More from Itacho

More from Itacho

Crab meat Chawanmushi:

Superb sweetness...

                                     

Tamago: Brings me back to Tsukiji where we bought a whole box of tamago back home..This is of course not as good as that found in Tsukiji, but its rather close in terms of taste. A little harder though.

The roe just burst in your mouth man!!!! Very thick salmon too. Very nice.

The mini abalone Warship: Very QQ abalone. Is not a must try..haha.

But the one beside the Abalone is very nice. It is the wasabi squid warship. Very QQ and full of freshness...

This is the surf clam sashimi. It is very soft, not the crunchy or Q type. Sweet though. Can try if you like to, but if you are expecting the cruchy and Q type like squid or sea cucumber, then don't try. =) Save your money and tummy for other things.

UPDATES on Oriole

More from Oriole....

Chef's special:
Kurobuta steak served with Mash potato at the bottom. Not sure if the meat is supposed to taste a little bit raw, like medium? The attractive part is the mash, not really the steak... Ok only. They stopped serving this dish. Maybe it will come back again? I don't know..
$28

Quesadillas; chicken, spicy tomato salsa, onion, mozzarella
$14
Very juicy dish with a generous portion of mozzarella cheese to make it more so nice!

Banger and Mash:
The Mash is very light, the sauce is a little sourish (seems to have a tinge of Assam and Sour cream taste).
The banger sausages are nice. First bite is just so so, but the taste will ooze with more munches. =)
$15

Fish Chowder: The soup of the day! This is the best soup of the day i have ever tasted. The fish is not 'fishy' and the soup is full of the seafood sweetness. Cannot describe...Cool!!!
$6.50

This is from the Sunday Brunch menu:
Can't remember the name of the dish.
It is 'Butter milk Hotcake'. Don't think you would ever want to go back to MacDonald if you have tasted this hotcakes before. They are crispy on the outside, soft on the inside.. =)
$9

This is brownie: Comes with a scope of Vanilla ice-cream. Best brownie we have ever tasted. Should give it a try. Not those hard and chewy type that I have tasted before. This is quite soft and fluffy and made very flavourful with the chocolate and nuts in the brownie.
$5.50

Honey crumble affogato: vanilla ice-cream, espresso, honeycomb crunch

This is an amazing dessert. The shot of expresso, chocolate chunks and chunks of honeycomb crunch mix so well with the vanilla ice-cream. One can't stop eating this..haha

$7.5

Borders Bistro @ Borders

Bistro Salad (Egg, honey baked ham, balsamic sauce, olive, green veg, etc): $12

Sateed Mushrooms: $7

This is not worth the price. The mushroom is small-portion and the sliced mushroom is too thin. Should have thicker cut to have better bite-texture.

Vongole Al Vino: $14.50

The clams are very small and look very minced. Well, the aglio Olio is not too oily compared to other places, but it is a little bit too salty. There is another aglio olio with prawns. So maybe you want to try out that one, which is very highly recommend by one of my friends. She said its the best aglio olio.. Go and try it and can tell me what you think? =)

Overall Verdict: The aircon-tables are not very good. Alot of Flies. Urghh..I told the older waiter there, but he seems to ignore what I have said and just clear the plates and walked away. Shitty feeling..

Well, most probably not come back again. I can better spent this amount of money somewhere!! =)

ITACHO @ ION

This is the best sushi place I have ever been to. I am not referring to the service. I am referring to the food items!! Before I go into describe how good the food are, I am going to complain about their service. They are not attentive and they are not sure about their own item. I guess this is bad enough in terms of bad service.

Luckily their food is really good, else they are not going to survive!

 

This is the tips on how to eat sushi. I never notice that we should not dip the rice into the soya soy sauce. We should only dip fish with the sauce.

This is the sweet prawn with urchin sushi. Well, I can't eat prawn. But my friend love this!! This type of seaweed wrapped sushi is known as 'Warship' sushi.

