Located in the west side of Singapore at Hong Leong Garden Shopping Centre, is this piece of gem that's tucked away from the city life and reflects none of the bustling acivities of the AYE close to it. When we arrived at HLGSC in the evening, the area was sleepy and just dotted with a random few people walking around. This place seems to specialise in Japanese eateries as there were a quite a handful around and we saw quite a few Japanese in the area too.
Sliding open the door, you will enter into what looks like a tiny and cosy dining room, filled with artifacts, trinklets and Japanese comic books. Its a very authentic feel. The kitchen is right beside the dining tables and separated by a curtain. I remember sitting there and feeling as if I was right at home sitting at my own dining table, waiting for dinner while my own mother fussed about in the kitchen.
Look, even the menu is the same from the first day they opened which has been like more than a decade ago. Its mostly in handwritten Japanese with English pronunciation but not English meaning.
If there is no one in the restaurant, you can try asking the very sweet and lovely daughter of the chef (it is after all only a mother and daughter's affair here) to kindly explain to you.
A very special tea is served here.
Instead of the usual green tea, its roasted barley tea. Yup, you read it right. Its called Ocha in Japanese. Other than the make up of the tea which is quite special, its taste is surprising too. If you smell it, it gives out the aroma of coffee. Its a light tea which was quite good to wash down your dinner with at the end.
We ordered two appetisers. The first one we had was chicken gizzard. Its some organ part of the chicken.
Its chewy in texture if you're wondering what its like. Not smelly or anything so no worries there. The gizzards were nicely pan fried with onion, green capsicum and sesame. The onion nearly stole the show because it was downright delicious. It honestly the best cooked onion I've ever ate. It was kind of sweet and maybe it was because all the ingredients really complimented each other that made this dish become one of the highlights of the evening.
Another appetiser which we greedily ordered after eating the first (because it was so damn good and prices were affordable) was the above. That's squid cooked with butter. As again, sesame was generously sprinkled on it. There was also some lemon taste to the squid. A well done dish, but it was nothing special. At this stage, I was starting to think I should also add sesame into the food I cook next time because it goes well with almost anything!
For our "main course", we ordered their chicken katsudon, which is deep fried chicken cutlet lovingly coated with egg on top of a bottom layer of warm rice. It comes in a set, so there's those pickled stuff, tofu and a bowl of miso soup.
Looks like those Japanese drama whereby you eat your food (which always looked very heartwarming and delicious)from a square box! The whole dish was drizzled with some sauce so if you eat the soft egg with onion and the rice, its almost like pringles - once you pop, you can't stop. Its dangerous for those on a diet. The chicken cutlet is deep fried well and the meat was thick and wasn't tough. It seems to be those bread crumbs cutlet though. Overall, above average, but not exactly mind blowing.
This is their unagi (eel) set. Its beautiful this dish. The colours made it look very inviting and it tasted as good as it look. The unagi expertly poses on the bed of soft and slightly runny egg which is supported by the firm foundation of warm rice. This is how you eat it. Dig from the top to the bottom and eat all three layers in one scoop. Oishi, I tell you. The eel was very soft till it seemed to be able to melt in your mouth. It was just the right hint of sweetness and its the sesame again I tell you. Everything with sesame is good. That must be their secret. This dish is an enormous obstacle if you're on a diet.
Chako serves home made (fresh!) ice cream too. There's fruit kinds such as mango, strawberry, pear and usual favourites like black sesame.
Their ice cream are the most health conscious ones I've tried. Its really low in sugar and made with yogurt too. So overall taste was very light. However, it seems to have tiny ice bits in it... Not very sure if it comes with authentic home made ice cream. Not horrible at all, but its those kind that one serving is enough. But you can order it just to know how a healthy ice cream is supposed to taste like! I'm not saying that the flavour is not there at all. In fact, its quite strong. So that's good.
In conclusion, Chako felt extremely homely, cosy and warm. It really felt as if my mummy was right in the kitchen cooking dinner for me while I laze around reading comics or magazines. They cook everything on the spot so nothing is made in advance. Expect to wait quite a while. Even though we were the only customers that night, we had to wait around 20 -30 minutes for the first appetiser to appear because Madam Chako is the only chef. But the wait is worth it. This meal cost about $70 in total and for such quality, I give my thumbs up.
Please make reservations as they have limited seating and who knows that day she might have a full house.
