S is for......

......Squids. That were Seared and Sizzling on a Saturday.

S is for Sapporo, that was conveniently located beside the Succulent squids.

S is for Snack, which we made out of the squids and Sapporo on a Saturday.

S is for Satisfied.

Re-eating the charshu don from Baikohken

Probably my favorite thing on menu here. What I found out today was that it was better with a few healthy shakes of pepper and chilli powder that they provide.

Kebabs and kunefe

Valentine's Day

Sandaime Bunji, Millenia Walk

Sandaime Bunji's (9 Raffles Boulevard, #01-14/15 Millenia Walk, tel : +65 6333 1516) models on teishoku set and a la carte options of the mains dishes from said sets. The focus of the menu are their grilled gyutan and oden.

We hit up the small gyutan set which came with a variety of the items from the menu in small portions. That included the mugimeshi (barley rice), tororo, an unexpectedly clear and flavourful ox tail soup, flame grilled gyutan, salad, tofu and some very forgettable salmon sashimi.

The grilled tongue was fragrant and delicious but a little chewy.

I thought the oden was pretty good as well. The taste was both savoury and clear with what I thought to be comforting warm soup. Will want to order this again the next time.

Sandaime Bunji's mugimeshi can be had with their tororo which is flavoured with what I thought was shoyu. Tasted like shoyu.

Ginza Kuroson, Robertson Quay

I guess this place (30 Robertson Quay, #01-10/11 Riverside View, tel : +65 6737 5547) is trying to be quite a bit of things altogether which resulted in hits and misses in my opinion. To elaborate on that, I couldn't say that the food was bad. It was probably not as good as it could have been since these guys were trying to whip up sashimi, sushi, kushiage, kushiyaki, cooked food, French food and it was also a robatayaki to boot; all it seems in a open kitchen that seemed to value a sort of zen aesthetics over function.

What I thought was well done were the squid beaks that were actually knobby circumference of the mouth of squids sans the actual beaks. It was the predictably chewy and squidy flavors melded with a nice browning from the grill. Predictably tasty too. Would definitely order this again. Along with the comforting steamed potatoes with kanimiso.

umaki

sashimi platter

ika "beak"

tuna & leeks

steamed potatoes with butter and kanimiso

richly flavored oyster cream risotto (<--that's what they think!)

bitter chocolate brownie

an alcoholic yuzu drink