The UTW (“Under Ten Words”): Japanese kushiyaki bar with good tempura batter. The must-orders (if any): Special Tempura Don, Kawa Kushiyaki Summary: Situated at The Sail @ Marina Bay, the very misleadingly-named Kimoto Gastro Bar is decidedly traditional in its Japanese kushiyaki bar aspirations, offering an extensive variety of tanned, delectably charred…
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…
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…
Pan-fried cod fish with cauliflower tempura, confit garlic and shiraz reduction from Pool Grill. One of the largest servings of cod I’ve had on a plate yet. Despite missing the characteristic butteriness I was expecting, the cod possessed the soft, supple flesh of one that takes queenly milk baths and…
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 –…
Kuroson Tempura Don from Ginza Kuroson (Takashimaya) – pumpkin, seaweed, shiso leaf, mushroom, fish, calamari and prawn tempura on a bed of rice. The tempura portion was surprisingly generous and wonderfully varied in type, and the batter always remained on the right side of fried. 4/5 P.S. I don’t normally…
Chirashi Don – scallop, amberjack, tuna, chopped tuna belly, whelk, salmon, salmon roe and crispy tempura bits on Hokkaido rice. Unlike other commercial variants which have their sashimi grouped by type and forced to huddle and squeeze in a predetermined sitting plan, this chirashi don is so carefully put together,…