A bánh mì from O Banh Mi

I may have had a bánh mì from O Banh Mi prior to this but I'm not sure. Anyways, this was their pork chop bánh mì. Upsized. I don't have much references to what could be considered good ones but I though more vegetables would be nice. Those pickles were the only vegetables that were in the sandwich. Since I got this to go, I added sliced cheese and sprinkles of Tabasco to spruce up the flavour. Noice!

Ordering from New Ubin Seafood

The "circuit breaker" has allowed us me to experience first hand what food works for delivery and what doesn't work as well. Even though we've I've had our my own ideas on how different types of cooking take to delivery.

This was cze char lunch from New Ubin Seafood - we haven't eaten from them since their old days back in Sin Min.

Their crispy pork jowl wasn't so crispy after sweating through delivery in their plastic containers, but I suspect this isn't really crispy even if you had them freshly cooked. Crisp exterior yes, but I don't think they were meant to be crispy as much as meaty. It's pork jowl after all. 

Note to self : the miso gula Melaka sauce that came with the jowl was really good.

Between this and our recent episode with Hajah Maimunah, it was more fish roe than I normally eat in an average month. The sambal chinchalok gravy did look different from the last time we've had this dish. Dryer and more orange looking. It was still delicious. Wished there were more of that gravy and petai to go with the rice though.

Some baby kailan stir fried with garlic for our vegetable intake.

Cze char in generally survives food delivery pretty well.

Candlenut

Does a one Michelin Star meal still count if it was had through home delivery and not the restaurant? I don't know. This was our first experience with Candlenut - what many locals term as contemporary/refined atas Peranakan food. It is also the only Michelin starred Peranakan food in the world. 

Been wanting to try them for a while. Between the COMO Dempsey delivery platform and GrabFood, the difference in the total price inclusive of delivery was about 4 cents. Every dish with the exception of the rice costed the same - a little over $23 if it's from GrabFood and $20 from COMO Dempsey. The latter charged more for delivery so the ended up being equally expensive. 

I was curious about their Snake River Farm kurobuta neck satay. Charcoal grilled and glazed with kecap manis. Sweet like how I expected but not getting much from the grill. Maybe these were another one of those things that didn't take to delivery well. I didn't dislike it, but I wouldn't order them again.

Chap chye was chap chye. It was okay with a nice shrimpy sweetness. Vegetables were reasonably tender. Neither the best or the worst I've had. But - it was the most expensive one I've ever eaten.

The portions for their pong tauhu soup was tiny. On hindsight, it was sufficient. The broth packed a serious load of crustacean flavour infused with garlic. Loved the coarse texture of the meatballs with chunky bits of prawn. Nice.

What I enjoyed the most from the bunch of items we ordered was their blue swimmer crab curry. The menu mentioned turmeric, galangal and kaffir lime leaf. I thought I tasted a bit of lemongrass. The curry was pleasantly fruity and creamy. Very nice.

Dalgona Bananarama

I'm late to the Dalgona coffee game but I've had one at home recently with its ante upped with fork hand pureed banana. Here's the part where I mention the nostalgia stemming from the Banana Spin that I used to get from Spinelli. Man this was good!

Suckling pig briyani from Meatsmith Little India

Oddled this from Meatsmith Little India. I've been meaning to go back but it just never happened. Don't think it will happen for a while so we did a lunch delivery.

Pork briyani is a rarity. Not to mention a suckling pig briyani.

The menu said it was a portion for 2 but it looked liked it was good just for one. The rice was delicious. Flavourful without being too heavy from the spices and grease. Nice flavour from the cashews. The meat of the suckling pig was a little tough; skin was somewhere between crisp and hard. But I liked the smokiness infused in the meat.

$58 was kinda expensive for those portions though.

Good thing we tagged this with an order of gunpowder potatoes.

Ordering in from Muthu's Curry

Haven't had Muthu's Curry in while so we ordered in via our neighbourhood friendly GrabFood. I remember thinking quite well of them in the past. In retrospect (albeit a short one), the food was rather expensive. $84 before delivery charges.

That's prawns 65. The first of its kind we've had amongst the other 65s. We liked that the prawns were shelled. Unfortunately, the batter didn't survive the transit very well. Most of the crisp was lost. Might not have been the better item to order for food delivery. It didn't taste bad though.

Had some fish cutlets which were really more potatoes than fish. Samy's Curry makes better fish cutlets. 

This was their lamb chops ananas. Trivia - pineapples are known as ananas in most languages except English where they're called pineapples. The smoky lamb was well done and reasonably tender. The spice paste was nutty, savoury with a bit of heat and delicious. Wished they had used sweeter pineapples for this though. Note to self - one order is good for one since there're only two ribs.

We settled for their black daal because the ran out of the palak version. It's not bad, but there are other renditions which I prefer.

Naans were deflated. While Muthu's naans weren't exactly large and fluffy in the first place, these look sad. I was also sad that I couldn't taste much of the cheese or garlic from them. These definitely do not survive as well for home delivery as pizzas do.