Restaurant Chako
134 West Coast Way (Hong Leong Garden Shopping Centre)
Opening hours:
Lunch - 12.15pm to 2.30pm (Only available from Mon - Friday)
Dinner - 6.30pm to 10.30pm
Tel: 67763919 (Reservations required)
I was going for a spa with my best friend that day at Mosque Street and we saw Togi. Its not a big restaurant and its space was not wide but long. There were seats inside and outside.
For that day, they were having a promotion for their BBQ pork belly. We saw a table having it and it looked quite nice so we were sold.
As with Korean restaurants, they always give you appetisers. Yum.
Mostly pickled vegetables and ikan bilis. Some were really nice though. They tasted mostly sweet, sour and spicy at the same time.
The lady cooked the pork belly for us while some table cooked it themselves. So I guess you can request to do it yourself. It was quite nice to watch the pork belly turn colour and into something crispy at the edges and with the oil oozing out. I'm a bit afraid of pork belly so I thought it was ok. I only eat the meat parts and the crispy parts and waste the fatty bits. My friend who knows how to appreciate pork belly loves every bit of it though! :)
We order two more dishes. Bim Bim Ba and a noodles dish.
Personally, I feel this dish is a very healthy dish. Mostly vegetables and if you add chilli (which you should, if you are a chilli lover), its like making the perfect mixture in the test tube during chemistry class.
I enjoyed the noodles dish below a lot.
The noodles were cooked very well, not too soft, not too hard. Its springy like, almost similar to maggie mee, but in a good way. There's also some dumplings in the dish, plus this tube shaped floury Korean thing. It's a well known Korean food, but I'm not sure what its called. Not a fan of the floury thing though. It gives me carbohydrates nightmare. Back to the noodles, I LOVE IT! Its more spicier than the dish above. The chilli is a bit tangy too.
Overall, this Korean dinner was good. Many other dishes in the menu looks yummy too.
Togi Korean Restaurant
11 Mosque Street
Singapore 059491
Tel: 62210830
Raffles City Shopping Centre has an exciting food basement. There are SO many food outlets there and plenty of them are actually quite good! Having eaten too many of Central Mall's delicious ramen, we chanced upon Sapporo Ramen Bishamon and decided to give it a try.
We ordered their Shio and Shoyu ramen. Shio mean salt while shoyu means soy sauce.
Well, the ramen here are different from the ones at Central Mall or at Liang Court. I would say even though each strand of ramen looks about the same size as the previously mentioned places, the version here actually tasted as if its thicker. So I would guess they use more flour maybe?
This is how the noodles look like...
The char siew is actually thicker too. It isn't melt in your mouth but more meaty. The seaweed they used is quite good. Very strong seaweed flavour when you eat it, even though it has been soaking in the soup for a while. The shio ramen soup tasted more of a pork based one and it was kind of milky too. I thought it was slightly above average but not as good as Marutama ramen (I've wrote an entry on them before) but its not really fair to compare cos Marutama uses chicken as their base.
For their shoyu ramen,
the char siew and seaweed are the same, but the soup does not have the milky taste. Its more light. And don't worry if you think this is just soy sauce plus water. Its better than that. But as again, just a slightly above average ramen.
Their egg is very good though! The yolk will just flow out.
If you have never tried the ramen at The Central Mall before, you'd think the ramen here is maybe good. But the ones at the central mall is still better - Marutama (3rd floor) and Santouka (2nd floor).
And also, the prices here are a little more expensive too.
Would I go back? Yeah. If I am in Raffles City and I feel like having something soupy. But I wouldn't crave for this ramen.
Sapporo Ramen Bishamon
Raffles City Shopping Centre
252 North Bridge Road
#B1-17
Tel: 6235 2890
Lunch is always the best time for foodies. Especially when you have set menus which is like 1/4 of a full dinner price. And that to me is always a super good deal.
What's note worthy of Rakuichi is that it has two chefs that used to work in Kuriya. That means that their standard can't be that bad. And its true! :) We were asking one of the waitress if Rakuichi belongs to Kuriya and she was confused for a while and she said "ya" so I'm not really certain if this is part of Kuriya. There were 3 different lunch set meals to offer here. Set A,B and C.
As you can see, there's a whole array of its-worth-your-money selection since Set A is only $21.90. There's sashimi, grilled salmon, sesame tofu, soft shell crab, miso soup and rice. Before the set lunches are served, you'll get a small bowl of salad too and later on, black sesame ice cream for dessert. The sashimi slices were fresh and thick but I think the winner here was the sesame tofu. It was really very well done. It looks like regular tofu with that regular taste we all know too well, but this sesame tofu REALLY has sesame taste to it. You'll even forget its supposed to be tofu. The grilled salmon could be juicier though cos I found it a bit dry for my liking. The rest were good and the black sesame ice cream was really yummy.
