In a broad stroke, kushikatsu isn't big here. Not like how sushi, yakitori or even teppanyaki are. Hence, Kushikatsu Tanaka (#01-01B Clarke Quay, 3A River Valley Road, tel : +65 6258 3789) intrigued me since we don't have so many specialist of fried stuff on sticks around.
Right off the bat, one should not be expecting standards equivalent to the defunct Han or even Panko. I enjoyed their morokyu though. Cucumbers were nicely chilled and it even came with ume.
The spring section of their menu had mango beer so I got one to start. Nice - it was refreshing and sweet. It even had tiny bits of the fruit in the beer.
DIY potato salad is okay. Aren't these the smart thing to do to offload the elbow grease needed to the customer? Still prefer the one from Hokkaido Izakaya because of the smoked egg.
Loved munching on those mame aji karaage. I thought these crispy/meaty baby horse mackerels were appropriately salted without being too excessive and still enough to keep you reaching out for more.
Our kushikatsu came in two batches. This one had asparagus, shiso pork and shitake stuffed with meat. For the former item, I thought Panko did better. As a whole, I personally preferred a lighter breading.
We had a bunch of other stuff like oysters (small-ish but tasty), scallops, quail eggs, cheese with bacon, cherry tomato with bacon and lotus root. Nothing particularly special about what they offered or were they outstanding. After a while, all the fried breading got to us. I can't do this as much as I can kushiyaki.
I needed another drink and ended up with their double matcha highball. Double because it came with a scoop of matcha ice cream which you were supposed to mix in before drinking. This was a lot more potent that the one from Hakata Yakitori Batten Yokatoh.
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