fOodie tRip!

After the much positive reviews about the Balestier "Founders Bak Kut Teh", 

we decided to try it out this Sunday afternoon.

We arrived at 2pm and joined the queue of 5 people. 

Perhaps its already after-lunch hours, the queue was moving very fast and 

we were seated within 10 mins and the food was served pretty shortly.

Food ordered was:

1) Bak Kut Teh - The meat was very lean, making me wonder "where are the fats?" Maybe because of the absence of the fats, it makes the meat texture abit tough. The soup was quite peppery -abit too spicy for my stomach and leaves a burning aftertaste on the tongue. 

2) Mixed innards - Consisting of kidney, liver and small intestine. Surprisingly, this dish is much better than the legendary bak kut. The innards are cooked just nice, tender and soft. This really requires skills!

3) Preserved Vegetables or "Mei Cai" - Yummy with enough doze of chopped garlic

4) You Tiao 

Overall, it taste good but both of us couldnt really tell where is the "wow" factor. I wouldn't mind going back again but definitely not if i have to queue for half an hour.

We headed off for some shopping on aquarium pump before going to Square 2 for Gong Cha.

Gong Cha @ Square 2

Gong Cha @ Square 2 was tugged away in the deserted corner. Unlike KOI, there was no queue and business was pretty brisk on a sunday afternoon.

We ordered Ali Shan Milk Tea & Black Milk Tea.
Unlike other brand, Gong Cha milk tea comes with a layer of frothy milk cream on top and there is even an instruction on how best to consume this drink!


1.將杯蓋打開，以口就杯，讓奶泡與茶同時滑入口中
2.插入吸管，品嚐原味茶香
3.攪拌均勻飲用，讓茶香與奶香交融出多層次的絕佳口感

I absolutely love it at the very first taste!
The Ali Shan Milk Tea was really good.
The frothy milk cream taste a bit salty and creamy and
it brings off the sweetness of the tea in the 1st mouth.
I love the first way of drinking the tea so much that i finished half the cup in such manners.
It would really be good if we have enough time to really sit down and sample the drink.

However, one man meat is another man poison.

Dear doesn't really like it as he thinks its too milky.

Dear also observe bit similarity between Happy Lemon Green Tea with Salt and Cheese where both has the frothy stuffs on top. Hmm...