Jalan Jaya, Kota Kinabalu

Melt in your mouth goodness! This is one of the best pork trotter I had as the meat is firmly intact, well flavored and only melt in your mouth with the pork rind which does not give any unwanted greasiness. The 滷汁 is simply fantastic with the right level of savoury with just a hint of sweetness.

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This soup Bee Hoon checked all the boxes: clear “fragrant” (I will explain this) broth, lots of spring onion and coriander, spicy but more importantly savory chilli sauce, smooth silky rice noodle, fresh ingredients - you can literally taste the hand-made freshness of the fish paste! Added additional topping of 福州丸 Fook Chew Fishball with Pork fillings. And if all these are just not enough, this warm bowl of fabulous goodness comes with a shot of 花雕酒 Chinese HuaDiao wine that you should not hesitate to add to the broth, the aroma (hence the soup is fragrant) and flavors just shot through the roof!

Papa-Instant Rice Roll aka Guay Jup (or more commonly spelt here as Kueh Chup. A Teochew influenced noodle dish that finds its way into Thai fusion culinary adventure. Added fried pork rind or khaep mu for extra texture (crispy is lost but it has that soggy niceness) and flavors!

Can’t recall the name of the mocking tail which has lots of cranberries and bubbly. Dolores, it shall be named, and remembered by.

Akira Back’s dishes never fails to exemplify how painstaking it must have been to create not a fusion dish, but to fuse two great dishes as one. menu. Imagine the ever so popular “sio bak” (crispy pork belly) dabbed with miso rolled in between a thin layer of moist and turgid Japanese rice, topped with refreshing coleslaw of cabbage, apple and chive. The combination is unprecedented and probably unthinkably wonderful.

Sous vide then roasted chicken breast perfectly done with truffles potato purée and teriyaki sauce. It’s simple relative to the dishes at Akira Back and I may not be too surprise if I return for this.

First time coming across this restaurant which serves a variety of less common street food of Malaysia in a no-frill clean environment within the malls; giving the old guards like Old Town, some healthy competition. This curry Chee Cheong Fun (steamed rice roll) has all the elements of a good comfort food: fresh curry, soft silky rice roll, fried fishball, fishcake and soy skin roll. Though not a common combo here in Singapore it was throughly enjoyable.

Lost for words, simplest yet unforgettable. The grilled pork slices (finally introduced to Ippudo Singapore) is how roast pork has to be done. Comes in the clear broth and spring onion, simple yet complete.

At Geylang Lor 21A, a lost gem was found...

For those who used to frequent the corner coffee shop along Armenian Street, you would recall two stalls in it. The Char Kway Teow and the Wu Xiang store. Since the coffee shop had made way for new swanky offices, the owners of the wu xiang store has problems finding a new location. They first moved to the Chinese Swimming Club and set up store next to the swimming pool. Business was not as brisk as only members are allowed to enter the club. After a two years hiatus, the owner's wife informed that they had set up store att 128 Tembeling Road. This coffee shop also house the famous Ang Mo Noodles with Wanton.

Anyway on to the food. The prawn cracker is freshly made and cooked on the spot. So it is piping hot and crispy when served. Also high recommended are the sotong, ngoh hiang and also the pink coloured sausages (some people call it Guan Chiang). The beehoon is not fantastic but I always ask for large helping of ikan bilis to complement the dish.