Soup Teochew kway teow mee from Ah Hor Teochew Kway Teow Mee, situated in a coffeeshop on Verdun Road near City Square Mall. The main dish itself is comforting and good on its own but damn, that chilli is so unbelievably magical it was likely to have been concocted by…
Fish soup noodles from Ka Soh (Swee Kee Fishhead Noodle House). The fish stock boasts to have high levels of protein, calcium and collagen. It supposedly includes no milk, its whiteness stemming from all the boiled fish bone goodness. All I know is that the stock tastes wondrously comforting and rich,…
Wanton Mee ($5.50). The famous wanton mee from Kok Kee hasn’t changed one bit since it shifted a short distance to its new home at 27 Foch Road. The char siew and wantons are still mere concubines to the Majesty that is the killer combination of Kok Kee’s secret sauce,…
Laksa Supreme – prawns, beancurd puffs, quail eggs, calamari balls and homemade sambal chilli. Essentially the laksa you love, but with fancy plastic surgery from a clinic in Paragon and a Ferragamo headband. The laksa broth was suitably light, and I loved the beancurd puffs which swell marvelously into wet,…
Claypot Mee Tai Mak. Was recommended this by fellow Burppler Julius Lim and for that he deserves a candy bar as this was all kinds of glorious. There was the unmistakeable “wok hei” smokiness, cut vegetables in every spoonful which provided that crunch factor, and gravy so gooey, warm and…
Abalone noodle with salt baked chicken thigh. The noodles were nicely springy, but the overall experience generally felt pretty pedestrian. The salt baked chicken thigh is clearly the star, its salty goodness and accompanying jus being the sort of thing one walks ten minutes in the sweltering heat to taste.…
Minced meat noodles. Very much like the ubiquitous Llaollao, the item on offer is yummy and well-executed for what it is, but somewhere out there bitchy pixies are gesticulating and giggling at me like Harajuku schoolgirls for wasting precious moments queueing for something that’s only moderately nice when there are…