Breakfast Club, Tiong Bahru Plaza

I remember Breakfast Club when they used to be at Holland Village. That folded before we could visit and they've recently emerged at Tiong Bahru Plaza taking over the unit that used to be Yaowarat Thai Kway Chap. Both are under the same owner who also runs Joji's Diner.

We were here a couple of minutes before the opening hour (9am) and sat in the dark while we waited. It was 20 minutes later before they were ready to take orders followed by another 25 before we got our food. And we were second in line.

These guys were obviously not ready for that 9am and they should just rebrand as Late Breakfast Club because I'm pretty sure half the country eating breakfast that morning have already had theirs while we were wai.......

Nevermind.

They're cheaper than most breakfast plates out there. Then being said, this has to be viewed from a lens where many people here are suckers for expensive breakfast plates and many restaurants know it. Totally overpriced but it makes some of us feel good to geotag a photo while at it. This one was...edible. Just. Hash brown was totally grease logged, mushrooms were from a can and that egg just looked unnatural. Bacon portion was...conclusions can be drawn from the picture. 

I know what I paid for when I paid more.

Another spicy dry megamen and a braised pork belly update at Brothers Ramen

I wanted to get the bellymen from Brothers Ramen (一, 二 , 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八) today but found out from them that it's no longer on the menu because they didn't have the capacity to braise pork bellies anymore. 😢 So I ended up with the usual go to - the spicy dry megamen with extra garlic. 

Today was also my first time noticing the queue outside the shop on a Friday evening.

Bee hoon at Faith Nasi Lemak

Again, I was unsuccessful at getting nasi lemak from Faith Nasi Lemak just like the last time. I was mulling over the duration of the queue between that and the bee hoon and the bee hoon won. It's ok, not great but I noticed another stall which looked like it might be a better bet. Chicken wings were pretty good though. I'll definitely try that nasi lemak the next time.

Black sesame toast from Coffee Break

These black sesame toasts from Coffee Break were not bad tasting. Was there any thing about them I wished was done better? Hell yeah. More butter than those measly slices would have been great.

Cuo Cuo You Yu (脞脞有鱼), Kopitiam @ Tiong Bahru Plaza

Came across this stall in the newly renovated Kopitiam at Tiong Bahru Plaza (#03-101 Tiong Bahru Plaza, 302 Tiong Bahru Road). While it looked like there were some variety going on with the bak chor mee on their menu, it's mostly the same stuff in a different form. Like the sambal ho liao (which has the same ingredients as what's in my soup) probably uses the same chilli for the noodles.

Chilli/sambal was deliciously piquant and the soup's pretty good. One can also sense them trying desperately to differentiate their offerings by naming their meatballs...solefish meatballs. They're not bad tasting but we've definitely had better. That being said, the chilli/sambal kinda dominated the flavour of the bowl so I'm gonna have to come back and try it without just to see what the noodles are like. This was one of those stalls where I liked the mee kia (they use the flat variety) more than the mee pok.

6th Avenue Nasi Lemak, Lengkok Bahru

6th Avenue Nasi Lemak (#01-387, 55 Lengkok Bahru) was just next door to Sim Lim Square Bak Chor Mee. Another basmati rice nasi lemak. Pretty decent tasting though I would have liked more salt in that rice to bring out the coconut flavour. For some reason, that turmeric fried chicken didn't come across as freshly fried as I would have imagined at 8-ish in the morning. Not bad tasting though. 

What I thought paired nicely was the sweet sambal, which wasn't annoyingly sweet, with the rice.