Temasek

This place is beginning to be a favourite of ours. We once again ventured out to Temasek to welcome back Jangers from his overseas travels. Initially expecting five of us for dinner, we ordered a set menu for 5, only later to find out that Ken was having dinner at home. Grrr! The waiter was suprisingly accomodating, allowing us to keep the dishes that the kitchen had started preparing and remove excess items from our order.

To start, we had the spring rolls and curry puffs. The spring rolls were fairly average with a nice and crispy pastry and served with a sweet and sour sauce. The curry puffs had a firm shortcrusty pastry filled with a curry spiced potato mixture.

Spring rolls

Curry puffs

The mains were a bit more spectacular (in taste that is). The Singapore chili prawns had a wonderful chili aftertaste that lingers in your mouth for the rest of the meal. Andy and Irene, being soft(!) could only handle one prawn each. More for us! The balacaan french bean had a nice fermented salty flavour although it lacked a bit of wok "breath" (wok hay).

Singapore chili prawns

Balacaan french bean

We of course had to order beef rendang - Andy's favourite. The beef was quite tender and the thick curry sauce had a nice tang from the lemongrass (?). The chili oil floating on top of the curry was quite potent, something best to avoid if you want a little less heat. Lastly, to interspace the spicy dishes with something a bit more mild, we had the serai (lemongrass) pork - pork pieces stir fried in a sweet sauce. It seemed to be lacking in any lemongrass flavour but was tasty nonetheless.

Beef rendang

Serai pork

Having missed dinner, we asked Ken to bring us ice cream for dessert. Ken being Ken went over the top and bought 4 boxes of Weis bars: mango, mango and macadamia, rasberry and passionfruit, banana and pineapple.

Weis bars galore!

Sweet!