HJH Maimunah

 Start of the school holidays!

This Malay eatery has outlets in food courts island wide. I finally get to order my Nasi Ambeng platter from this place for home delivery. Pricing is also the most reasonable at almost half of my other orders.

Best part is this place has malay desserts and kueh that we all love soo much! I ordered a mix of malay kueh, goreng pisang and jongkong that is liquid creams of pandan, gula melaka and coconut milk.

The pre-bottled drinks are all syrup mixes in either clear with some sort of fruit or milky mixed with condensed milk. No hot drinks or brews though.

Side dish of lemak pucuk ubi or tapioca leaves stewed in coconut milk that is not commonly found here. This nasi ambeng platter has the usual stuff you find @ food courts like rendang, ayam lemak chili padi (chicken in coconut & chilis), begedel (potato cutlet), achar (pickled veges), ikan bilis kacang (fried tiny fish & peanuts), serunding (grated fried coconut with spices), sambal goreng jawa (tofu cubes & green beans stir-fried), paru belado (beef lung), terung belado (brinjal)

Zaffron Kitchen

It was Vesak Day this past week.

Zaffron Kitchen has a few eateries located inside shopping centers island wide. This place has all types of fruit lassis and even marsala chai, a new obsession for me to try all the marsala chai's in different Indian restaurants coz its always different.

My order of tandoori mix grill with an assortment of naan bread. It comes with a mint coriander dip and lemon wedges that I didn't squeeze coz its sour enough already. I like the bbq taste of grilled meat, there is fish, mince lamb and 2 types of chicken.

Then there is butter chicken with briyani rice that comes with tadka dal and jaipuri style mixed vegetables. The curry gravy is really everything and each of these dishes taste very different from each other.

Padi @ Bussorah

It was Mother's Day this last weekend.

This nasi padang place is located at Kampong Glam near Masjid Sultan. I ordered one of their mandi rice platters for group, that is more middle eastern rather than Indonesian. This place has all sorts of family platters.

I also ordered several side dishes of siput sedut (green curry snails), goreng pisang kicap chili api (fried bananas in spicy black sweet sauce) and their signature famous char kway teow (sweet Malaysian hawker version).

Drinks are iced chocolates and iced coffees. I really like the dry bbq in the mandi platter as well as the zaatar spice on the onions & purple cabbage. Must be what safari in the middle east tastes like, only I don't have to travel there to eat it.

Pagi Sore Indonesian Restaurant

Double public holidays this week, Labour Day and Hari Raya Puasa.

Ordering home delivery from my favorite Indonesian nasi padang place. The steamed white rice here is nasi putih that comes wrapped like a dumpling. The crisps are the slightly bitter belinjo that goes well with sambal belacan. 

Ikan Otah (fish terrine in asian spices) is actually an entire fish fillet covered in otah spices and steamed in coconut milk. Angus Beef Rendang that comes with a salad and Chicken Bali that is sold by the kg in a platter.

Tauhu Telor (deep fried tofu omelette) soaked in rojak-like sauce. Sambal Kangkong a little more sour and spicy than the usual chinese zhichar stall version. House Chendol that is not to be missed. I didn't order the other drinks though.

Suk's Thai Kitchen

Suk's Thai Kitchen serves Chiang Rai cuisine and has quite a variety of dishes on its menu. I ordered the spicy minced pork salad, the seafood salad and the papaya salad to mix into a giant salad bowl and it was good. That's 3 dishes at SGD$50 when just 1 big bag from Thailand street stalls cost under USD$10. Still have to mix it myself!

I ordered a second time from this place mainly for the turmeric tom yum chicken soup. I ordered main courses grilled pork shoulder and krapow seafood, as well as appetizers pork chitterlings and prawn crackers with red and green sauce.

The tomato mince meat red sauce for the pork chitterlings tastes more like Italian pasta sauce (that I mixed into the krapow seafood coz it was really spicy). The chilli dip that came with the grilled pork shoulder turned out really well with the pork chitterlings.

Turmeric tom yum soup is quite Indian as are the lime sodas, soo excited to try these foods that are new to me. Other than that Suk's Thai Kitchen actually tastes like the Thai food I used to have on holiday in Thailand.

Thai iced coffee that is really strong and not as sweet as the tea version. They have 2 types of lime sodas here, salted or rose and both are equally refreshing. The drinks here are pretty good, am really happy with it.

DIY Seafood Platter

Ordered more seafood and gonna try to make my own seafood platter. Ordering a raw seafood platter from Greenwood Fish Market would cost $110 + $10 delivery. That's just slightly more than what I paid the seafood supplier and I have to put the condiments together myself.

This cooked seafood platter is much cheaper at just $90. It came wrapped in a bow with a "thank you for ordering with us" card. Grilled fish, grilled prawns, deep-fried soft shell crabs, oysters rockerfella, scallops mentaiyaki sitting on a bed of salad.

There are mussels in lemon sauce, clams in marinara sauce, buttered toast, 3 types of sauces to drizzle on the seafood. Everything was delicious, especially the grilled fish. You can even eat up the salad leaves after.

Making my own seafood platter with a can of jumbo lump crab cake and a few dozen fresh oysters that need to be shucked. I used a butter knife that is not sharp so I don't cut myself while shucking oysters. There is a packet of prawn rice rolls that I am gonna save for another time.

As much as I like eating raw seafood, I can't really eat much of it in one sitting. I am using up lots of fresh coriander and chives for the sauces, gonna make crab salad rolls and oyster omelette for dinner tonight.