Lotus Paste Pao @ Tanjong Rhu Pau & Confectionery

The Tanjong Rhu Pau & Confectionery is near my place and if I just get off one bus stop before my regular one, I can pass by this place and grab a few paos (pau?) for dinner.

Before I gave up beef, pork, chicken, lamb, etc., I loved Tanjong Rhu Pau's pork bun with egg and their char siew buns. Now, I just treat myself to their lotus paste buns.

According to Wikipedia:

Lotus seed paste is a Chinese dessert ingredient made from dried lotus seeds. It is traditionally considered as a luxurious ingredient.

This is the same ingredient you usually find in mooncakes and it's heavenly in a hot steaming bun. That's my advice -- when you buy lotus buns, try to eat them while they're still hot. The lotus paste is creamier and tastier that way. If you've got leftovers, steam them again before you eat another serving.

I also ordered one of those yellow buns which for the life of me I cannot recall the name of. Anyone? Help?

The lotus paste and red bean buns or paos in Tanjong Rhu are mini in size. You can eat one lotus pao in one bite, two at the most. The ones with meat are bigger in size but still smaller compared to the regular siopaos out there.

Tanjong Rhu Pau & Confectionery

Corner of Lor 34 & Guillemard Road

Fried Fish Soup with Noodles @ Banquet

Lunch this day was at the Banquet food court at the Keypoint building near our office. I had initially planned to get something from the yang tou fu stall but when we passed the the fish noodle stall, it had a queue and that's always a good sign.

I ordered their Fried Fish Soup with noodle (you can also get this with a bowl of rice). It was surprisingly yummy with a generous serving of deep fried fish slices, greens, dried fish, dried garlic and some stringy things I did not recognize. The soup was tasty and served very hot (burned my tongue a couple of times). You can choose from their selection of noodles from ban mian to bee hon to egg noodles. I think they had at least 5 types of noodles you can choose from.

Banquet Keypoint
371 Beach Road 
Keypoint #01-16A 
Singapore 199597
Tel: +65 63278030

Shrimp Paste Fried Rice @ Tuk Tuk Thai Kitchen

Shrimp Paste Fried Rice or in Pinoy style: bagoong fried rice. The shrimp paste or bagoong was already mixed in with the rice and served with strips of scrambled egg, Chinese sausage, pork bits, strips of green mangoes, lemon, chili, onion and cucumber slices. 

I transferred the chili, onion, lemon, cucumber, pork bits and sausage slices to another plate and mixed the rest together with the rice. (Hmm... it would have been shorter to say I mixed in the mango strips and egg with the rice while the rest I discarded. Ha.)

The dish was good. You can taste the strong shrimp paste flavor and it wasn't too much to overpower your taste buds. The tartness of the mango strips brought in a nice flavor to complement the shrimp paste. The eggs added texture and protein to the dish. 

I also ordered the Thai Mango Salad which was more strips of mango, pickled and mixed in with strips of onion and chili. The sweet and sour taste of this salad was a nice mix to the fried rice. 

My lunch buddy ordered their Thai Bamboo Salad (top dish on the photo below) and that was a bust. It smelled weird and tasted weird too. We didn't eat any of it but the server had it packed in a doggy bag without us asking to. We ended up throwing it in the trash outside. I know, such a waste of food but we couldn't stomach it. The smell alone turned us off.

Tuk Tuk Thai Kitchen
#01-57/58/59, Golden Mile Complex
5001 Beach Road S(199588)
T: 6293 5101


Hours:
Mon to Sun: 6am - 10:30pm