It’s surprisingly clean tasting and soft to the bite, with a texture similar to squid that’s cooked just right. There’s a bit of gaminess, which is unavoidable since it’s offal after all, but it’s a gaminess with a good character.
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Getting into the Christmas mood with cake from Montreux Patisserie
When Christmas season comes along, Montreux churns out limited-edition festive cakes with interesting flavours. Such as the Cream Cheese Strawberry Sudachi that we bought this year. The design is minimalist, but there’s no mistaking the Santa vibes.
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The delightful ginger-infused dishes of Halia Restaurant
Our ginger adventure officially started with the Lemongrass & Ginger Prawn Salad. It was a riot of colours, with turmeric-coated prawns and pinkish-purple ginger flower dressing on top of a generous bed of green greens, yellow mangoes and red cherry tomatoes. The flavour was as exciting as it looked.
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Uncle Penyet and his smashed Indonesian food
We’re fans of Indonesian food, especially nasi goreng and sate, but there’s something about having our food violently smashed that makes ayam penyet taste just that little bit more delicious.
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We finally tried the vadai from The Original Vadai
Every few months or so, before the pandemic, a small pasar malam would pop up in our neighbourhood. Whenever it does, we would get our regular fix of deep-fried Indian vadai, with a complimentary side of whole green chillies.
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The sinfully sweet Turkish sweets of Shalaby Sweets
After spending an enjoyable eternity comparing the relative merits of each dessert and picking and choosing, we ended up with a wide assortment of kunafa, baklava and Turkish delights, weighing a total of 500 grams. Here’s what we bought that day. Don’t they look just so pretty sitting on a large white plate?
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The chicken satay at Rahim Muslim Food is sangat sedap
Pakcik did not disappoint, because the chicken satay was jinjja oishii! Which is a Korean/Japanese phrase that means sangat sedap, which is in turn Malay for “you absolutely have to travel to Ang Mo Kio to eat this”.
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Ondeh ondeh cake and other yummy kueh kuehs
We have a soft spot for Montreux Patisserie’s cakes, with the ondeh ondeh one being my particular weakness. I chalk it up to my love for Malay kueh kuehs, including the O.G. ondeh ondeh that inspired the eponymous cake.
It’s just so satisfying to chomp into a chewy mochi-like ball and having liquid gula melaka burst out, mixing with the soft pandan skin and coconut shavings for an intensely flavourful bite. While the cake version can’t replicate the explosion, it makes up for it with an authentic rendition of the complex flavours.
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Nasi padang is our happy meal
We discovered Butterscotch on foodpanda earlier this March when we were searching for new places to try, and since then we’ve made seven orders. Which works out to at least once a month, sometimes twice, and by now, we’ve tried almost all their dishes.
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Comfort food during these difficult times
The Wife needed to head out for a grocery run and since we were going to be out in the wild, we decided to have a late lunch first at our favourite mee rebus stall.
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