Salmon Don from the lunch menu of the newly-opened Big Sake Bar at The Concourse Skyline. Whilst the salmon sashimi portion would fully satiate your inner tabby cat, the presence of the spurtfully sour cherry tomatoes and bitter arugula in a Japanese sashimi rice bowl felt as comfortably natural as…
Spicy Tuna Don from The Horse’s Mouth. The smooth, gently numbing sauce wraps its coquettishly spicy feather boa around the contours of the cool, clean minced tuna – and indeed, the contours of your inner lips – with professional pleasure strictly on its agenda. 4/5 The Horse’s Mouth 583 Orchard…
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…
Tenka Special Tendon Set from the newly-opened Tempura Tsukiji Tenka, one of the 16 food concepts at Japan Food Town in Wisma Atria. The limp, flaccid tempura skin involved would fail to give anyone a rise, while elsewhere the prawns had the fatigue levels of an ‘O’-Level Sec Four student…
Jin Sake Don from Jinzakaya – chargrilled salmon fillet with teriyaki sauce. Whilst the salmon fillets had the seasoned competency of a 35-year-old Japanese professional, the same cannot be said for the drought-stricken rice, so arid that traversing camels are miserably falling on their sides to the ground. 3.2/5 Jinzakaya…
Salmon red rice and baby octopus donburi from Wild Rocket. Essentially an immensely gratifying bowl of umami wonder – the warm, pork floss-esque, prawny, salty and surprisingly sweet rice is marvellous mouth fodder in its own right, but then the slithery, soft seared salmon comes and delivers a killer tail…
Aburi salmon belly don from DSTLLRY. Once inside the safe embrace of your mouthly cavern, the seared salmon slices seem to disintegrate into distinct layers – an external fatty and oily layer instantly disengages from the virtually liquid core of supple salmon flesh, which itself almost immediately melts on your…
Special Tendon from Ginza Tendon Itsuki – onsen egg, shrimp, chicken and mixed vegetable tempura (shiitake mushroom, pumpkin, corn and long beans) on rice drizzled with a sweet and savoury sauce. The onsen egg provided surprise and amusement and the various tempura elements were lightly battered and suitably pleasurable –…
Edomae Hikarimono Don from Ginza Kuroson – selection of aji, saba and kanpachi sashimi (three varieties of silver-skinned fish) on a bed of rice. If you pardon the seemingly modest portion, this is truly a rice bowl from heaven if you’re a fan of silver-skinned (read: fishy) fish sashimi -…