Let's eat Prata Saga Sambal Berlada

The signboard for Prata Saga Sambal Berlada has changed. The cleaner looking update has in big and blue the words jom makan which translates from Malay to 'let's eat'.

That's their prata bom - unrecognizeable I know since it's just prata with condensed milk. There's a light crisp on the surface and yummy where there's condensed milk; though said condensed milk was not evenly distributed.

Got a double cheese prata. I don't know how much cheese there is usually on the regular cheese prata version so I can't tell if this was really double of that. But it was cheesy for sure. Salty, milky kind of cheesy which also paired nicely with the dalcha and the sambal. I'm thinking this would be great with sugar as well.

Healthy Soba IKI, 100AM

Healthy Soba IKI (一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九, 十, 十一, 十二, 十三, 十四, 十五, 十六, 十七, 十八, 十九) has a new shop at 100AM (#02-15&28 100AM, 100 Tras Street). We came over to support Noguchi-san. Quality of their noodles is still as good over here.

Current seasonal soba comes with hotaru ika. The broth was nothing short of refreshing. What I did not see coming with this bowl, was that one of the initial flavour that registered was actually olive oil. Healthy Soba IKI has always used a nice fruity olive oil.

Their donburi has at least a couple of new options. This one was mentaiko tororo. Delicious with a splash of shoyu and some wasabi.

More cakes from The Homme Baker

Back at The Homme Baker. We found out how they made their mandarin orange cake so orange-y today.

Their spicy bak kwa cheesecake is no longer available. We got the dark chocolate banoffee which was not bad tasting as well on the account of the caramel and banana flavour.

I like the lavender lemon cake. Nice lemon curd, a good hit of lavender and dense crumbly texture.

This one was a toffee cashew cake. Dense looking but pretty soft. Was nice for a while on the account of the toffee and cashew but it wore out pretty fast. Was hoping for those cashews to be more crunchy.

Mutton murtabak from Brinda's

So I got a mutton murtabak from Brinda's. It was a lot less crisp than what I was expecting. Scratch that, there's no crisp at all. The skin was soft and a little chewy. There's minced mutton and egg but I don't actually know if there were any onions. Did not taste bad if you didn't mind it that way.

Ganjang gejang and the pork set at The Gogijip (고깃집)

I've never noticed the crab at The Gojigip. But I guess it made sense since ganjang gejang is featured more prominently in their menu these days. Anyways this was a dinner with their pork set and ganjang gejang.

But first some makgeolli.

Pork set which featured Iberico collar, jowl and belly was decent.

Kimchi jjigae's okay. It's a nice break between the greasy meat.

Someone put some thought into bowling this though. 对吗 Vicky?

Crabs were okay and I think the quality isn't top notch.

First time getting bibim naenmyeon. I guess it tasted like how I imagined them.

Gyeran jjim was unexpectedly tasty today. Must be because of those burnt edges which I normally don't like.

Not a fan of their marinated chicken so we won't be getting it the next time.

Surrey Hills Grocer, One Holland Village

Surrey Hills Grocer opened up at Holland Village (#03-29 One Holland Village Mall, 7 Holland Village Way, tel  : +65 8189 6372) recently and the venue's pet friendly. All things considered, it's a good place if one enjoys canine voyeurism which involves spontaneous butt sniffing greeting exchange between dogs. 

One of the main motivations coming here was definitely not the queue we had to endure nor the chance to catch glimpses of many a cute corgi within petting range but the tapas from MoVida from Melbourne which I was curious about.

We tried the anchoa which featured Cantabrian anchovy on crouton and smoked tomato sorbet. It was for a brief moment refreshing from the sorbet but ended up being mostly salty because of the anchovies. Also kinda awkward to eat with utensils or with hands because those thin crotons crumbled easily while the anchovies don't yield as kindly with the sorbet melting.

That's the pez real with smoked kingfish, pine nut sorbet and pine nut gazpacho. Sorbet's tangy...which I did not expect out of a pine nut sorbet. Not bad tasting.

Tartar on almond & horseradish cracker and pickled turnips. I could only taste the beef tartare. The rest were all textures.

Pleasantly surprised by their orange caramel bacon benny. There's an orange caramel fish sauce glaze on that thick cut of belly bacon - that was nice. The Hollandaise sauce was also orangey and buttery - found that quite addictive. Too little glaze and sauce methinks. We asked for more of the Hollandaise and they obliged.

Wagyu truffled donut was pretty overpriced in retrospect. Sauce on the side tasted like a truffled mushroom soup. Meat was passable as long as one doesn't think wagyu - it was properly seared on the exterior with a medium doneness on the inside. What was really bad about it was the lack of salt that could have brought out the flavour of the meat. 

Menu also described a Poolish donut. Didn't know what it was. Was thinking it would be sugared or glazed but it was neither.

Something did not agree with me for their honey earl grey wild lavender cake. It was kept somewhere sufficiently cold that the lavender infused buttercream had texture like cold butter, not buttercream. I like buttercream to have texture like cream. Leaving this out for a half hour just to let it get there did not make sense.

Yuzu sparkling coffee's delicious. Yuja tea marmalade, coffee and sparkling water. Nice! 👍🏼