I went for dinner at KuShinBo the other day and BOY THE FOOD WAS SO GOOD! Especially the FAT JUICY ALASKAN CRABS. Ooohh.. the white meat was so huge and Soosoo Sweet.
The Buffet had a wide variety of every sort Japanese cuisine, such as fresh succulent Sashimi, Freshly grilled seafood, Soupy stuffs, tempura and more. What surprises me is that they will CHEONG you to eat with their special items. They will play this JINGLE and when you hear it... Get Ready, on your Mud... Get Set.... Go and queue for a special item which ranges from Cheesy Slipper Lobsters to grilled scallops. Boy ... am i salivating now. Even if at the point of time you feel that you have already eaten an elephant, you will still charge for that one small item that you hope it fits in your tummy.
If you are the kind that drinks alot, you should be very glad because you have an assortment of beverages to choose ranging from freshly brewed coffee to tangy fruit punches and more. For those with a raging sweet tooth, they have a wide variety of traditional japanese desserts to fancy cakes, delicious handmade chocolates, cookies, cute fruit tarts, creamy ice creams and our all time favourite... freshly cut fruits. Thats not all yet... They also have a CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN pleasently known as a FONDUE.. How CHIC...
If you miss the days when you get to lick on that brightly coloured cotton candy... so fluffy.. so pretty.. Then don't forget to get one when the DING DING DONG starts... I love that soo soo much, it really brings back alot of childhood memories.
For Food that quality and quantity, Seriously i really don't mind the price... $39.80 for dinner on a weekend sounds prefectly all right... if you had gone hungry for the last 3 days and can seriously make it to gobble up an elephant...
You might not think that its worth the price when you see the tightly placed tables and not so soothing ambience, but when you see the SPREAD OF THE BUFFET.... and taste the sweet sweet Fleshy JUICY CRAB... You will think that its all WORTH IT...
They also do promotions for certain catagories of people at certain time and day... such as Ladies Nite... and lunch or dinner on weekdays are much more affordable.
For those desperate like me and loves to eat....
Start thinking how to reduce your height to less then 1.4m.. because for that you only get to pay $16 at all times.
If you can't then be a senior citizen, you get 10% off at all times. Wah..Lah... FEAST ON....
The food is fabulous, i give all thumbs up including 5 toes...
Definitely not for the weak hearted...
I got a chance to eat the No 1 voted Ramen ~ BLACK PIG SHABU SHABU RAMEN, yesterday @ Tampopo Restaurant.
My sister ordered the ChaSiu Ramen ~ Kyoto Style. While for me, I took the Black Pig Shabu Shabu Ramen, of coz. Same Soup base, juz that mine was more spicy.
The BLACK PORK is OIISHI!!!!! Saw the Fat, but its doesn’t give you the soft soft oily oily taste. Its very thin and tender. Not much ingredient for this though - only pieces of pork and bamboo shoots. However, the ramen is so-so. Like not bery Q-Q type. More like not bery cooked.
We shared the Potato Salad and Agedashi Tofu. Recommended side dish - Potato Salad (coz I din try the rest , no moolah and the serving quite big for two persons leh).
Had another chance, I brought a friend to try the Black Pig Ramen. But I din order the Ramen, I ordered something like the Korean bibimbap. It is OIISHI!!!! I like sauce! Its like the teriyaki sauce, but not so salty. It reminds me of the brown rice that I had at another Jap Restaurant - Teri’s. I like the burnt rice at the bottom (锅巴).
We ordered the Hong Kong Ice Milk Tea, Xiumai（燒賣）, Cheongfun（腸粉）, Zhupabao(豬扒包）, and Mango Ice.
Verdict: Ambience - Not bad, quite cosy (means a bit tight lah) Food - Lots of variety. Have not tried all. Should be good, except for the Zhupabao, the pork slice is abit thin and tough, bread toast is good; and the Cheongfun is the local sweet sauce style, not the soya sauce style with meat fillings. Price - reasonable. Timsum mostly $2.50
Recommended: MANGO ICE! Big portion. Got Strawberry one too!
