Spice Peranakan @ Biopolis

I am back. I was too busy over Christmas meetings in church, and also feeling lazy and wanted to take a break from blogging over the holidays. Today's the first day of work and I think I am back blogging again. ;-)

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This was lunch I had with a Gorilla who picked me up for lunch last week.
We went to Biopolis to try Spice Peranakan. I had wanted to try it since they moved to Biopolis but did not have the chance. The last time I had lunch at Spice Peranakan was when they were still at Bukit Timah Shopping Centre. That must be so long ago! (I just checked this online food diary and it says April 2008!)

We texted a friend who works in Biopolis and wanted to have lunch with her. However she was stuck in a meeting. We took our own sweet time to order and ate really slowly. But her meeting only finished when we finished our meal!

While waiting for our meal, I took this first photo with my mobile phone. We sat outdoors. It was a nice cool day that day.




So what did Gorilla and I have? We initially wanted to try the Set Meals, but they were not offering that on the last few days of the year as they were expecting everyone to be on leave and not working in Biopolis. But they were wrong, customers were streaming in because the restaurants beside them were closed!

So we had ala-carte dishes. This is the Ayam Goreng. ($9.80)
Lovely fried chicken with caramelized onions and soy sauce. I love caramelized onions!



We also had the Chap Chye. ($7.80)
Found out that gorilla likes Chap Chye.

It goes very well with the free flow of rice we had. (rice is freeflow at $1.80 per person).
I only had 1 serving, but Gorilla had 3 huge servings. Yes, we always know he likes rice.



We also had the Beef Rendang. ($13.80)
Oh, the rendang was spicy! Real spicy! But we like it. It makes you want to eat more rice!
The pieces I had were quite tender and flavourful.




The food is still as nice as I tried it over a year ago. The last time, we had rice that was not cooked properly. haha.. This time it is nice that our friend had 3 platefuls of it.

The menu states that they do not even use any MSG. So those allergic to MSG do not need to worry. ;-)


Spicy Peranakan
20 Biopolis Way
Centros Building
#01-01
Singapore 138668

Tel: 673 888 7

Spice Peranakan @ Bukit Timah Shopping Centre

Last Sunday after church, our lunch was not too far away from church. We wanted to have lunch and go home and sleep. We went to Bukit Timah Shopping Centre. Aunt said that she saw this place, but have not tried it yet. So we decided to go and 'try try' lah..

It's at one end of the shopping centre, quite hidden if you don't walk to the end.
Basement 1, B1-18 if you are looking for it.



They have a menu board that has boxes in front of the name of dishes. When it's ticked, that means they have it that day. How interesting. They cook less things on Sundays it seems as there's less people around. It's a mum and pop shop.

So what did we have? We had the Chap Chye.



We also tried the stuff sotong. The sotong is stuffed with fish meat we were told. But I can't tell what it is. The sauce is quite ok.



This is the Asam Fish. It was quite all right too. The fish was a mackerel cut into 2 parts, and it is quite decent size.

One thing though. After our meal, we thought we ordered Asam Prawns, where are the prawns?? Then we realise we were served fish instead!haha...



Next was the fish that we actually ordered. It's called Ikan Tempra. The selar fish was fried till very crispy. "very garing" as they say it in Malay. I like this because I like to eat this kind of 'cheap' fish (that's no longer cheap) and it is covered with onions with black sauce, which is my fav too. (yes, very bias i know)



We also had Ayam Penyet. The penyet is not really penyet right? Look how high it still is. Maybe they forgot to hammer it! haha.. But it was fried very nicely. Plus the Tempra style again which had my favourite 'dao you' onions.



The food's overall's quite ok. We had 3 persons, we paid $26 for the dishes above.

But..... they got to learn how to cook rice! Yes, rice! Rice is the most important thing for this kind of dishes right? Rice that was served was half cooked. The middle part of the rice was still hard. Definitely not enough water. Alamak right?

Give chance a bit lah, next time hopefully they get to cook their rice properly. Maybe it is a new hired hand in the kitchen that cooked the rice. If rice is still not ok the next time, just tapow the dishes home, then eat it with freshly cooked rice.

Talking about rice, I miss the Bario rice from Sarawak. Must ask someone visiting Sarawak to bring back some!