Paru Power! cow lungs chips

Paru chips? Why not?! 😋

Never realized such a thing even existed. They're spiced, crispy like fish crackers and has a beefy flavour like paru. Not bad at all if you like paru.

Found them at this shop (#01-42 Golden Landmark Shopping Complex, 390 Victoria Street).

Mutton dum briyani from Victory Restaurant

The last time we were here at Victory for their deer murtabak, we noticed the sign advertising their mutton dum briyani which is only available on Fridays. We also learnt that those are not available for the whole day because there's a limited quantity that's prepared on that day and by the time the Muslim prayer crowd is done sometime in the afternoon, it'll probably be sold out.

The official word from them is that they start selling the mutton dum briyani at 11am. We arrived a bit earlier and by the time we were finished with it, it was just about 11am.

Not bad tasting. There were lots of flavour in the rice that includes flavour from fried shallots, toasty cashews and raisins. Would be nice if there were more cashews and raisins methinks. Meat was tender but not fork tender that it was easily removed from the bone. Still needed some work to scrape them off. Definitely worth trying if one is in the vicinity around that time but I won't go out of the way for it again.

Had an order of their telur bawang which we also stumbled upon previously. I've had it another time since then before today. The prata looked a little different each time but it's still a good tasting prata with egg and onion. Bits of crispy browned parts and a lot of chew in the dough. Personally, the gravy to get for this is the fish curry.

Iekei styled ramen from Ramen Dining Keisuke Tokyo

Iekei ramen has been popping up in recent times. I had one at Kamoshita earlier in the year and a few months after, at Brothers Ramen. It's not a new style - from what I read, this style of ramen originated in 70s by a former truck driver Yoshimura Minoru in Yokohama so it's been around. We just haven't been getting them until recent years.

This is Keisuke's rendition. Chewy yellow noodles with a shoyu tonkotsu broth, spinach, seaweed and a slice of charshu. I thought the broth was nicely done with a mellow savoury of shoyu paired with the richness from the tonkotsu. It got better after crushing a few cloves of garlic into them. There was also a container of sunomono (pickled cucumbers) that came with the order which you could have with the accompanied bowl of rice. I did half the rice with it and the other half with the leftover broth.

Tonkatsu by Ma Maison, Tiong Bahru Plaza

Tonkatsu by Ma Maison has opened at Tiong Bahru Plaza (#01-109 Tiong Bahru Plaza, 302 Tiong Bahru Road, tel : +65 6252 1512). Menu's smaller than the one at Mandarin Gallery but if it's just the regular tonkatsu that one is looking for, the range is pretty much there.

Standards are undoubtedly there. Look at how moist the rosu katsus were beneath the golden brown panko crust.

There's ham katsu with cheese. Tasted like how I thought it with a bonus cheese pull from the mozzarella inside.

Rice is served in small pots unlike their other shops which generally comes in bowls. Couldn't help but feel that the multigrain rice was less multigrain-y than we remember it.

Houjicha obanyaki from 108 Matcha Saro

Nice hojicha flavoured one at 108 Matcha Saro. Mochi skin variety so it's a little chewy. This stall has proven to be reliable for the quality of their delicious tea flavoured confectionary.

米粉面 dry from Da Dong Prawn Noodles (大東蝦麵)

This was the $10 bowl from Da Dong. Enjoyable though it didn't feel quite as impressive as the first time we had their prawn noodle. Perhaps we're past that initial charm. It is still good though.