Other items on the menu: Luncheon Meat with Egg Noodles - This noodle tasted like home-cooked Instant Noodles. Nothing special. Ice Teh-O is GOOD! Thumb-up! As good as the HK Ice Milk Tea. Ice Honey Green Tea ~ so-so only. Tasted a bit bitter though. Thick French Toast is abit too sweet. They pour honey over it, and added a piece of thinly sliced butter on top to let it melt. It looks like Tau Kua. With the honey, it makes it bery soggy. Curry Chix rice - Bery flavourful curry. I like the hard and crunchy potatoes, while my Dear loves the thick curry sauce, and boneless Chix. Shanghainese Chix Chop rice - A different kind of Chix rice. It used olive fried rice. Guo Tian (Fried Dumplings) - Crispy, Juicy. GOOD!!!! :D Black Pepper Chix Rice - Not bad, but a bit ‘jerlat’. Maybe I wasn’t that hungry when I ate it. The black pepper sauce is not that spicy. Black pepper taste is there though. Prawn Paste Chix - Made from Boneless Chix thighs. A bit of butter taste, and a bit oily. My Dear likes it. Fu Pi Juan (Bean Curd Skin wrap with Prawn meat) - Common. Not say that its really that fantastic. No harm trying though. Bo Chai Yun Tun Mian (Wanton Noodles - Dried) - MUST TRY! Its good! The Wanton is crispy. The sauce is juz nice. The spinach noodles are chewy! The Char Xiu are tender but not that kind that melt in the mouth. :p Ham and Egg Sandwich - If they toast the bread, it will be better. The Ham was fried - OILY sia! Xiu Mai - Good! Not very meaty in the sense that it has prawn, so not all pork.
My Dear recently is working on an Advert project on this “Ah Mei”. I as a KPO Queen, of coz, will follow him to Ah Mei to do research.
Saw “Banquet” ~ definitely its HALAH. Ah Mei is also selling things like Ya Kun - KAYA Toast (which I dun like), but they also sell another local favourite - PRATA.
Got ‘real’ fish in the curry. I mean normally we dun get to eat meat with the Prata curry. This branch will give you see the REAL ingredients in the curry.
I think only at Sun Plaza branch then you can eat MINI PRATA. Novena Square Branch dun have.
They sell nasi brani also. But but… its damn expensive leh. One drum stick will cost you SGD2. So I couldn’t part with my 2 bucks in exchange for the orange-crust fried drum stick.
I think different branches will have their own speciality. Coz some of the items can only be found at certain branch.
I never heard about this Miss Clarity Cafe before. Its at Purvis Street. A friend recommended and we went there to have dinner cum supper after an outing.
They serve western and some local favourites. We were lucky to get a table at that late hour coz the cafe was actually quite pack.
My friends ordered Potato Munchskin & Chix Salad. As for me & My Dear, we ordered set dinner. My Dear who dun like Vegetables, surprised me by finishing the salad!
My main dish was Stew Chix with pasta. Actually that’s not my first choice, coz all priority choices were sold out. Frankly speaking, this dish is so-so. Very home-cooked feel. Which means, my mum can cook too. Very suitable for those who missed home-cooked food. The chicken seems to be cooked with out defrosting it. Tough & dry.
My Dear’s main dish was this fried chix bake rice. Eh… also so-so only.
I wanna mentioned My Frienc’s main dish - Lobster linguine. Why? Coz they use the wrong pasta. Linguine was too soft for this dish. Too much of it will make pple feel ’sick’. If its spaghetti (swop with my pasta) then it might be better.
Haaa… mostly seems to be bad comments about the food. :p But for the price, its reasonable, juz that I am a bit picky. :p
I like the soup, salad and ICE CREAM…. Haaa… not their main dish. Maybe becoz all these are not their ‘direct’ product. :p
My sis brought me to this HongKong Cafe (师奶茶餐厅) at Novena for dinner. I have never try anything there before. I always go to the Xin Wang for Hongkong cafe food. Din like Tong Shui’s food also.
The menu is filled with alot of dishes. My sis wondered if all the items listed are available. I told her that the basic ingredients are there, cooking style different only.
We ordered a couple of things. Hongkong Milk Tea Sliced Fish with Flat Rice Noodles 鱼片三捞河粉 Seafood Buckwheat Noodles 海鲜伊付面 Dim Sum - Har Kaw & Pork Ribs
Verdict - TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT 1. Sliced Fish with Flat Rice Noodles 鱼片三捞河粉 Bland, tasteless. I add alot of green chilli and red chilli still find it inedible. So not to waste food, I finished only the tastless sliced fish.
2. Steam Pork Ribs Not flavourful too. Oily. No meat. Yes, I know its pork ribs, so you can expect it to be meaty. But i din expect it to be so boney.
At least things that my sis ordered are still edible - the milk tea, the buckwheat noodle and the Har Kaw. Yeah, at least its filled with prawn and not minced pork with a bit of prawn.
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.
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!
1=SGD 0.0587
Ding Ding Dong... KuShinBo...
Does it ring a bell?