If you are willing to pay an extra $6 or so, you get Set C. Which is about the same as Set A, just that it has King Crab Chawanmushi, some small crunchy prawns, peas and grilled corn. Not as worth it as Set A still.
Overall, it was a nice lunch affair at Rakuichi. Service was prompt and our green tea were refilled quickly. Its quite a small restaurant though and during lunch time, most seats were filled. They had a range of seafood on ice which was on display at the counter top and I must say it looked very delicious and I was staring at the oysters and shellfish the whole time. A nice place to get away while in Orchard.
Rakuichi Japanese Restaurant
Far East Shopping Centre (Beside Wheelock Place)
545 Orchard Road #03-11
Singapore 238882
Tel: 6737 0757
In recent years, ayam penyet (a dish with its origins from Indonesia), otherwise known as smashed fried chicken/ flattened fried chicken has been gaining wider coverage (newspapers and magazines) and distribution (more outlets). Previously, before I tried the dish I was always trying to imagine how it will look like. Somehow the image of something along the line of a smashed watermelon will come to mind. But nah... its not like that. In fact, its like this.
As you can see, its not horribly mangled. In fact, the purpose of flattening the chicken is to tenderise the meat and let the flavour seep in better. At Waroeng Penyet, their ayam penyet is marinated with Java special sauce and then fried to perfection. No ayam penyet is complete without its side kick - the spicy and hot till your tastebuds are on fire sambal chilli.
Lucky Plaza has a famous stall that sell this dish but I think this is even nicer than theirs. Because unlike the Lucky Plaza one, this stall has managed to fry the chicken skin till it is most fantastically crispy and yet being able to retain the moistness and flavour of the chicken meat itself. When you use your fork and spoon to tear the meat away from the bone you can even hear the crunch when the meat and skin comes off.
I would say, this is the best malay style fried chicken that I have ever eaten in my life.
Their chilli is crazy. Its so spicy that I thought my tastebuds were about to catch fire. But luckily I have a cup of Lime juice at my side to sooth my tastebuds at the same time. But do I like the chilli even though its quite spicy? You bet I do. For people who don't usually have chilli with any of their food, you may curse the chilli here, but for others, you'd love it.
Best ayam penyet by far. But prices are also steeper than the rest. The ayam penyet here is $5.50 and rice is at an additional charge of $0.50. There's a new outlet at Changi Village too!
Waroeng Penyet
Block 81, #01-638
Marine Parade Central (Opposite Marine Parade Polyclinic)
Singapore 440081
Tel: 63441235
It gives me great and immense pleasure to be finally able to write about Iggy's.
SO MUCH have been said about this restaurant. Top 100 in the world, a personal favourite of Chubbyhubby (the food blogger) and ranked No. 1 in Singapore. Les Amis and My Humble House used to be in the top 100 for last year too. And we tried Les Amis in 2007 and some dishes are still unforgettable. The head chef for Les Amis has since changed and went on to open his own restaurant in Purvis Street (stay tuned for that!!! :D )
Back to Iggy's. Even its name looks great by itself!
That's the entrance of the resturant and even its name in bold, strong and golden letters are showing you a glimpse of the gastronomical heaven that you will go into.
I've read countless reviews about this place. It seems that the counter seats are highly coveted for and by sitting at the counter, you can see the chefs themselves in action, creating your lovely food. For more privacy, we sat at the proper tables and chairs area instead where we were in a separate section with about 4 or 5 tables which were spaced at a very comfortable distance apart. There were even built in book shelves which hold plenty of food books like "Fast Food Nation", a book by Gordon Ramsey and food guides for countries like Japan etc. This section exudes a very homely feel and you'll feel relaxed, comfortable and happy to be served with their food.
Their complimentary bread was the best I ever ate. When it arrived, it was warm and when you spread butter on it, the butter will melt and lovingly cover the bread. The crust was done very well and according to some foreign expert reviewer, their bread is as good as some excellent fine dining French restaurants.
Lunch at Iggy's is a very affordable affair. It's $55++ for a three course meal and $75++ for a four course meal. If you choose to have wagyu striploin, it will be $95++ and $110++ respectively.