There are 2 types of squid. They have grilled ones and they have boiled ones (come with special sauce) The above is the boiled one. This dish is so so only. Can don't order, save the $$ for more sushi. =)

This is the scallop sashimi. Well, this is one of the best among places like Ichiban. It is still not the biggest I have ever eaten. However, it is very very fresh and sweet!

This is the Miso-Crab meat warship sushi. I can really taste the 'sea'. The miso paste really complement the crab meat, bringing out the sweetness of the crab meat.

The crab meat sushi is good, the Ika sushi is good, all are good!! Not much to talk about cos they are considered the more common type of sushi. Lets look at the one on the top left hand corner of the picture above. This is the scallop topped with goose liver!!! Well, ultimately tasty....

This is the spicy tuna inari sushi.. The inari is think, and very Q. Not the same as the normal inari sushi found at the Ichiban. Must try the inari sushi here if you like it! =)

This is very cute. But you can't have enough of it man!! Its like so small portion for $4.90. But it is fresh and tasty!! I love this!

Our favourite Mekajiki (Swordfish) sashimi. NIce, very nice. But not thick enough. Haha..

This slightly grilled salmon sushi with green veg is ok, not must try.

This is the Chawanmushi. There are a few flavour. The 'soup' is really really sweet and very flavourful. You will feel yourself swimming in the sea when you eat this.

MUST Try!!

Overall verdict: This is a must try place if you love sushi, if you don't like sushi in the first place, you may want to change your mind?haha.. The price here is definitely not cheap. The food you saw above cost us $69.90. I think i did not miss out any item. All those we ordered should be shown above.

But because the food is so so so nice. We will still be back once in a while to indulge! Sushi elsewhere will seems so normal and bland after you have been to ITACHO..

Fruit * Paradise (Orchard Central Branch)

We were very attracted to this Cafe restaurant by their beautiful fruit tarts. They have quite alot of flavours; Strawberry Chocolate, Tropical Fruit, Mango, Mixed Berries Chocolate etc etc etc....

Price per slice is about $7.80.

There proper meal choices are very very limited. They only have curry. They have Vege Curry, Mushroom curry, Pork and Eggplan Curry and Golden black curry rice. Very limited...

Cheapest set is $10.80 and the most expensive is $14.80.

Greens that come with the Set: Nice Sauce (Wafu type)

Vegetable Curry Rice:

We were very disappointed with the portion. Really pathetic. If you don't mind paying $10.80 for a portion like this (see carefully at the ingredients), you can go all out to try. The curry is actually very nice (not the typical Japanese curry, this one is more 'tomato'- flavoured) and is SPICY! but bearable. =)

Mushroom Curry Rice:

Curry should taste the same for all the various types of curry set. Only the ingredient is different.

This is the Strawberry Chocolate Tart:

Portion is rather small. Its under my expectation.  Alot of fruit bits, not bad.

We ordered a Tea Set consisting of a tart and a choice of blended Tea. We ordered Shangria:

Tea Set cost $9.80

To summarise, the food portion looks not worth it. The pictures I have taken look deceiving, they looks like "Wow, alot of ingredients". But actually it is not. Anyway, the taste is good. I am not sure if its this branch? We will give it a try again at the Vivo Branch! =)

House of Ken Noodle (@ Cuppage area)

This place is rather secluded at the corner of the building (which i forgot the name). However, It can be recognised easily with the very authentic japanese style.

I love the Cold noodle here. Its cold enough and the noodle is very very QQ. This is the Q-est Ramen i have ever tasted for Cold Noodle. The sesame sauce is not too overpowering but you can really taste the sesame. Mixed with the yellow Wasabi, Wo Wo yeah yeah...Nice.. I also like the bamboo shoot very much..*slurp*

Cold Noodle:$ 12 or $14 (can't remember)

On Another occasion:

Char Siew Rice: $ 4

The Char Siew Rice is really cool! The sauce is good, not too salty, not too sweet. You must try it on your own. But this is a hot item!! If you go too late, it will be sold out.. I have missed it a few times already!

