Pink Guava Yakult w Rock Sugar Pearl Pink Guava Yakult ($5.20) w Rock Sugar Pearl ($1.10) ($6.30) My sister and I have covered pink guava drink base related drink for hollin lol. I didn't never tried yakult based drink tbh for hollin. The taste for yakult is not that strong that I expected that but I rarely taste pink guava except rock sugar pearl was slightly strong savoury taste.

Redemption Lychee Oolong Tea 荔枝乌龙 (S$4.90/ L) Hollin 蒜里 Address 🛖 : 190 Toa Payoh Central # 01-564, Singapore 🇸🇬 310190 Open 🕰️ : 10am - 9.30pm Website 🕸️ : https://www.hollingroup.com/

Dont get Taro pudding Thought the Taro pudding and drink tasted quite artificial. There wasn't much pudding too.

Japanese Burdock Tempura Udon ($14) Yummy! The udon was of good quality and quite qq, better than the average udon which doesn’t have as nice a bite to it. The soup was clear and light, and the burdock tempura was good too - crisp and the thin strips of burdock had a pleasant fibrousy texture, but was still very easy to eat. It was a little oily tho, but thankfully it didn’t leave a greasy aftertaste. The self-add-on toppings like shredded seaweed, spring onions, chili powder, and tempura bits was a nice touch, this way you can customise the type and amount of topping to your liking. I didn’t try the tempura bits but it looked quite crisp. Come before 11.45 or else the queues may get quite long!

Authentic Chewy Udon Hidden gem serving yummy chewy, springy udon that you can choose to be served w hot/cold dipping sauce. The fishcake was so good too. Will be back!

The First Halal Certified Udon Restaurant in Singapore The udon was very enjoyable because of its smooth and chewy texture! The soup was clear and flavourful and I mixed in some chilli powder for good measure. Read more: https://www.misstamchiak.com/fu-men-udon-and-donburi-restaurant/

Crab Meat Curry Thai crab meat dry curry, the curry is typical Thai curry which is not too strong, generous crab meat cooked with eggs that creates this silkiness texture, with some chunks of bell peppers, i had it with omelette rice topped with kaylan steams. Yummy...Sublime.. so glad i tried this one! You should ask them to reduce the saltiness a bit if you don’t like things to be too salty like me. Apart from that, if you are a crab meat and curry lover, this is something you have to try!

String Beans With Minced Pork Don’t usually take string bean as they have a taste that i don’t fancy. But there isn’t any from this dish and paired it nicely with the minced pork.

Stir Fry Beansprout Witb Preserved Vegetable A piece of very simple dish that tasted so homely! Preserved vegetable add an additional dimension of preserved taste to the beansprout.

👉Black Sesame Cheese Bun👈 All the way from Austria since 1919, this traditional bakery set sail and arrived in Singapore early this year with their Signature Cheese Quarter Buns. Looking great behind the transparent containers, I decided to go for this instead of their famous Cheese Bun Original. Absolutely love the gooey cheese filling in the bun that left me wanting more😋. At $5.80, it might be slightly pricey but I guess it’s still worth trying!

Salted Yolk Pumpkin Danish $3.80 Only the center area has the filling, crust not flaky enough

Matcha Cheese Bun Matcha was thick. Cheese inside was thick. Bread was nothing special. Overall quite indulgent so it kinda justified the higher price tag.

Char Siew Chee Cheong Fun I love their wide variety of CCF here. The skin was smooth and thin. I think abit chewy as compared to the other ones i had. The sauce had the sesame fragrance. Their mains was also quite good as well but portion might be abit small. So it is just nice to add on a plate of CCF for sharing.

Cantonese Comfort Food The queue here on a week day can be very long and most difficult to get a table. The Chee Cheong Fun here is made from steamed rice flour slurry coated on cloth, in order words, Guangdong style. Although it is not too bad, it is a pale shadow of the original restaurant in Guangzhou. The porridge is also average. Star of the lunch was the deep fried meat balls that were still piping hot and crispy on the outside with succulent minced meat on the inside. I think I’ll wait for COVID to go away and go back for my cheong fun fix in Guangdong province.

