Ichiban Jyu – salmon sashimi, sesame oil and chilli padi on a bed of rice. The amount of oil and chilli used per bowl is probably by way of dice throw in the Ichiban Boshi kitchens, so make a request for separate extra servings of both each time. With the…
Grilled salmon served with mashed potato, corn, carrots and broccoli. Moist and well-cooked, with the most delectably crispy and salty skin. However, the mashed potato ought to invest in some good body lotion instead of slathering itself with butter as a quick fix for smooth skin. For the picture, the…
Chirashi. Apart from the variety they offer in terms of sea catch – you get singular pieces of many types of sashimi instead of multiple slices of the same few things – what I adore about Sugisawa’s Chirashi is their inclusion of denbu (sweet semi-dried fish flakes) which tastes like…
Red Tom Yum Soup. Like Willy Wonka’s Three Course Dinner Chewing Gum, this soup morphs from form to form while it swishes in your mouth, all within seconds – it starts off as piquant tomato bisque, then becomes classic spicy tom yum soup, but in the final few seconds it…
Chirashi – salmon, swordfish, tuna, and amberjack sashimi with ikura and tamago on a bed of rice. Essentially Chikuwa Tei’s chirashi but now in a round and not square home, and the definitive chirashi that bitchslaps all others and demands that they bow down. It’s only $25, yet the thicknesses…
Oven roasted Chilean sea bass with celeriac, honshimeji and edamame. The fish was good – moist, buttery and well-cooked, with nice crumbs for added crunch. I enjoyed the bitterness of the edamame and mushrooms, but the celeriac left me rather bemused as it tasted very much like it had just…
Zuppa di Mare – seafood soup concocted with prawn, clam, mussel and squid in spicy tomato sauce, white wine and basil leaves. Thick, rich and comforting. The soup tasted like a ménage a trois between canned sardine gravy, chilli and tomato, so steamy and explicit that the clams were left…
Mix Bara Kaisen Don – assorted seafood sashimi chunks on rice. This is the lunch set, which is excellent value for money since you get chawanmushi, mochi, miso soup and a salad along with the generous servings of sashimi chunks! The chunks were nicely cubed and fat, and the bowl…
Seafood aglio olio – seasonal seafood, ikura and ponzu. Methinks the chef doth salteth too much, but the smoky sexiness of the seafood does some major redemption. 3.5/5 Gastrosmiths 103 Beach Road Tan Quee Lan Street Singapore 189704