3 Babas Peranakan Restaurant

Jalan Gelenggang

I chanced upon this place while in search of a Thai restaurant. Lovely home cooked taste in the assam fishhead (top), cooked with plenty of ladies fingers and brinjal; ayam buah kelak (top left), a chicken cooked with a mashed nut was flavourful; the squid cooked in ink (middle left) was delicious when stirred into the rice though I wished they had left more of the nut in the shell than in the sauce; the sayu lodeh, vegetable curry was light; the lo bak, the meat roll was ordinary; as was the sea cucumber soup.

Generally delicious though the portions could be larger – the assam fishhead was served in a huge pot that was more bones than fish. Also service could improve. It was clearly a family operation that could barely cope with the half filled restaurant that evening. Prices were reasonable. The dinner for six was under S$70 / US$41.