Nothing gets me more intrigued than deep-fried garlic pork dishes — having tasted my very first one at Thai Jing Jing ever since those days when they were located at Berseh Food Centre, I found myself on a constant hunt to look for such iterations of the dish elsewhere.

This variant comes from Jia Wang Cafe; a new tzechar stall which had taken over the former premises of now-defunct Broth Noodle Bar (and also Sin Lee Foods, if that is a more familiar name for most). Really liked how the variant of the Fried Garlic Pork came with fried cloves of garlic and bits of diced garlic — the addition helps to enhance the textures by introducing some crispness and crustiness to the equally crispy nuggets of fried pork, itself being savoury, juicy and tender; no effort required to chew through the morsels of pork here. The result is an undeniably garlicky affair; something that certainly strikes a note for garlic lovers like me, while the drenching of the sweet sauce introduces a hint of sweetness that cuts through those garlicky notes a fair bit for yet another dimension of flavour — very delicious indeed.