Tonkichi, Ngee Ann CIty

One of the things that I liked about Tonkichi (391 Orchard Road, #04-24 Ngee Ann City, tel : +65 6735 7522) from the first time I ate quite a number of years back was the free flow of shredded cabbage and rice which is offered to all patrons that orders one of their fried meat items on menu. Till today, it's actually still that, which makes me consider coming back to eat. That is, aside from their fried pork cutlets which are one of the exceptions of breaded and deep fried stuff which I like. The cabbage by themselves aren't really anything to get excited over. The magic to that salad is actually the ponzu dressing which makes the boring shredded vegetables one of the most appetizing things that I've had.

And it seems that the dressing now comes with seaweed which adds another depth of fragrance, albeit seaweedy, to the already delicious sauce.

There seems to be some promotional kurobuta items on the menu and I had thought that the minced cutlets with cheese looked appealing. On hindsight, it wasn't too bad with a fairly generous amount of gooey mozzarella in the meat, but it was also something that I probably wouldn't be ordering again.

The braised pork option on the side was actually not too bad as well. What you get is a greasy medley of umami, sweetness and savory packed into a chunk of soft fatty meat. While there are probably better ones of these braised pork bellies around, I've to say that the ones here are rather decent.