One day, my Dear told me he was going to bring me to a secret place for lunch. I asked where? He refused to tell me. Only asked me to meet him at Bukit Timah Plaza.
When we got there, I saw the familiar setting of dining ~ the stall was featured on TV. It was on “What to eat at next stop” ( 下一站吃什么). The owner is a Korean Mother.
Haaa… so.. not much of a surprise but my Dear’s idea of bringing me there was surprising enough.. as he dun eat Korean food. While for me, I do like it.
Their Kimchi - Not flavourful enough. A bit spicy. Only can taste the hot spiciness. No sweet cabbage taste. Sorry to say, I had tasted better Kimchi.
Their pancake is good, but abit too thin. Haaaa…
Their Ginseng Chix soup is flavourful. Mashita! But the serving a bit too little. We got to ask the staff to add more soup for us.
My Dear dunno how to order, he only know Chix Soup, so I ordered a bowl of rice for him and black noodle for myself. The noodles are the normal yellow instant noodle that you can get from supermarket. The black sauce also is available. It tastes like the Japanese UFO instant dried noodles.
yum-misaid: is that black noodles korean ja jiang noodles? 27 Dec 2007 at 9:07 pm
natsusaid: Not very sure. Maybe it is. I realised that their Ja Jiang Mien is very different from the Shanghainese one. 27 Dec 2007 at 9:39 pm
yum-misaid: i tried the shanghainese ja jiang mien at the crystal jade. but i don't like the taste. nv tried before korean one. feel like trying. :) 18 Jan 2008 at 2:07 pm
jcsaid: how's the pricing like? 25 May 2009 at 12:44 am
Its been a while that I visit Ramen Ten @ Far East Plaza.
I decided to go ‘vegetarian’ ~ Mushroom Ramen. The soup base is thick with a strong milk taste. For pple who dun like milk, might not be able to accept it. The mushrooms had a strong ‘mushroom’ taste (raw raw taste lah) - the natural taste might not be acceptable by majority too. The ramen is Q. Very tasty. :D
My Dear ordered the Tom Yam Chix Katsu Dried Ramen. Spicy and not a bad try of Thai-Jap Fusion.
Chix Karage abit hard and oily. Think over cooked.
Found this new Japanese Grilled Seafood stall at Takashiyama, near the escalator of B2. It used to be the Hokkaido Okonomiyaki stall.
We were there quite late. So some of the items are sold out. I wanna try the Oden set, but no more. However, the aunty is kind to give me free sample to try - whatever is left in their pot. heehee… and its Oiishi!! The soup base is bonito, sotong tentacles and radish boiled, so its very flavourful. My Dear said he dun like the “fishy smell” and the salty taste.
I ordered by Favourite - Yaki Ika meal (S$8.90). The miso soup is not ordinary miso soup, its Seafood Miso! The Yaki Ika is not too tough, but crunchy after the grilling.
My Dear is not a Seafood lover. He only take Fish. So, he ordered Unagi Set ($$7.80), but he loves the Seafood Miso Soup. :D They put Sotong, pieces of Salmon, radish, other kind of fishes in the Miso Soup. Of coz, I got to take all the “good” stuff from his soup. :p
Dunno whether its that we were hungry or the food is really GOOD, we finished almost everything!
They close around 9pm and its always packed coz they have limited eating area.
I love Japanese Food. I like to try the food, and try cooking at home. Heeheee..
My Dear loves Sashimi, especially Salmon Sashimi. But I am allegied to raw fish. Can’t touch and eat them. :( However, I am able to eat amebi (raw prawn) and ika (squid). :D & I LOVE IKA SASHIMI. Its quite tough to fine cheap and good Japanese Food. Cheap as in reasonable or best buy pricing; Good as in fresh and well prepared.
My Dear and I found out this Japanese Restaurant in Chinatown, hidden or shadowed by MacDonald, Chinatown Point.
By chance, we got an invitation from the Boss as my Dear posted a ‘heartful’ blogpost about Takaya Bistro. :D & so happen that they opened a branch near my place - Upper Thomson. They took over the place from Sushi OM, which the Boss is an interior designer, so the decor is damn cool. :D
We are fortunate to try their signature dishes at no cost. :p
Takaya Special Appetizer - consists of Celery, Carrot, and the unique roots - Huai Shan (淮山). Not sure what it is called in English, but I know we normally use the dried one for chinese herbal soup.
Japanese Braised Pork - Tender, juicy, not that oily like the Chinese style. Maybe its becoz they din use the belly meat.
Braised Beef - I dun take beef. According to my Dear, its flavourful and tender.
Yaki Shitake - One of my favourite dish! I will always order this dish. Its nicely grilled till crispy on the outside and soft and juicy on the inside. It is lightly sprinkled with salt to bring out the natural shitake sweetness.
Black Pepper Prawn - Spicy. I really do mean spicy. From the first bite onto the de-shelled prawn, I tasted the sweetness of mayonnaise, then the spicyness of the black pepper. The style is like the wasabi prawn, only different is one is wasabi, the other is black pepper.
