I think the liquid from the cabbage might have been what's thinning out the sauce/curry because it tasted more intense today.
This and the Whampoa curry rice are the ones that still retain this old school taste, and very different from the more popular scissors cut type you find in most places.
While I possibly feel that Hong Seng had stronger flavours going on and maybe are a notch up on the whole, I didn't dislike this at all and would have no qualms giving this another go.