珍珠坊香港烧臘 (Zhen Zhu Fang Roasted Delights), People's Park Complex Food Centre

How I ended up getting food from here today was because of irritation. I was searching for roast meat (烧腊) stalls at People's Park online. I was sure there must have been at least a a handful there. Most of the search results were either Toh Kee or 珍珠坊香港烧臘 (#01-1098 People's Park Complex Food Centre, 32 New Market Road) with numerous mentions of them being recommended by the Michelin Guide. So I decided to try.

Here's roast pork, duck and char siew. For some reasons, I had to repeat my order 4 times before the guy in the stall would stop confirming my order. I had also repeatedly mentioned during those 4 times that I wanted 半肥 for the char siew but I ended up getting lean portions anyway. *sigh...*  I'd classify the roasts as decent/edible even though this takeaway might not be the best showcase of how their food might have tasted compared to eating over there. The hard boiled egg was nice though. So tender and I thought it was cooked just right.

Note to self - ask for more sauce the next time.

Got a bowl of wanton soup because I wanted to know if theirs were good. The dumplings were quite meaty and pretty tasty. I saw the guy in the stall carefully scissoring the stalk of vegetable into the soup. Don't know what vegetable this was but it sure was tender.

Unhealthy vegetarian noodles and otah breakfast

Vegetarian noodles from Seng Kee. Not so vegetarian anymore because I had it with otah which were gotten from just next door to them. Those otah were okay-ish generic. Also the first time having them with their curry. Mee doesn't absorb curry as well as bee hoon but I guess enough of it clung onto the noodles for flavour. Pretty greasy but surprisingly, it didn't keep me full for as long as I had thought they would.

Prata tiga telur banjir (three egg flood) breakfast

Got this recently from ABC Food Corner. Three egg pratas banjir styled. Banjir if you didn't know means 'flood' in Malay. In this context, it was flooded with a curry of choice (I picked chicken) before they packed it for take away allowing the curry to be absorbed into the prata. Not a picture of healthy eating but what the heck, it's an uncommon treat for me.

Phat Burger Bro., Valley Point

Heard about these guys (#01-17 Valley Point, 491 River Valley Road, tel : +65 9385 1935) recently.

Got their Single Phat Bro because I wasn't sure if I would like them. Pretty tasty burger with a nice crusty patty that was properly salted. 

There's lettuce, some caramelized onions, tomato and pickles as well. Bun didn't hold up so well from all the juice/moisture from take away. Got this with less sauce so that I could get more from the meat minus distractions. Speaking of the meat, I think they got the doneness at medium well. 

I liked their fries. Reminded me of those from Five Guys and Les Bouchons because they looked and tasted like naturally fried potatoes. Meaty and full of potato flavour with skin on.

169 Hainanese Chicken Rice (169 海南鸡饭), Chinatown Food Centre

This stall used to be called Super Mummy Hainanese Chicken Rice. For some reasons a couple or so years ago, they changed their name to 169 Hainanese Chicken Rice (#02-169 Chinatown Complex Market and Food Centre, 335 Smith Street). They've always had a sizeable queue going on which was a major deterrence but it didn't look that bad today.

This was poached ji wei (鸡尾) with chicken livers. A heart came with those livers too. And if you hadn't yet been clued in, they don't do roast/fried chickens, only the white ones.

Their 鸡尾 had a nice meat to bone ratio. That and also maybe because of the mediocre rice which I've recently had from Margaret Drive Chicken Rice, I found this a lot more satisfying. Really dug the flavour from the sesame oil on the rice, those creamy livers and pretty tender chicken. Pretty sure the chicken would have been also more enjoyable if I didn't have to take away but I take what I can get for now.

Western Hut, Havelock Road Food Centre

These guys had mentioned on their social media that their chef was the person that used to be at No. 1 Western Food at Tanglin Halt. While I recalled that it was an old couple that was running the stall there, the guy at the kitchen here (#01-09 Havelock Road Cooked Food Centre, 22A/B Havelock Road) was a young chap. They're located just next to Du Du Cooked Food.

This was their chicken cutlet with aglio olio pasta. Tasted like the same flattened chicken thigh with a crispy breading that didn't have excessive grease. Reminded me of the schnitzel from Marché if you could believe it. It was also an opportunity for me again to understand their sauce which I noticed this time round to contain cinnamon. Still don't think much of that sauce so I summoned my hot sauce on standby.

A few days later...

Tried their chicken chop. Pretty decent with a light crisp on the skin side. It was salted sufficiently that I didn't need their sauce. I'll see if I can get more coleslaw if I don't want the beans or even the fries the next time.