I went for dinner at KuShinBo the other day and BOY THE FOOD WAS SO GOOD! Especially the FAT JUICY ALASKAN CRABS. Ooohh.. the white meat was so huge and Soosoo Sweet.
The Buffet had a wide variety of every sort Japanese cuisine, such as fresh succulent Sashimi, Freshly grilled seafood, Soupy stuffs, tempura and more. What surprises me is that they will CHEONG you to eat with their special items. They will play this JINGLE and when you hear it... Get Ready, on your Mud... Get Set.... Go and queue for a special item which ranges from Cheesy Slipper Lobsters to grilled scallops. Boy ... am i salivating now. Even if at the point of time you feel that you have already eaten an elephant, you will still charge for that one small item that you hope it fits in your tummy.
If you are the kind that drinks alot, you should be very glad because you have an assortment of beverages to choose ranging from freshly brewed coffee to tangy fruit punches and more. For those with a raging sweet tooth, they have a wide variety of traditional japanese desserts to fancy cakes, delicious handmade chocolates, cookies, cute fruit tarts, creamy ice creams and our all time favourite... freshly cut fruits. Thats not all yet... They also have a CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN pleasently known as a FONDUE.. How CHIC...
If you miss the days when you get to lick on that brightly coloured cotton candy... so fluffy.. so pretty.. Then don't forget to get one when the DING DING DONG starts... I love that soo soo much, it really brings back alot of childhood memories.
For Food that quality and quantity, Seriously i really don't mind the price... $39.80 for dinner on a weekend sounds prefectly all right... if you had gone hungry for the last 3 days and can seriously make it to gobble up an elephant...
You might not think that its worth the price when you see the tightly placed tables and not so soothing ambience, but when you see the SPREAD OF THE BUFFET.... and taste the sweet sweet Fleshy JUICY CRAB... You will think that its all WORTH IT...
They also do promotions for certain catagories of people at certain time and day... such as Ladies Nite... and lunch or dinner on weekdays are much more affordable.
For those desperate like me and loves to eat....
Start thinking how to reduce your height to less then 1.4m.. because for that you only get to pay $16 at all times.
If you can't then be a senior citizen, you get 10% off at all times. Wah..Lah... FEAST ON....
The food is fabulous, i give all thumbs up including 5 toes...
Definitely not for the weak hearted...
Rating given:
I got a chance to eat the No 1 voted Ramen ~ BLACK PIG SHABU SHABU RAMEN, yesterday @ Tampopo Restaurant.
My sister ordered the ChaSiu Ramen ~ Kyoto Style. While for me, I took the Black Pig Shabu Shabu Ramen, of coz. Same Soup base, juz that mine was more spicy.
The BLACK PORK is OIISHI!!!!! Saw the Fat, but its doesn’t give you the soft soft oily oily taste. Its very thin and tender. Not much ingredient for this though - only pieces of pork and bamboo shoots. However, the ramen is so-so. Like not bery Q-Q type. More like not bery cooked.
We shared the Potato Salad and Agedashi Tofu. Recommended side dish - Potato Salad (coz I din try the rest , no moolah and the serving quite big for two persons leh).
Had another chance, I brought a friend to try the Black Pig Ramen. But I din order the Ramen, I ordered something like the Korean bibimbap. It is OIISHI!!!! I like sauce! Its like the teriyaki sauce, but not so salty. It reminds me of the brown rice that I had at another Jap Restaurant - Teri’s. I like the burnt rice at the bottom (锅巴).
Rating given:
We ordered the Hong Kong Ice Milk Tea, Xiumai（燒賣）, Cheongfun（腸粉）, Zhupabao(豬扒包）, and Mango Ice.
Verdict:
Ambience - Not bad, quite cosy (means a bit tight lah)
Food - Lots of variety. Have not tried all. Should be good, except for the Zhupabao, the pork slice is abit thin and tough, bread toast is good; and the Cheongfun is the local sweet sauce style, not the soya sauce style with meat fillings.
Price - reasonable. Timsum mostly $2.50
Recommended: MANGO ICE! Big portion. Got Strawberry one too!
Other items on the menu:
Luncheon Meat with Egg Noodles - This noodle tasted like home-cooked Instant Noodles. Nothing special.
Ice Teh-O is GOOD! Thumb-up! As good as the HK Ice Milk Tea.
Ice Honey Green Tea ~ so-so only. Tasted a bit bitter though.
Thick French Toast is abit too sweet. They pour honey over it, and added a piece of thinly sliced butter on top to let it melt. It looks like Tau Kua. With the honey, it makes it bery soggy.
Curry Chix rice - Bery flavourful curry. I like the hard and crunchy potatoes, while my Dear loves the thick curry sauce, and boneless Chix.
