McDonald's Corn Cup instead of Fries

A short post today. After getting married for about 2.5 weeks, you discover more things about your other half more than you ever have in 2.5 years.

The wife loves corn! Fresh corn or even canned corns! She can even tell you which brand is worth buying and which ones are horrible.

Few days day, we were McDonald's. I was the seat 'choper' while she went to get the meals. She came back with her Teppanyaki Chicken McGrill, a drink and a cup of corn. I asked her, if she ordered a la carte? She said no, this is a set meal.

Now that's something new to me. She said, you don't know? McDonald's did not tell you meh? She sniggered.

I did not! One of the reason I go to McDonald's is because of the fries!
Do you know that instead of fries, you can ask a cup of corn? It's interchangeable now.



The corn comes with butter. The same one that you get when you order pancakes.
Well, it does look very nice, doesn't it?



I am not really a fan of corn, so I will stick to my fries.
I like my fries dipped in a sundae cone or in curry sauce.

Are you a fries or corn person?

M. Hasan Railway Station Canteen @ KTM Tanjong Pagar Railway Station

If you are on the Singapore MRT, you will always hear, "Your attention please, eating and drinking are not allowed in the stations and trains".

But on the Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB)'s Singapore (Tanjong Pagar / Keppel Road) Station of the Railway network, you can eat on the station! More precisely, you can eat on the train platform itself!



This was taken about 1 week ago. Momo and I brought our parents to have a last visit and last meal at the railway station before the place closes down on 30 June 2011.

Wondering what to eat here?
Here's what we had.  We had 3 different kinds of 'goreng' (fried in Malay) food.

Kuey Teow Goreng

Our first goreng dish: Kuey Teow Goreng.

Malay style fried kuey teow. It was a tad oily, but it sure was delicious.
I like how they always have a splat of tomato sauce and a slice of cucumber over it.

Tauhu Goreng

The second goreng dish: Tauhu Goreng. (Fried Tofu).

This is the more Malay style, where pieces of tofu is deep fried and topped with scalded bean sprouts and julienne cucumber.  It's topped with a generous amount of peanuty sauce. The sauce here is not bad. Not the best around, but it's good.




The third goreng dish: Pisang Goreng (Banana fritters)

The pisang goreng here is very popular! Every now and then, a tray of freshly fried pisang will be brought out and you can see, people grabbing some onto their plates in the most polite way.

You know what I mean right - the meaning of polite? Smiling at each other, even without speaking, using hand signals conveying the message, 'you go first', the next person reciprocate by another, 'no lah, you go first'. Until someone finally relents and starts to grab some. You then see the person stacking like 15 pieces of pisang and you in your heart screaming, leave some for me!



The pisang pieces were huge! It's looked like pieces of fried chicken right?
Perfectly riped pisang deep fried and the outer layer of batter that stays crispy and crunchy. I tell you, you got to try this!

Only 60 cents per piece and it's huge.

Halal Yong Tau Foo

If you think all the 'goreng' stuff's too unhealthy, then go for the healthier, soupy stuff.
Momo got us some yong tau foo. She said it's not too bad.

Chapati

Another very popular stall is the Chapati Stall.
These two ladies or 'kakak' (elder sister) / 'makcik' (auntie), depending on how old you are, address them correctly and they will serve you with a huge smile.

They were making the chapati non stop, every piece was hand rolled and pressed on the heated pan to cook. Hard work! Certainly not the thawed frozen crap that you get in some food court.

I called them 'kakak' (to score some brownie points first) and asked if I could take a photo of them in Malay. She said sure, but wait, Kakak said she needed to adjust her apron and tudong first, then went to to flip the chapati. I wanted to laugh, but kept quiet.

In my not so good Malay, I asked where will they move after June 30? They said, they are taking a rest, they will go back to Kelantan to visit family and then decide later.




The usual order that most people ask for. Either 2, 3 or 4 pieces of chapati and the bowl of standard 'dip'.




I ordered 4 pieces of it, (each piece is 60 cents) because we ordered so many other things to eat.
These chapatis were really nice especially when it's hot right off the pan!

Something so simple made from wheatflour, water, salt and oil can taste so good!
I think I like it because there's no yeast in it!



The usual or default 'dip' / 'gravy' / 'sauce' that comes with it. It's made from minced meat with chunks of potato and curry powder. It's very tasty and I think they go very well with rice too!




I saw some sotong and ordered it as well. The father in law seemed to like this a lot.
He was especially delighted with the sotong roe that's stuffed inside the sotong. Something similar or familiar to his peranakan food.

Air Bandung

After the 'goreng goreng' food, the rest settled with hot 'teh' (tea) or 'kopi' (coffee) to help purge out the oil in the system, but I opted for the cool way. I had the air bandung. OK, it's way too sweet for my liking, but the colour's nice for photography?


Hurry down to the Tanjong Pagar Railway Station if you want to try out the food there.
The station will be handed back to Singapore from the Malaysian authorities. The last train in and out of Singapore will be on 30 June.


M Hasan Railway Station Canteen
KTMB Tanjong Pagar Railway Station
30 Keppel Road
Singapore 089059

BK Crunchy Nacho Burgers

Momo and I were at ION Orchard grabbing some stuff and we were looking for a place for a quick bite. If you have seen the posters all around Singapore, Burger King is having the BK Crunchy Nacho Burgers. We thought we would try it out.




We ordered two set meals.

Looking at the onion rings, how many of you know that it has been a while since you can choose either fries or onions? In 'ancient' time, you would need to top up if you want to switch to onion rings.

Do you know that it has been a while, probably a year or two, that you can choose onion rings if you are not a fries person without paying a cent more?





Momo's Nacho Whopper Jr.

Momo likes nachos or any corn related stuff. The first bite, she said it was nothing special, but as she tasted the corn flavours, she said it was nice.

It had spicy jalapeno BBQ sauce which gives it a slight spiciness. There were also caramelized onions. (The reason they are called Nacho burgers, the tortilla chips with the spicy jalapeno BBQ Sauce etc!)




I had the Nacho Tendergrill Chicken.

I am not a very nacho person, so I find it ok. The nachos gives it a slight crunchiness.
The slight crunch made the burger a little unique though. I like the spicy jalapeno BBQ sauce and caramelized onions that was added to the usual tendergrill chicken burger.





For now, BK is giving out Black Pepper Basil Drumlets with any of the Nacho Crunchy Burger meal.
They are tasty except a little small.

What Momo and I discovered is that at Burger King, when you pay using your EZ Link card, you can get 50 cents off every two meals. So we paid using our EZ Link card ;-)


Available at all Burger King outlets Singapore wide from 2 to 29 June 2011.
It will be off their menu from 30 June 2011. So hurry if you want to try it out.