The UTW (“Under Ten Words”): Intimate, classy Japanese grill experience with omakase option. The must-orders (if any): Kagoshima A4 wagyu roasted beef with red miso fond de veau sauce, crispy grilled chicken with yuzu pepper. Summary: Taking over where Five Nines (which has since relocated to Cuppage) left off at…
The UTW (“Under Ten Words”): Queue-tastic, massively popular value-for-Money Japanese chirashi bowl goodness. The must-orders (if any): Bara Chirashi Don, Seasonal Chirashi Dons Summary: One of the breakout stars of 2016 thanks to its ridiculously photogenic and value-for-money marinated bara chirashi don, Sushiro has gone on to rapidly expand from its…
The UTW (“Under Ten Words”): Japanese Sake Bar, where presently food is ancillary. The must-orders (if any): Sake Aragato Flight, Baby Corn Summary: Kabuke is a second-storey Japanese sake bar situated along Telok Ayer Street, offering a selection of sake and very attractively priced sake flights (wherein you get a fixed combination of…
Just thinking about this Mixed Tendon (prawn, dory fish, onsen egg and vegetables on Japanese rice served with miso soup and chawanmushi) that I had forty-two ministries ago at Tensho, a tempura concept which launches today at The Centrepoint. For $14.90, you get a satisfyingly portioned and gently crispy tempura…
Warabi Mochi from Zipang Japanese Dining Bar. (Damn, this was warm and legit.) Zipang Japanese Dining Bar 28 Cavenagh Road #01-05 Singapore 229635
Chirashi Don from the newly-opened Zipang Japanese Dining Bar along Cavanagh Road behind Concorde Hotel. Essentially Teppei-style but here salt level-perfect marinated sashimi chunks atop fluffy and comfortingly warm rice, with the addition of whitebait adding chewy bitterness and the sashimi being so remarkably fresh that its innate fishly sensuality…
Just thinking about this Stir-Fried Surume Squid and Leek in Squid Liver Sauce that I had sixty-nine zippyzipengs ago at Zipang Japanese Dining Bar, a new concept launching behind Concorde Hotel. (“Zipang” actually means “Japan” in old language.) The menu is extensive and includes izayaka fare (grilled fish, skewers) and…
Maguro Akami from Nobu-ya at Fortune Centre, one of the essential izakaya experiences around. You are paying not for a plate of sashimi but for a Bukit Merah (that’s “red hill”, folks – Social Studies Consultant) of clean, baby buttock-tender tuna flesh, and at the baffling price of $10 it…
Tendon Spicy Flavour from Tempura Kohaku, a new Japanese concept at Suntec City. The sweet, saucy tendon clubs you in manner of vicious seal-hunting Canadians with a smorgasbord of various tempura (chicken, squid, vegetables and prawns etc) so plentiful that you would be left feeling guilty and phat, while elsewhere…