Their appetisers are crazy. Every single one sounds so good. We tried the following:
1. QUAIL (Galantine of quail and foie gras with frisee salad and fig coulis)
- Foie gras will never be wrong! Average dish.
2. GNOCCHI (Home- made potato gnocchi with truffle salsa and soft-boiled eggs)
- The egg yolk sitting in the middle of the gnocchi looks so ready to erupt. The dish was kind of salty though. But interesting.
3. RISOTTO (Squid ink risotto with charcoal- grilled baby octopus)
4. PAPPARDELLE (Pappardelle with mushrooms and Kurobuta pork cheek)
Its tough to exactly describe the taste of every appetiser because each one brings a totally different flavour to it. Each one was a totally exciting sight to behold but the best out of the four was the Risotto. The risotto (rice) was fantabulous and just wait till you place the baby octopus into your mouth and sink your teeth into it. Oooh... The char-grilled flavour comes out immediately and the meat is just tender enough. Just thinking of this dish makes me go ahhhhhh.
The pappardelle with the Kurobuta pork cheek (the equivalent of kobe beef on the pork hierarchy) was savoury and nicely done. Pappardelle is a type of pasta. The pork meat was very flavourful and the combination of the pappardelle with the pasta is very well done.
Moving on to the acclaimed and most famous dish at Iggy's. Every table ordered at least one for main course. It's the Iggy's burger!! (I am not posting the photo because its best to let your imagination run wild) I love the wagyu beef patty! The beef is minced and some people may not like that, but I think its great. I'm not very sure on how to describe the most delicious beef patty I've tried. Juicy, it is. Flavoursome, it is too. Even at the very least, this burger is above average. Its damn good to me though. Its a mini burger so don't expect it to be huge or anything.
Dessert time, we had GRAND MARNIER (Grand marnier souffle with home-made Java vanilla ice cream) and CHEESE CAKE (Cheese cake with berry compote and strawberry shortcake).
Cheese cake was ok but I didn't think the base was good enough. The strawberry shortcake was smooth and yogurt-y. Doesn't seem sinful to me which is good!
The souffle was not exactly all puff and nothing great. But this was the only second time I tried souffle and I have no experience in judging how good it really is. I'd say its good and there were some custard. I like it better when I put a bit of vanilla ice cream onto my spoon of souffle and eat it like that.
Overall, it was a wonderful journey into the world of Iggy's. Lunch moved at a relax pace of about 1.5 hours for a four course meal and I'd like to go back again =)
Iggy's
The Regent Singapore
Level 3, 1 Cuscaden Road
Singapore 249715
Tel: 6732 2234
Opening hours: LUNCH: Mon - Fri (12pm to 2pm), DINNER: Mon - Sun (7pm to 930)
Bukit Timah has lots of swanky joints. Relish is an outlet opened by the same people behind Wild Rocket at Mt Emily (Have not been there though) and focuses on burgers.
Their most reviewed and talked about burger is undisputedly the Wild Rocket burger. The beef patty is described as thick and juicy. Check it out below.
The burger is tall and one will wonder which is the best way to eat it - with hands or with the fork and knife? Nonetheless, when you cut into the beef patty, its scrumptious juice will ooze out. The beef patty looks so thick and yummy that I can still vividly see it in my mind. According to Chubbyhubby, this is the next best burger after his no. 1, which is Iggy's wagyu beef burger. Anyhow, the fries are pretty good and if you think that the burger will not fill up your stomach, the fries will. Oh yeah, ask for their mustard sauce. There's no other better way to eat the fries than dipping it in mustard. $15 only.
We tried their Seafood Burger with Lemon Mayo. What's in the seafood package? Crab, squid, fish and prawn. I particularly like their lemon mayo which is another great pairing with the seafood burger. The seafood patty is great. I could see bits and pieces of the 4 kinds of seafood in it when I bite into it.
What I like about Relish is that visually, their patties are thick, wholesome and juicy. I will definitely be back if I ever want to have burgers. This costs $19.
They serve all their burgers with specially selected beers. And from the way the burgers turn out, they should definitely know what they are they doing and I bet the beers will indeed be excellently paired up.
Relish
501 Bukit Timah Road
#02-01 Cluny Court
Singapore 259760
Tel: 67631547
http://www.wildrocket.com.sg/relish.htm
Opening hours: Mon - Fri: Noon - 3pm, 6pm - 11pm, Weekends: Noon - 11pm
Adam Road Hawker Centre is most famous for their nasi lemak, but today we're not gonna talk about that. Since nasi lemak can be quite subjective and I don't eat nasi lemak.
