Loads of Sambal Petai for S!

I've always loved the food from Daisy's Dream Kitchen since their Tiong Bahru days, then to West Coast, and now at Temasek Club. I haven't tried out lunchboxes or lunch bowls from their new Daisy's Dream Cafe at Kinex (Tanjong Katong) yet. 

I ordered the dry seafood laksa that day for lunch. It was an item I really like. Well, I like laksa in any form, except for Penang-style assam laksa. The man loved it! He ate up every mouthful, and my prawns. Hahaha. Given how often we eat at Daisy's, I was surprised that the man had not tried their dry seafood laksa. 

Had S and F over for lunch the following day, and it was a menu from Daisy's Dream Kitchen too. S didn't want nyonya sambal prawns anymore, but she had a craving for petai. Sambal petai with ikan bilis and another dish of sambal brinjal and lady's fingers then! The other vegetables was chap chye, which is like, standard fare. The man can never resist chap chye (also, cabbage). They also gave us a lovely little tub of sambal belachan. Mmmmm.

F doesn't fare too well with chilli-spicy stuff. He was fine with beef rendang, and ngoh hiang. He bravely tried a buah keluak, and he was okay with that because it wasn't spicy! It was just a tad bitter, and the pork was also lean and non-spicy. The chips went down well with F too. The belinjo crackers lor. 

We shared just two portions of soups so that we wouldn't be too filled up — bakwan kepiting and itek tim. I only ordered a small portion of seafood otah to be shared, as a bite-sized appetizer. Otherwise it would be an overkill. 

It was such a lovely thing to see S and F. Flying into town in the middle of the pandemic, gritted through quarantine, got a few days of fun dining out, then back into lockdown and restricted visitors. Ugh. A pity the rules meant I couldn't see the other two boys. Ah well. I was just really really pleased to see S. The dog was the happiest because she got tons of belly rubs from F. He also bribed her with chimken. Hahaha. She deigned to hang out with us instead of disappearing into her cosy corners in the rooms. She happily snoozed and rolled around, asking for belly rubs when F came to sit next to her.

Then it was coffee and dessert. Well, dessert for our guests. The man and I skipped it. Hehehehe. Dessert were slices of pound cakes (orange and dark chocolate) from Pantler, and a box of salted dark chocolate brownies from Lucia Cakes (gifted by a friend over the weekend). F could really really inhale those brownies. He helped clear out half a pack. Yay!