Shanghainese Chix Chop rice - A different kind of Chix rice. It used olive fried rice.
Guo Tian (Fried Dumplings) - Crispy, Juicy. GOOD!!!! :D
Black Pepper Chix Rice - Not bad, but a bit ‘jerlat’. Maybe I wasn’t that hungry when I ate it. The black pepper sauce is not that spicy. Black pepper taste is there though.
Prawn Paste Chix - Made from Boneless Chix thighs. A bit of butter taste, and a bit oily. My Dear likes it.
Fu Pi Juan (Bean Curd Skin wrap with Prawn meat) - Common. Not say that its really that fantastic. No harm trying though.
Bo Chai Yun Tun Mian (Wanton Noodles - Dried) - MUST TRY! Its good! The Wanton is crispy. The sauce is juz nice. The spinach noodles are chewy! The Char Xiu are tender but not that kind that melt in the mouth. :p
Ham and Egg Sandwich - If they toast the bread, it will be better. The Ham was fried - OILY sia!
Xiu Mai - Good! Not very meaty in the sense that it has prawn, so not all pork.
Rating given:
My Dear recently is working on an Advert project on this “Ah Mei”. I as a KPO Queen, of coz, will follow him to Ah Mei to do research.
Saw “Banquet” ~ definitely its HALAH. Ah Mei is also selling things like Ya Kun - KAYA Toast (which I dun like), but they also sell another local favourite - PRATA.
Got ‘real’ fish in the curry. I mean normally we dun get to eat meat with the Prata curry. This branch will give you see the REAL ingredients in the curry.
I think only at Sun Plaza branch then you can eat MINI PRATA. Novena Square Branch dun have.
They sell nasi brani also. But but… its damn expensive leh. One drum stick will cost you SGD2. So I couldn’t part with my 2 bucks in exchange for the orange-crust fried drum stick.
I think different branches will have their own speciality. Coz some of the items can only be found at certain branch.
Rating given:
I never heard about this Miss Clarity Cafe before. Its at Purvis Street. A friend recommended and we went there to have dinner cum supper after an outing.
They serve western and some local favourites. We were lucky to get a table at that late hour coz the cafe was actually quite pack.
My friends ordered Potato Munchskin & Chix Salad. As for me & My Dear, we ordered set dinner. My Dear who dun like Vegetables, surprised me by finishing the salad!
My main dish was Stew Chix with pasta. Actually that’s not my first choice, coz all priority choices were sold out. Frankly speaking, this dish is so-so. Very home-cooked feel. Which means, my mum can cook too. Very suitable for those who missed home-cooked food. The chicken seems to be cooked with out defrosting it. Tough & dry.
My Dear’s main dish was this fried chix bake rice. Eh… also so-so only.
I wanna mentioned My Frienc’s main dish - Lobster linguine. Why? Coz they use the wrong pasta. Linguine was too soft for this dish. Too much of it will make pple feel ’sick’. If its spaghetti (swop with my pasta) then it might be better.
Haaa… mostly seems to be bad comments about the food. :p But for the price, its reasonable, juz that I am a bit picky. :p
I like the soup, salad and ICE CREAM…. Haaa… not their main dish. Maybe becoz all these are not their ‘direct’ product. :p
Rating given:
My sis brought me to this HongKong Cafe (师奶茶餐厅) at Novena for dinner. I have never try anything there before. I always go to the Xin Wang for Hongkong cafe food. Din like Tong Shui’s food also.
The menu is filled with alot of dishes. My sis wondered if all the items listed are available. I told her that the basic ingredients are there, cooking style different only.
We ordered a couple of things.
Hongkong Milk Tea
Sliced Fish with Flat Rice Noodles 鱼片三捞河粉
Seafood Buckwheat Noodles 海鲜伊付面
Dim Sum - Har Kaw & Pork Ribs
Verdict - TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT
1. Sliced Fish with Flat Rice Noodles 鱼片三捞河粉
Bland, tasteless. I add alot of green chilli and red chilli still find it inedible.
So not to waste food, I finished only the tastless sliced fish.
2. Steam Pork Ribs
Not flavourful too. Oily. No meat. Yes, I know its pork ribs, so you can expect it to be meaty. But i din expect it to be so boney.
At least things that my sis ordered are still edible - the milk tea, the buckwheat noodle and the Har Kaw. Yeah, at least its filled with prawn and not minced pork with a bit of prawn.
Rating given:
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.
Sorry, my verdict is abit too harsh.
Rating given:
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.
We ordered the California maki - good! :D
Rating given:
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.
Rating given:
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!
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