Dinner @ home

Home grilled mackerel and squido rice (take away from the Hokkaido Fair) for tonight. The rice stuffed squid tasted like I remembered it from last year. Which is much better than the tiny ones that were sold in the Umaimono Fair. This one has soft sticky grains while the former has rice that taste like they were undercooked. The squid is a little harder than usual, with a bite, however not rubbery. There is a slightly smoked flavour to the meat.

The mackerels are actually bought frozen and grilled at home. I find that the whole ones taste better than pre-cut slices actually, but this is pretty decent as well.

Romankan Yokohama, Takashimaya

This Japanese katsu shop is located at the basement of Takashimaya. The menu consist mostly of pork, chicken and prawn based katsu rice and wrapped sandwiches with the sets accompanied by pickles, rice, shredded lettuce and miso soup. There are servers dressed in French maid outfits. The food here is pretty similar to another that serves katsu and curry at the basement of Liang Court in Meidi Ya.

Chicken and Prawn Katsu set

Pork Katsu set minus rice

Juicy close up of the Pork Katsu

More hot and juicy meat

Hokkaido Fair, Takashimya

This year's Hokkaido Fair located at the basement of Takashimaya seemingly looked more lacklustre in comparison to the one last year even on a Saturday afternoon. Maybe it's just today. Apart from the ramen stand, the crowd was thin at most of the booths. In comparison, the Umaimono Fair looked like a better success. The fair started on the 26th Oct and ends on the 5th of November so if you wanna go check it out, don't wait too long. The following were a some random pics of what one might find.

Boiled squids stuffed with rice

A very busy ramen master at ceaseless work

And the small loot from the fair today are...

Fish cake with cheese...

...filled with delicious cream cheese. $3.60 a piece.

And 2 packs of squido rice to go!

Desserts at Menotti, Re-revisited

Talk about ad hoc. This is yet again, unplanned and the 3rd dessert stop at Menotti in 2 weeks. Starting from the bottom left at counterclockwise, we have the Canoli, Duomos, Baba', Tiramisu, Strudel and the Cassata Siciliana.

The Tent, Clark Quay

The Tent is a Mongolian themed all you can eat place located in the central area of Clark Quay. I said themed above because the people who work there aren't Mongolian and the food is definitely not Mongolian unless we're saying that they have celery and rasin salad and make use of green curry. The only telling Monglian-ism is that the staff are uniformed in some style(I don't know if that look is really Mongolian) and the food is all fried in a glass enclosure like they do in Kublai Khan.

How it works here is, each seat comes with a respectively numbered metal token. You'll have get your vegetables and meat which are placed in chilled bars and then you select your combinatin of over 40 different spice and condiments which will be stir fried with your vegetables and meat on a hot pan. There are some pre-designed recipes hanging over the condiment bar which one can use, but I think it's too much of a hassle and made mostly whatever caught my fancy. The selection of you food along with the token from your seat is passed to the cooks behind the glass enclosures. You then return to your seat and wait to be served once it is done. It turns out that most of the servings looked different and the same. Here's a look at some random shots of about half the servings for the night.

All in all, it felt like eating at a better and pricier Seoul Garden. The food is decent, but I don't think it's an experience that I will bother to repeat.

Dessert at Menotti, Revisited!

Well, since I happened to be around the corner after dinner at Szechuan Court, decided to dropping by for something. Actually did not plan to return again so soon after the previous visit, but heh, 50% off after 10 for desserts/pastries is a pretty neat offer. Here's what $13+ got.

"A trio of Mascarpone UFOs on the loose!"

This is the Canoli, a chilled crispy pastry roll filled with creamy ricotta cheese with citrus fruit bits. The whole thing is sprinkled with crushed pistachio nuts. It's not too bad actually.