Hakata Yakitori Batten Yokatoh, Tanjong Pagar Road

This kushiyaki place (84/86 Tanjong Pagar Road, tel : +65 6970 7810) looked to be newish.

They've a bunch of stuff which were recommended as their specialties. The huge assed lettuce and pork roll looked interesting.

Cabbage with ponzu comes bottomless. We were asked if we wanted to top up whenever they were running low.

We were intrigued by what they menu described as brewed cod stomach with cream cheese. The orange paste in there tasted like gochujang. Minus the heat. I assumed the crunchy stuff in there was what they called cod stomach. I wasn't sure if it was but the dish was pretty tasty.

We had grilled pork belly. Pretty competent.

Reba was not bad as well. The livers were mostly tender and not overcooked.

This was their tomato basil roll. Cherry tomato and basil wrapped in pork. Tasted like how it sounded.

Chicken hearts were also not bad.

Couldn't taste much of the shochu from their green tea chuhai.

Not so impressed by their hamu katsu. The texture of the ham was more akin to luncheon meat and there wasn't much flavour going on for ham. It did look impressively thick but that was where impressive ended.

Quail eggs. Don't expect Otowa standards here for these.

So here we get to those huge assed lettuce and pork rolls we were introduced to earlier. They came in three options. Shio, cheese or a special sauce of theirs which looked like the condiments for takoyaki. These were obviously shio - so that we could taste the pork and cabbage. I liked it. Lots of crunch from the lettuce under the nicely browned pork which was well salted.

Tebasaki was okay. Not particularly outstanding in any way.

I suppose these guys were just okay. There're a bunch of kushiyaki/izakaya options around that generally do better which I won't bother to list here. I didn't think there was anything special about their food beyond the large lettuce and pork roll that would entice me to come back.