Lobster Dish - I forgot what is the name of this dish, so I called it the Lobster Dish. The lobster is steam/boiled (not sure), and slices of lemon were inserted in between the meat. Eat it while its warm. Lobster’s meat as compared to prawn, is definitely tougher. This is dish when I tried, its abit over cooked, so the meat is tougher, and the lemon pieces were too thick, so it makes the meat filled with the lemon sour taste. Can’t taste any Lobster’s sweetness. If it was to be a Lobster sashimi (or the meat is 80% cooked) with thin slices of Lemon, might be better.
Salmon Roll - Tempura Prawn wrapped in fresh Salmon sashimi. A pity that I cannot eat the salmon. My Dear ‘undressed’ the roll and let me eat the prawn. One comment : FRESH! Even the prawn is fried, I can still taste its freshness! :D
Grilled Salmon Head - One of their top dishes. I admit that I dun really know how to appreciate Salmon, but this one really caught my taste bud’s attention. The meat is grilled just right, smooth and juicy. The best part is the cheek and the crispy skin!!!! Yummy!!! I LOVE SALMON SKIN!
Cold Sake - I am a wine drinker. Tried Sake before (on airplane), can’t really take the spicyness. Always heard how smooth and tasty warm Sake is, had seldom heard about drink Sake cold. But this one, this particular brand, must drink it cold. Really cannot imagine how sweet and smooth the taste of this cold Sake is. It run down the throat leaving a sweet trace… Shiok!
Grilled Ika - MY FAVOURITE! Not the hokkaido style, but its damn sweet and chewy… Heeheee…. Its all mine, coz my Dear dun take ika! :D
Swordfish Sashimi - One of the expensive sashimi. The Boss insisted that my Dear try it. Coz its rarely served. My Dear said it tasted smooth and firm, bery unlike Salmon which is smooth and soft.
Its not easy to handle Soba or Ramen. Coz you need to be accurate with the cooking time to avoid over cooked or under cooked. Noodles must Q. The soup base is also important as noodles itself is tastless.
So… much of introducation of their dishes. Go try it yourself lah… they got buffet lunch at SGD19.80nett and dinner at SGD23nett. Value for money! Coz their items are very fresh!
Had lunched at Hooked! which is at the Railway Mall on MAY DAY. Its a very family restaurant. The staff are friendly. We ordered the set with mushroom soup. Appetizer - Calamari with fried Fish skin. As usual, my Dear ordered his Fave - Fish & Chips. Being adventurous, I ordered stir fried linguine with Otah.
Soup is not bad, not like its totally from Campbell. It has additional fresh mushroom. Fried Fish skins and Calamari are addictive though the calamari can be better. My Dear’s Fish & chips uses Dory Fish. I dun really like Dory Fish, coz it has a funny taste. My linguine is a bit too oily. Maybe I should not be too adventurous for a first-time visit.
1=SGD 0.0587
When we got there, I saw the familiar setting of dining ~ the stall was featured on TV. It was on “What to eat at next stop” ( 下一站吃什么). The owner is a Korean Mother.
Haaa… so.. not much of a surprise but my Dear’s idea of bringing me there was surprising enough.. as he dun eat Korean food. While for me, I do like it.
Their Kimchi - Not flavourful enough. A bit spicy. Only can taste the hot spiciness. No sweet cabbage taste. Sorry to say, I had tasted better Kimchi.
Their pancake is good, but abit too thin. Haaaa…
Their Ginseng Chix soup is flavourful. Mashita! But the serving a bit too little. We got to ask the staff to add more soup for us.
My Dear dunno how to order, he only know Chix Soup, so I ordered a bowl of rice for him and black noodle for myself. The noodles are the normal yellow instant noodle that you can get from supermarket. The black sauce also is available. It tastes like the Japanese UFO instant dried noodles.
Sorry, my verdict is abit too harsh.
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27 Dec 2007 at 9:07 pm
Not very sure. Maybe it is. I realised that their Ja Jiang Mien is very different from the Shanghainese one.
27 Dec 2007 at 9:39 pm
i tried the shanghainese ja jiang mien at the crystal jade. but i don't like the taste. nv tried before korean one. feel like trying. :)
18 Jan 2008 at 2:07 pm
I decided to go ‘vegetarian’ ~ Mushroom Ramen. The soup base is thick with a strong milk taste. For pple who dun like milk, might not be able to accept it. The mushrooms had a strong ‘mushroom’ taste (raw raw taste lah) - the natural taste might not be acceptable by majority too. The ramen is Q. Very tasty. :D
My Dear ordered the Tom Yam Chix Katsu Dried Ramen. Spicy and not a bad try of Thai-Jap Fusion.
Chix Karage abit hard and oily. Think over cooked.
We ordered the California maki - good! :D
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We were there quite late. So some of the items are sold out. I wanna try the Oden set, but no more. However, the aunty is kind to give me free sample to try - whatever is left in their pot. heehee… and its Oiishi!! The soup base is bonito, sotong tentacles and radish boiled, so its very flavourful. My Dear said he dun like the “fishy smell” and the salty taste.
