Situated in the drinks-centric Duxton Hill enclave, Rizu is a contemporary Japanese restaurant showcasing omakase menus as well as an a la carte selection of various sashimi, nigiri sushi, tapas, mains, rice bowls and rolls. The 38-seater restaurant plays it simultaneously chic-sexy and intimate with its dim lighting and textured…
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…
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…
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…
Kaisendon with added quail egg and chicken leek skewers from the newly-opened Teppei Daidokoro at Raffles City, a takeaway kiosk concept serving yakitori, croquettes, bentos and their now-ubiquitous kaisendon. The emotionally uninvested rice and mouth-fillingly obese sashimi chunks failed to generate much Lust, Caution-esque chemistry, whilst elsewhere the egg softness,…
Bara-Chirashi Don from Sushiro, a humble 12-seater Japanese concept situated within Thomson Plaza. The generous portion of the happily-sized and uber-fresh seafood cubes will leave you in a state of suspended sashimi bliss and the pearly rice-to-seafood ratio was magical. Elsewhere, the marinate was a glorious cross between Teppei Syokudo’s…
Kaisen don from The Sushi Bar. The formidably girthed smorgasbord of raw ocean is guaranteed to stave off your sashimi craves for at least forty-six days, perhaps too efficiently – the cuts are on occasion remarkably trying on one’s teeth, as you will find yourself adjusting your in-mouth content to…
Wakame & romaine salad from Open Door Policy – hamachi sashimi, tomatoes, onion & miso dressing. The hamachi slices were moist, supple and delectably oiled, with a thickness so bitable and substantial that you can club your friends’ faces with these marvellous and literally yellow tails, and elsewhere the wakame…
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…