Saturday, August 20, 2022

Soba Kappo Reiwa (蕎麦割烹令和), Trengganu Street

Soba Kappo Reiwa (蕎麦割烹令和), Trengganu Street

Soba Kappo Reiwa (#01-12, 25 Trengganu Street, tel : +65 9355 1618) is by a Shinji Matsudaira and his wife Ayana Matsudaira that began their business with Reiwa Soba here - a hawker soba shop. This one is purportedly an izakaya-esque kappo soba joint. 

Soba Kappo Reiwa (蕎麦割烹令和), honey ume soda

Their homemade honey ume soda is made on order - couldn't get enough of a glass.

Soba Kappo Reiwa (蕎麦割烹令和), fried oysters fermented butter

Menu describes this as fried oyster with fermented butter. Oyster didn't taste fried but it was delicious in a buttery broth. Saved the broth for later.

Soba Kappo Reiwa (蕎麦割烹令和), wakasagi tempura

The tempura batter at Soba Kappo Reiwa is made with buckwheat flour. Texture is more dense compared regular tempura and I didn't detect much crunch. But here's some pretty tasty wakasagi tempura

Soba Kappo Reiwa (蕎麦割烹令和), kaisen tempura

We ordered a seafood plate which had prawns, garfish and anago. Our first time eating garfish and they tasted like...*Nick Menza drumroll*...... regular white fish. 

Soba Kappo Reiwa (蕎麦割烹令和), sudachi soba

Wanted to see if their sudachi soba was good. It wasn't as impressive as the bowl from Keria. While not a precise type comparison, it was also not as satisfying as the chilled lemon soba from Healthy Soba IKI

Soba Kappo Reiwa (蕎麦割烹令和), sudachi

It's not a bad bowl at all. Just didn't think I'd rank it above the other two.

Soba Kappo Reiwa (蕎麦割烹令和), sea bream kake soba

Was curious about their tai kake soba. The fish was thinner and lesser than I imagined and was half cooked by the time we ate them. They were also falling apart and looked like discarded cuts from sashimi. Soba was chopped up so a spoon worked as well as chopsticks. The texture felt right on the slurp but as we were chewing them they felt gummy. I had the impression that this was a soba rendition of local fish porridge.

Couldn't tell how the tai broth was different from regular ones but it became better after I poured in the oyster butter broth I saved earlier.  

Soba Kappo Reiwa (蕎麦割烹令和)

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