Wide variety of chee cheong fun! Chanced upon this shop after my Saturday morning workout a few weeks back. As the eatery has half its menu offering a wide range of different chee cheong fun i.e steamed rice roll, I knew I couldn't miss out on this. I ordered the fresh prawn egg roll ($7.50) and to be very honest, I've not paid so much for a chee cheong fun before lol. Didn't think it was especially mind blowing but it was a well made chee cheong fun, with the silky rice roll and crunchy fresh prawns. For those who wants to deviate from the usual char siew or prawn chee cheong fun typically offered in dimsum stalls, this is probably the place to go. Some of the more unique variety of chee cheong fun that caught my eye were vegan roll, pork and liver roll, and beef roll. Rating: 7.5 / 10

Asari Clam Udon My to-order (いつもの) dish. The asari is plump and sweet, releasing so much of that dashi into the soup that it becomes surprisingly addictive.

Tomato Beef Udon ($12.20) and Broccoli ($2) Comfort food. The tomato broth is thick, udon is just the right chewiness, and everything is as you'd expect. I enjoyed this, especially with Entertainer 25% off (prices shown are before discount).

miso pork rice with chicken karaage ($7.50) portion was just nice, ingredients were sweet & tasty! got this for a steal using the fave app

I was so tired from work that particular day that we walked into the wrong restaurant for jajangmyeon, and we ended up in Hong Jjajang instead of our intended restaurant to patronize. Is it just me or does anyone realizes that many of the Korean restaurants, especially those selling jajangmyeon, along Tanjong Pagar Road are decked in red and black? Putting the exterior décor aside, the Korean fried chicken at Hong Jjajang is probably one of the few times that we did not finish or enjoy. So much so, the Korean fried chicken pales in comparison to the jajangmyeon. All the terms that should be not be associated with Korean fried chicken is evident here; very dry meat, thick and hard batter, sauce is too sweet and the inside flavour tastes very similar to a KFC chicken. The jajangmyeon however, fared much better for its chewy noodle texture and the black bean sauce is flavourful with a generous portion of onions in it. ••••••••••••••••••• ✨ Hong Jjajang 📍 93 Tanjong Pagar Road, Singapore 088514 🍴[Self Funded]

Kimchi Pajjeon- $20 Crispy outside, not too mushy inside. This is a carbo-bomb! When I was young-er, the Tanjong Pagar stretch of Korean restaurants really kept me going after nights out in town. It’s like a Korean-styled prata fix. This feeds 3-4 pax sharing btw.

Jjajangmyeon Set A- $42++ Whoever thinks that the Jajjangmyeon/ Jjangpong set is meant for 2 pax is sorely mistaken! It will take at least 2-3 hungry male adults to finish both noodle dishes and the fried pork/ chicken. The peas really made the dish for me! Well-played. Mix it quick lest the noodles coagulate into a lump of dough.

🧅🍄 Sourdough Classic #Bialy ($5) There is a hit and then there is a miss! This one falls into the latter category. The bialy supposed to be the healthier version of bagel with its lighter texture. Somehow it's quite chewy and greasy at the base. It could have had more desirable texture to have this bialy fresh out of the oven. However, when checking its oily base, I am not too keen to reheat and dispel it. The generous amount of sliced potato, onion & poppyseed gives a soft pat on my shoulder, maybe it's not my bialy day. 🤔

🥐 Sourdough Almond Croissant ($5) At 8:30 am sharp, people are already lining up to buy #woodlandssd freshly baked goods. So many sourdough choices to pick from. SD almond croissant is unlike anywhere else croissants. With denser texture, it tastes more like kouign-amann covered with crunchy sliced almonds. Just take a mouthful of this with your cuppa, the slightly sour full body of 🥐 goes so well with sweet almond paste. 😍

Lime Buttermilk Bundt Cake ($5.50) Cake was moist with a coarser crumb, wasn't as limey in the middle, but the bottom was super limey and zesty, makes u pucker but I like supersour stuff so this was great. The icing was v sugary but also v limey, tasted like lozenges for some reason. Honestly could do without the icing, it’s too sweet. But I guess it’s the standard bundt glaze. Overall not bad, would want to try the other bundt flavours!

