Delivery — Jiak by Jin Feng x Playmade ($43.10)!
Circuit breaker delivery — Jiak by Jin Feng (lu rou fan + sides) bundled with Playmade bubble tea. $43.10 weekend dinner spread.
Saturday circuit-breaker dinner — Jiak by Jin Feng × Playmade delivery combo. Jiak is the casual-dining sister concept to Jin Feng (the lu rou fan specialist), and they partnered with Playmade bubble tea during lockdown for a meal-plus-drinks bundle.
We ordered:
- Jiak by Jin Feng lu rou fan set
- Side dishes (braised egg, tofu, vegetables)
- Playmade brown sugar pearl drinks
Total: $43.10 delivered.
Lu rou fan is the Taiwanese braised pork rice — finely chopped pork belly braised in a deep five-spice and dark-soy sauce until the fat goes silky and the meat melts apart. Spooned over short-grain rice that’s absorbed some of the braising liquid. Jiak’s version had real depth — the kind of long-simmer technique that you can’t fake.
Side dishes turned the lu rou fan into a proper spread. Braised egg (soaked in the same dark-soy braising stock, hard-boiled, slightly chewy), silken tofu in a sweet-soy glaze, and a portion of stir-fried vegetables. The classic Taiwanese rice-stall accompaniments, ported over to delivery.
Playmade bubble tea is one of the better fresh-tea chains in Singapore, and the brown sugar pearl version is their signature — fresh milk poured over brown-sugar-coated tapioca pearls, with the dark sugar swirling down the cup in those tiger-stripe streaks. Pearls were chewy and brown-sugar-soaked, the tea-less drink format actually worked because the brown sugar gives it depth.
The cross-brand bundle was the smart lockdown play. Dinner and drinks in one order, one delivery rider, one charge. We didn’t have to coordinate two app orders.
$43.10 for two people at a sit-down-level Taiwanese spread plus drinks is fair value during lockdown delivery.
Overall: 4.3 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Strong bundle deal — would re-order the combo.
