Saturday, October 22, 2016

Tsukada Nojo, Chinatown Point

Tsukada Nojo, Chinatown Point

We’ve been curious about Tsukada Nojo (#02-37 Chinatown Point, 133 New Bridge Rd, tel : +65 6444 8840) for almost as long as they have set up shop (and subsequently a few outlets). Their success by far has hinged largely on their bijin nabe - a beauty collagen hotpot. Certainly piques more than a little of curiosity.

Tsukada Nojo, collagen pudding

Anyways, it’s a hotpot that’s done with their “golden collagen chicken stock”. A stock made with free range Jidori chickens from the Miyazaki prefecture in Kyushu. From what I read on their site, the chicken are stewed for 8 hours until their bones are dissolved. Said stock is then cooled into collagen puddings which pretty much forms the base broth.

Tsukada Nojo, collagen chicken stock

Those puddings melt with heat from the induction stove built onto the tables. There's some chicken hidden in there as well.

Tsukada Nojo, ume chicken salad

And then a starter we ordered was served. Shredded steamed chicken with julienned cucumber, ume dressing and shiso. This was kinda nice.

Tsukada Nojo, nabe ingredients

The ingredients were pretty much the standard for all their hot pots. It seems that these guys have sourced local organic vegetables here. The only additional protein apart from the chicken are tsukune (chicken meat balls) and some prawns. Those prawns were really sweet by the way. One can of course top up with extras and add-on options. We stuck to the default since it was our first time. 

Tsukada Nojo, chicken broth

A cup of the unadulterated broth ladled out for tasting. Good stuff.

Tsukada Nojo, chicken

Meat is removed from the broth before the rest of the hotpot ingredients are put in. Chicken was pretty tender. Works with their yuzu pepper if you don't know what to eat them with.

Tsukada Nojo, bijin nabe

Simmer and wait and then eat.

Tsukada Nojo, spicy tori nanban

We had a side order of spicy tori nanban. That spicy mayo packed a bit of heat and was pretty good.

Tsukada Nojo, tori shumai

Also on the side, they had some large tori shumai which was quite nice too.

Tsukada Nojo, egg noodles

Egg noodles were provided for the remaining broth as starch for the hotpot.

Tsukada Nojo, noodles nabe

You know what? This turned out to be better than I had imagined. I don't mind coming back again if I can catch one of those hours when the queue isn't so crazy.

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