Immigrants @ Joo Chiat Road

One Friday night, had a dinner with a couple of close friends of mine, and ended up in Joo Chiat Road. Not the most happening of places, but seems like a very interesting joint.

They serve peranakan tapas - yes, interesting concepts. Food was yummy on top to boot, and it come with a big selection of exotic beers. :)

Stuffed Chicken Wing - 5 is too small a portion

Buah Kalau fried rice - with this sort of name, how can it not taste good?

Otak Otak

Roasted Pork in some peranakan style - pardon my poor iphone 4 resolution, but it was very yummy.

Bumbu @ Kandahar Street

Lunch at Bumbu with colleagues, turn out to be a charming experience. Though not as exquisite as True Blue, Bumbu's food definately has tons of flavours, and has a normal peranankan decor feel. ( True Blue can feel like a museum sometimes).

Love the place, love the food, and totally affordable. Make your bookings beforehand, coz its often crowded.

Nice quaint Decor - love the tiles & tikkat

Keropo as amuse bouche ! :)

Prawns with Pomelo salad - nice, yummy and a bit Thai .

Ngoh Hiang - I loved it, cooked just like how grandmothers would do it.

Coffee Chicken - I supposed this is a Javanese Peranankan dish. The meat is tender but coffee taste not too obvious

Exciting dish - deep fried Kang Kong with sweet sour sauce - yummylicious

Sambal Kang Kong - very normal

Buah Kaluak -so yummy, I love this dish so much......the spice and everything that goes with it

Tahu Telok - fried tofu with sweet peanut sauce....this is so very delicious

Deep-fried Oatmeal squid - can't eat too much squid, but it sure is very tasty

Chendol - Anything with gula melaka is great........so this cannot go too wrong....

True Blue@Armenian Street

Singapore has a lot of good food, a lot of them in hawker centers, some in nice fine restaurants, and peranakan food is always so so yummy, usually housed in quaint little restaurants.

TrueBlue looks more like a living musuem than a restaurant, but it just happen to serve food in a nice relaxing ambience...food is rather the unusual peranakan fair, though a bit pricy. Only course that wasn't tasty is probably the otak otak - too spicy and too dry.

Menu in the design of a Peranakan Door - Ingenue

Living Museum & restaurant all in one....even the crockery & cutlery has a elegant feel to it.

Banana Flower salad - very good, unusual taste and texture

And this has got to be the best Kueh Pie Tee I ever tasted. I suspect they fried the pie skin themselves to give it 'ol so crispy' texture

Coriander Duck - not spicy, very nice duck taste

Buah Kalau - this is soo delicious, the black nut with chicken is sooo nice, the curry is fantastic with rice...just pure yum

Water spinach ( maybe I forgot the name) - but its great, its crunchy and reminds me of all the wild vegetables I ate in Taiwan, natural, crunchy and wholesome

Otak-Otak  - too dry, too spicy and very expensive, just skip this dish when you are there.

More updated dishes on my 2nd visit to True Blue!

This is sambal Potato leaves.... the sambal curry sauce is seriously yummy.

Chap Chai - mixed vegetables with vermicelli stir-fried...this is sooo old school and so yummy at the same time! Great dish to order to break the spiciness of the meal

Meat & crab Ball soup - this is really yummy. I tried it even though there's crab inside of it.

Wild Pepper Leaf Omelette - name sounds exciting, you can taste bits of a strange tasting herb...but the omelette is a bit dry.....not really a very good dish.

Beef Rendang - a bit tough though....but nicely spiced out.....ok for foreign guest...but for very difficult local foodies....I wouldn't expect this to be their standard.