There is a prawn noodles stall there which is quite prominent. Crabs filled with a salivating amount of orange and yellow roe and big, fat and juicy prawns stare out at you from within the stall display. They serve pork ribs prawn noodles too, but I have not thought of it till now, but maybe you can order pork ribs prawn noodles with crab! I bet that will be the most expensive bowl of noodles you will ever buy at a hawker centre. It sounds like a dream combination though ;)
Their soup is the clear kind and while there is prawn flavour to the soup, its not strong enough for me. The kuay teow that I ordered with the prawn noodles is at the bottom and its the thinner kind. Having such big prawns are a major plus factor for me and I will say that this dish is above average. I would say the prawn noodles stall at Lavender Food Centre has the best soup. Just mentioning it is enough to make me want a bowl now.
The crab version is the same. Just no prawns inside the soup that is cooked with prawns. The treasure you are looking for is underneath its shell. You should go discover it yourself. It will burst any cholesterol meter. But it will not hurt once in a while. Haha. It costs something along $8 to $10 for a bowl with half crab. One full crab will be almost twice the price.
There is another stall which is quite good. It only specialises in Mee soto and mee siam! This is a Malay stall and it has a red sign board. For me, this is the best mee soto in Singapore. The soup is damn tasty and satisfying. The chicken meat soft and tender enough. Extremely good for rainy days or when you are looking for some savoury soup.
Alternatively, you can just order the chicken and soup without the noodles and that will be fantastic too.
Chen Fu Ji is an old establishment since the time when Chinatown was still real and not a psuedo cultural tourist trap. Can't remember when was that? More than fifty years ago. Many things have since changed.
From the start, their fried rice have been extremely well received. And in those days, mostly middle-lower and blue collared workers patronised the stall.
What exactly is so special about this fried rice which costs about $18 for a two person serving? According to their website:
1. The four treasures in cooking - shallots, garlic, ginger and spring onion
2. Rice that is carefuly selected for its grain size, texture and mositure content
3. Rice which is cooked and conditioned prior frying
4. Each grain of rice is fused with egg, giving it a smooth texture and golden hue
5. A distinctive aroma when served
6. Heap of unique egg floss and freshly peeled crab meat
7. No hint of oil
And I'd say I agree with all that. Every rice grain is really "golden" from the egg used. The crab meat was everywhere, the egg floss was really delicious AND there was no hint of oil. The dish was served in a black claypot like pot. When the lid was uncovered, it looked good perhaps with the contrast of golden against the black pot.
Is it worth the $18? Yes. For a first novelty try to find out what the fuss is about anyway. Will I eat it again? Maybe once every few years. But its not because it is lousy, but because I am not a huge fan of rice and my mother can whip up a plate of above average fried rice which is almost similar to theirs. And I can add in my own crab meat! Maybe I'll bite off one huge chunk of crab pincer and go along with my mum's fried rice instead.
Chen Fu Ji
3 outlets at Riverside Point, Suntec City and Changi Airport Terminal 2
http://www.chenfuji.com.sg/eng/
After Akane at The Japanese Association closed down, the next best place to have good Japanese food had to be a Tatsuya. After all, the head chef, Ronnie Chia (whose Japanese name is Tatsuya), is a disciple of Yoshio Nogawa at Akane.
So armed with some kind of expectation and a pocket which is ready to be burnt with a hole, our journey at Tatsuya begins.
The counter seats are where the action is. Unless you want privacy or you are afraid of sharp knives and chefs in white robes, just skip everything else and sit (make a RESERVATION first) at the counter.
Our first insight into the world of Tatsuya was this dish
The fish roe tasted different from those I've tried at Kuriya. The transparent and soft shell enclosing the fish roe juice (?) did not just break and disappear. It seemed as if the covering was thicker perhaps. Every spoonful of the roe gave way to a delightful burst in the mouth.
Our second dish was this plate of small red tomato. It's not exactly baby tomato because its not that small. The tomato flesh was firm and the insides were juicy and it was slightly naturally sweet. Did it taste a lot different from those normal red tomato we get from the supermarket? Well... maybe a bit. But of course this was better.
I think this was Angelfish liver. It's in the middle of the plate, the semi circle orange looking thing. It's very delicious and fresh. But nothing great. We had this at Akane too. Can't help with the comparison, but I vaguely remember that the one I had at Akane was better.
