Balestier Midnight Bak Kut Teh

My favorite bak kut teh place, Founder, on Balestier Road, was apparently still closed for Chinese New Year tonight, so we popped over a couple doors to one of their competitors, which is still half-decent with a nice peppery garlic broth. I tried the pig trotters for the first time today, but it was just a lot of mushy fat and skin. Still, I didn't mind the garlic cloves, which were nice and soft - a bit like the Bagna Calda at the Stinking Rose. And I noticed at the end that the broth had a mild tinge of Chinese herbs (ginseng?) in it, which I normally would have thought that I would hate, but this was so mild that it wasn't too bad. I still prefer Founder to this place, but this is not a bad fallback in case Founder is closed.