GyoZa: $5 or $6 (can't remember)

The Gyoza here is one of the best I have tasted so far. Skin is pan-fried till very crispy. The meat within is also nice. The 'chive/garlic' taste is not too overpowering (if you know what type of taste I am referring to).

Hot Soupy Ramen: $12-14 (Can't remember)

There are various types of ramen, they also have Kimuchi Ramen. For those spicy soup lover, haha..you can try. But I like it alittle more sour, so I will add in my own dosage of vinegar into my noodle. =)

The soup is thick, oily (but its a norm for most Japanese ramen, this one considered ok compared to the Ma****ma and etc).....

The Egg is just ok, not those Oozy type.. =)

Oriole (Beside 313) #01-01, Pan Pacific Serviced Apt

I am all excited about this place when my friend told me that the coffee/food/drinks/desserts here are 'to-die-for'. Here we are at this cafe restaurant bar, whatever you can call it.

While waiting for my friends to arrive, which took them about 30minutes, I really can't stand the temptations when the waitresses walked pass me with all the food and everything that smell so good.

So I ordered a cup of Mint Chocolate, which i am so hooked with eversince i had 1 at Coffee bean. By the way, Coffee bean does not have any more Mint Chocolate *SAD*...

This one did not fail me. It gives me hope..haha..I have somewhere to go when I want good Mint Cho drink!!! Whohoooo....I can't help but finish this drink within like 5 minutes?? Sip after sip, which i can't bring myself to stop. ..

My friends all came.. We started to order food and more drinks. This is Ice mocha. Well, I am not a coffee person, but the coffee here in general is very smooth. Not yucky and bitter and hard to drink, I guess only non coffee drinker will understand what i mean.

I ordered this Beef cheek pasta. I never knew that Beef cheek is so so so tender and soft. Nice sauce too! Not too expensive, $15

This sandwich, named as oriole burger, is also a WoW...The angus beef is like layered so thickly that they are thicker than the bread!! The cheese layer is also very thick and rich. Sauce is like cameralized onion kind of sauce. Overall very nice. Beef a little too much though, haha..Think because of the big amount of 100% angus beef, this dish cost $24. =)

We also ordered Spicy Calamari, oh that one is ok only. They are the beer battered type, the flour taste is too overpowering for me, so i did not really enjoy the dish. $13 bucks.

This drink is Pineapple Caipirinha, very sour, good for digestion. haha..it cost $15, rather ok for a quality cocktail.

GREAT GREAT food and drinks. Will definitely return for more!!!

Saizeriya @ Liang Court

Saizeriya @ Liang Court, #02

Finally I have time to do some updates here..

First of all, lets have a cheap deal at restaurant-class food.. Well, the food is not Fatas-Fantas Fantastic..But it is definitely worth the price and the value sure surpass the cost you pay. =)

Seafood Chowder: $2.98 (something like that, not more than $3)
Thick but not too overpowering..The small bits of ingredients are visible and tangible..haha..

Mushroom & Bacon Risotto: $5.98 (something like that, less than $6)
Oh, this dish may be too 'soupy' for some, as you can observe from the photo. Taste good though. =)







Hamburg Steak: $7.98 (something like that, less than $8)
The hamburg is nice, if you like the Hamburg of Mr Curry (under the Waraku group of restaurants), then this will not disappoint you. The corn is very sweet and juicy. Nice..


Escagot: $5.98 (something like this..haa..really can't recall the price)
Oh this taste better than the Jack's Place one, which we find too salty. This is just nice. =) For this price, come on la!! The taste is good enough. =)

Ice-cream (3 layers-ice cream) ($5plus, can't remember)

The top-most layer taste like the sultana cake, with the dried fruit bits. Not bad at all.. It is imported from Italy.. The name of this ice-cream starts with a 'C'..

Will definitely go back again..Because the food is cheap and good.. =)

Total cost for this meal is $30+.. What do you think? =)