This came beautifully plated with strawberries, strawberry sauce and blue pea flower (bunga telang) used for colour in a way I had never seen... Yup I admit I ate the flowers too.
I went there for the S$42++ weekday lunch set, a S$48 variant of which is available on weekends. For cake lovers there is an afternoon tea set for two, from 3 to 5pm daily this month of Sep 2019.
The meat was lean (clearly front trotter) and tender but firm. The sauce was salty enough to give it a zing (but I avoided drowning the rice in sauce just as good practice)! This dish was so good I ordered two packets to bring back home! The chef was basking from my in-kind appreciation and suggested youtiao from the opposite stall to go with it.
I actually went to Yuhua Village to trackdown the "Queenstown Poh Piah dude" cos I used to eat his fabulous braised duck rice (way way back when Margaret Drive was an epicentre of my culinary journey and when me and my work buddies would choose the duck rice downstairs to the chicken rice upstairs w/o hesitation). But his stall has moved, as I learnt, so I wasn't able to high-five him.
Takeaway Croissant from Tiong Bahru Bakery
as my buddy Benny would remark.
It passed the "Benny Test" with distinction. The beef was juicy even with the dry style of frying, and the 'fun' was tasty and not overly oily.
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The prata was sweet, meaning that the chef cunningly added sugar without us even asking. Haha, sweet deepfried starches are everyone's weakness (fersure, just think #churros). This was more of a sweetbread: layered to be brown, crispy and flakey outside, and warm, white and chewy inside. It reminded me of the sultana danish you can get at Delifrance. In short, yummy!
I don't actually believe that 'Jalan Kayu - The Prata Cafe' has Jalan Kayu lineage.
Haha, I would have far less trouble believing that my neighbours' cat descended from Simba the Lion King. But nevermind that, cos they do make awesome pratas.
A topless five sundae with banana slices at @swensenssingapore gives each of us a choice of our favourite icecream flavours. We also had a good time playing with the slices.