Ok! So after giving our mouth and stomach a good warm up, it was time for the real stuff! Sashimi! Everything was exceptionally fresh by which I mean you do not get this kind of quality at Sakae Sushi or whatever Japanese restaurant in whatever shopping centre. Prawn not as sweet as Akane. Haha.
This dish was suddenly popped up in front of us all the way from the kitchen. It's actually yam ball with unagi (eel) and mushroom as fillings. There were some pieces of prawn soaking up the atmosphere in the gravvy too. The yam ball was good enough to please any yam fans. The unagi however seemed to have teleported half of itself to somewhere else because there was not really enough of it. But it was amazing. The amount of stuffing inside the small ball.
The next time I go for a snorkelling trip, I will never look at rock fish the same way again. The fish was steamed and the meat had a sweet flavour to it. Taste like most well steamed fishes though. Personally I feel it is very hard to cook an exceptional fish dish.
Had a little break with some crunchy cucumbers. The red sauce looks like sambal but in actual fact it tasted kind of fermented. It was not horrible but made a nice and interesting dip to the cucumber.
Our first sushi for the night was this tuna belly sushi. Right before it was presented to us, the tuna belly was torched with a flame. Maybe I am seriously hung up with Akane or something, but this lagged behind to the tuna belly at Akane. This was delicious yes, but out of this world? No.
When we asked for recommendation for their soups, the waitress introduced us their tuna belly soup which I believe if I didn't hear wrongly was double boiled. The soup was light and clear with some oil floating at the surface but I attributed that to the presence of the tuna belly. Tuna belly meat itself was soft and it almost melted in my mouth right away. It wasn't as salty as the one at Akane and this version had better cooked tuna belly meat but maybe because I'm such a loyal fan, and because Nogawa is the master, I still prefer Akane.
We had prawn sashimi too and this too was torched. You can see the torched parts which are slightly black on the top. You know how prawns smell like when you barbeque them? It had the exact smell and taste when I tried it. Just that other than the torched part, the rest was raw and it was enjoyable as a whole.
This was an interesting and unique sushi. Scallop topped with goose liver. I thought this was worth it. The slight sweetness from the fresh scallop and the rich taste of the goose liver came together and the result was something really beautiful. My stomach can attest to that. YUM!
The chef behind the counter said this was sweet eel sushi. I don't know if this eel is different from unagi but if it is unagi, he would have just said that it's unagi right? The eel's meat was not as soft as other places, but at least the eel was not drenched with too much sweet sauce. Not too bad.
I think with most top notch Japanese restaurants, the peice of seaweed wrapping around the rice was exceptionally good. It had an above average crisp and it smelled and tasted very very good too. When you eat the whole thing together, you yourself can hear the slight crunch of the seaweed. The sea urchin sushi was almost identical to the one I tried at Akane but just that the see urchin itself tasted slightly different. There was another dish we had which I didn't get to take a photo of. It was wrapped with seaweed too but kind of in the shape of a california roll but ours were more like folded into a long and slim rectangle. It was filled with long thin slices of cucumber, those very very tiny orange ball which I do not know what it is called and also very crispy salmon skin. Wow. This had to be the best thing I ate for the whole dinner.
Before we eat this tamago(egg) sushi we were lalready ike pregnant whales. But since Tatsuya is not a place we come just for fun everyday, we ordered this anyway because only a good japanese restaurant can make a good tamago because this requires a lot of skills. The egg that you see here has a lot of layers. Just that its not visible in this photo. And verdict? It was good no less, but we're not really sure how good or better it is to the rest cos they all kind of taste the same just that some places may have sweeter versions.
For the closing ceremony for our stomach, we had honeydew which was sweet and chilled and we had a little bit of cheese cake in a martini glass and black sesame ice cream. The cheese cake was not really a cake. There was hardly any cake layer but the cheese mousse like parts were really very good with a satisfying cheese after taste.
Their black sesame ice cream was not home made but from Japan. Quite a good version.
Overall, the meal at Tatsuya was quite an experience. The sashimi and sushi were no doubt very good and very fresh but because I still cannot get over Akane, I would say its still second fiddle. However, if you have not tried Akane before, Tatsuya will not fail you. The chefs at the counter were all very friendly and the waitresses were knowledgeable about what was offered and they were very attentive.
Tatsuya Japanese Restaurant
Park Hotel Orchard
Tel: 67371160
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