Tropicana (Part of $25Nett Burpplebeyond deal + Top Ups for change of drinks) Call this “white trash food” but I loved my Sunday “lunch” on a hot afternoon recently that was sweetened with Burpplebeyond. Paying $30++ for a coffee, matcha latte and 2 smoothie bowls I was still pleased despite this not being the usual burpple 1 for 1 deal. My Tropicana smoothie bowl had a deliciously smooth and rich blend of the stipulated tropical fruits (mangoes, banana pineapples) together with coconut milk. As crunches there is also a good portion of granola with nuts. True to its picture fresh, although tart, green kiwi slices and cubed white dragonfruits were garnished on this beautiful bowl. We want to come back for the açai breeze.

Double Toast & Homemade Lemonade (Weekdays Only) (~save $30) The Social Space’s menu is simple but honestly good! Expect feel-good breakfast or brunch staples in the form of open-face toasts served on chunky slices of toasted French sourdough as well as smoothie bowls which come in natural coconut husks.

back here because 10/10 vibes i really love the vibes here 🥰 anw after trying most of the toast i like the eggplant miso one the most!

Nasi Ulam 6.2nett For Takeaway Intensely aromatic, while not lacking in umami. The sambal belachan? was unique, jam like texture and while you expect it to be bitter, it was but a hint. Doesn't go easy on the heat ofc but it was sweet and very bright. The chili really elevated the nasi ulam and the heat creeps up on you. First time trying this and find that it's absolutely delicious, despite the fear that it might be all aromatics and no flavour just from the picture

Nasi Ulam Nasi Ulam is such a rarity these days. I am sure it being terribly labourious to prepare is the main reason for that. And its limited availability leads to less awareness of this Peranakan rice salad, which equals to less demand. Sigh.... Anyway, if you miss eating this classic, or want to give it a try (in case one day it goes the way of the dinosaurs), you can get a good rendition from "Chendol Melaka", a little stall inside the coffeeshop at the corner of Upper East Coast Road and Jalan Tua Kong. Besides selling their namesake, they also have Nasi Ulam made the traditional way. Which means the rice packs an incredible amount of fragrance and flavours, thanks to the copious amounts of finely sliced and chopped up herbs and spices. This list includes laksa leaf, torch ginger flower, lemongrass, kaffir lime leaf and many more. The vegetables, such as the four-cornered bean and long bean, are also cut into fine pieces before being tossed with the flakes of cooked fish and fluffy rice grains. Served at room temperature, the Nasi Ulam is wonderful eaten on its own. You can however, add on some of their home-made sambal belachan if you like your food spicier. I think it's shiok either way. As previously mentioned, this is not easy to make. Hence, quantity is limited. I recommend going to the stall early to avoid disappointment.

Iced chendol with durian, red bean and glutinous rice [$2.60] There are three basic ingredients to chendol - the green jelly like wormy thing called chendol, gula melaka (brownish coconut sugar) and coconut milk. First, coconut milk should be fresh for that fragrance, gula melaka should be thick and natural and not artificially sweetened, and most importantly the greenish chendol must be authentic and genuinely made from pandan, so it's tender with subtle pandan flavour. Chendol should look dirty green (don't eat any chendol that looks bright green, it's not the real stuff). 🔸 This stall has its "chendol" (only the green stuffs) done right. In fact very well. The gula melaka was too watery and the fragrance from the coconut milk was lacking. Overall better than most definitely, but not good enough to deserve its reputation as one of the best in Singapore.