I ordered by Favourite - Yaki Ika meal (S$8.90). The miso soup is not ordinary miso soup, its Seafood Miso! The Yaki Ika is not too tough, but crunchy after the grilling.
My Dear is not a Seafood lover. He only take Fish. So, he ordered Unagi Set ($$7.80), but he loves the Seafood Miso Soup. :D They put Sotong, pieces of Salmon, radish, other kind of fishes in the Miso Soup. Of coz, I got to take all the “good” stuff from his soup. :p
Dunno whether its that we were hungry or the food is really GOOD, we finished almost everything!
They close around 9pm and its always packed coz they have limited eating area.
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My Dear loves Sashimi, especially Salmon Sashimi. But I am allegied to raw fish. Can’t touch and eat them. :( However, I am able to eat amebi (raw prawn) and ika (squid). :D & I LOVE IKA SASHIMI. Its quite tough to fine cheap and good Japanese Food. Cheap as in reasonable or best buy pricing; Good as in fresh and well prepared.
My Dear and I found out this Japanese Restaurant in Chinatown, hidden or shadowed by MacDonald, Chinatown Point.
By chance, we got an invitation from the Boss as my Dear posted a ‘heartful’ blogpost about Takaya Bistro. :D & so happen that they opened a branch near my place - Upper Thomson. They took over the place from Sushi OM, which the Boss is an interior designer, so the decor is damn cool. :D
We are fortunate to try their signature dishes at no cost. :p
Takaya Special Appetizer - consists of Celery, Carrot, and the unique roots - Huai Shan (淮山). Not sure what it is called in English, but I know we normally use the dried one for chinese herbal soup.
Japanese Braised Pork - Tender, juicy, not that oily like the Chinese style. Maybe its becoz they din use the belly meat.
Braised Beef - I dun take beef. According to my Dear, its flavourful and tender.
Yaki Shitake - One of my favourite dish! I will always order this dish. Its nicely grilled till crispy on the outside and soft and juicy on the inside. It is lightly sprinkled with salt to bring out the natural shitake sweetness.
Black Pepper Prawn - Spicy. I really do mean spicy. From the first bite onto the de-shelled prawn, I tasted the sweetness of mayonnaise, then the spicyness of the black pepper. The style is like the wasabi prawn, only different is one is wasabi, the other is black pepper.
Lobster Dish - I forgot what is the name of this dish, so I called it the Lobster Dish. The lobster is steam/boiled (not sure), and slices of lemon were inserted in between the meat. Eat it while its warm. Lobster’s meat as compared to prawn, is definitely tougher. This is dish when I tried, its abit over cooked, so the meat is tougher, and the lemon pieces were too thick, so it makes the meat filled with the lemon sour taste. Can’t taste any Lobster’s sweetness. If it was to be a Lobster sashimi (or the meat is 80% cooked) with thin slices of Lemon, might be better.
Salmon Roll - Tempura Prawn wrapped in fresh Salmon sashimi. A pity that I cannot eat the salmon. My Dear ‘undressed’ the roll and let me eat the prawn. One comment : FRESH! Even the prawn is fried, I can still taste its freshness! :D
Grilled Salmon Head - One of their top dishes. I admit that I dun really know how to appreciate Salmon, but this one really caught my taste bud’s attention. The meat is grilled just right, smooth and juicy. The best part is the cheek and the crispy skin!!!! Yummy!!! I LOVE SALMON SKIN!
Cold Sake - I am a wine drinker. Tried Sake before (on airplane), can’t really take the spicyness. Always heard how smooth and tasty warm Sake is, had seldom heard about drink Sake cold. But this one, this particular brand, must drink it cold. Really cannot imagine how sweet and smooth the taste of this cold Sake is. It run down the throat leaving a sweet trace… Shiok!
Grilled Ika - MY FAVOURITE! Not the hokkaido style, but its damn sweet and chewy… Heeheee…. Its all mine, coz my Dear dun take ika! :D
Swordfish Sashimi - One of the expensive sashimi. The Boss insisted that my Dear try it. Coz its rarely served. My Dear said it tasted smooth and firm, bery unlike Salmon which is smooth and soft.
Its not easy to handle Soba or Ramen. Coz you need to be accurate with the cooking time to avoid over cooked or under cooked. Noodles must Q. The soup base is also important as noodles itself is tastless.
So… much of introducation of their dishes. Go try it yourself lah… they got buffet lunch at SGD19.80nett and dinner at SGD23nett. Value for money! Coz their items are very fresh!
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01 Jan 2009 at 9:02 pm
Yap. It's a pity....
02 Jan 2009 at 2:48 pm
Soup is not bad, not like its totally from Campbell. It has additional fresh mushroom. Fried Fish skins and Calamari are addictive though the calamari can be better. My Dear’s Fish & chips uses Dory Fish. I dun really like Dory Fish, coz it has a funny taste. My linguine is a bit too oily. Maybe I should not be too adventurous for a first-time visit.
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