Friday, November 28, 2008
After another 2D1N in camp training (this has been the nth time I'm been called back to camp this year, super sianzzzz), wanted to have a nice dinner with TSO so after booking out, went home to unpack my stuff, had a quick shower and went to pick her up from work.
Actually wanted to bring for dinner at Marche cuz she has been craving for it for some time already but alas, eben the Suntec branch had closed down and since we were already starving, we din want to drive all the way to HMV for Village.
So anyways, while walking around B1, looking for some interesting ideas for dinner, we chance upon this not too looking teppanyaki restaurant (forgot the name but it's near Muthu's Curry) and decided to give it a try since the price seemed quite ok.
And mayb it's still early, the restaurant was kinda empty and the waiter by the door was dozing off while putting his arms on the those-thing-you-put-the-menu-on. Anyone knows what is it called??? (hahah menu stand sounds weird and rostum doesn't seem quite right)
Anyway, I din realised he was dozing and he din realise we were there until I tried to turn a page on the menu. He was visibly paisei but quickly recovered and promptly showed us to our seats. Heheh, that's service recovery for you =p
We ordered 2 set dinners and then sat back and relaxed while the chef prepared our dinner for us. For those of you who had tried the Sakae Sushi version, this is definitely better.
As you can see, there are other diners so we were a bit paisei while taking food pix so we did not take any pix of ourselves =(
The entree, asparagus, mushrooms, lady's finger, scallop and prawn. This is in our opinion, the nicest dish, but the others were good too. The Sakae version will never have this kinda presentaion.
Hey, you may say you dun care since food's meant to be eaten anyway but then, we paid GST and service charge at the end of day so I'd appreciate a little more effort lor, rather than cook and dump everything on a plate. I might as well go eat Zi Char then.
For soup, I had the corn soup (I prefer the creamy version from MOS Burger though) while TSO had
Scallop with spinach. Other restaurants would have served these 2 soup creamy but maybe cuz it's a Japanese restaurant, that's why that they dun make it creamy so as to retain the Asian-ness.
And their salad dressing is different from the usual dressings that we are used to as well.
For my potato salad, they used teriyaki sauce and seaweed instead of the usual egg mayo.
TSO's garden salad was dressed in a sweet purplish dressing instead of the usual thousand island. Taste good and a refreshing change from the norm.
The main course: ribeye steak for TSO
And cod fish for me. The ribeye was so so but I thought the cod fish was yummilicious
In case you are wondering how come there's 2 servings of fish, this is actually honey banana. It's a warm dessert cuz it's teppanyaki-ed. Apparently, the fruit garnishes are cut nia. This is another not-so-common-but-taste-good dish.
The caramel pudding is very de so-so only though. Should have tried the teppanyaki-ed pancake instead.
All in all, it was a very nice dinner and the bill, inclusive of taxes came up to about $89.
The ribeye set cost about $40 and the cod fish was $35. If you are game for the lobster set, it's between $55 and $65 depending whether you want Boston lobster or I-forgot-what's-the-other-lobster.
11:36 PM
The entree, asparagus, mushrooms, lady's finger, scallop and prawn. This is in our opinion, the nicest dish, but the others were good too. The Sakae version will never have this kinda presentaion.