Eating In Translation

Deccan Kabab

(This venue is closed.) My dining brief on this Hyberabadi eatery appears in the December 22, 2010 edition of The New York Times. For more photos, see my slideshow.

Tanjong Pagar Plaza Market and Food Centre

Loku, brother of longkong?

Niu Che Shui Famous Glutinous Rice

Last of the day's batch, 10:20 a.m.

Jia Rong Egg Stall

The partially peeled thatch between my fingers illustrates a traditional method for preparing a century egg (40 Singapore cents), also known by other hyberbolic names including hundred-year egg, millennium egg, and the like.

Clementi Brothers Rojak

This rendition of the fruit-and-vegetable salad called rojak (small, S$3) was well-decorated with crushed peanut, but the flavor of the sauce was restrained. Perhaps the proprietor held back, despite my request for full-on prawn flavor.

Nasi Padang River Valley

From looks alone it's hard to tell the rendang is super-tender.

House of Soya Bean

Fresh soy milk has a flavor that's attractively beany, sometimes almost nutty. This cup (with less ice, S$1.50) also sports strips of chin chow, greenish black "grass jelly" made from an herb enlisted, in East Asia, for its cooling properties. More to come on chin chow, in iced-dessert form.

House of Soya Bean
Zion Riverside Food Centre, stall 14, Singapore
(From a summer 2010 visit)

Por Kee Eating House

Shown purely for the name. I got no closer to the restaurant than this sign down the street, and so I can't vouch for Por Kee unconditionally, or even air-conditionally.

Por Kee Eating House
69 Seng Poh Lane, #01-02, Singapore
65-6221-0582
(From a summer 2010 visit)

Jian Bo Shui Kueh

Breakfast in Singapore, wrapped to go.

International Burmese Monks Organization fundraiser

This sampler was assembled from some 30 selections spread across a school-cafeteria table; other tables offered dishes that were mixed, poured, or divvied a la minute. See a few more items, some better identified than others, in the slideshow.

International Burmese Monks Organization fundraiser
P.S. 12 (The James B. Colgate School), 42-00 72nd St., Woodside, Queens
www.BurmeseMonks.org