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2022-06-27
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Brother’s bday dinner. Filled up all 8 seats at counter. (Hope we weren’t too noisy for the 3 diners seated in the stand-alone table next to the door.)Here’s what we had.SaladSteamed egg with mochi and uni.Prawn heads - dipped with salt.Prawn - dipped with saltPrawn wrapped in shiso leaf- dipped with salt Kisu (沙錐魚) dipped in soy sauce. Perhaps I was busy chatting, but my piece of fish was not crispy and felt a bit soggy.Sweetcorn- dipped with salt Sweet potato- dipped with saltSquid- sprayed wi
Here’s what we had.
Salad
Steamed egg with mochi and uni.
Prawn heads - dipped with salt.
Prawn - dipped with salt
Prawn wrapped in shiso leaf- dipped with salt
Kisu (沙錐魚) dipped in soy sauce. Perhaps I was busy chatting, but my piece of fish was not crispy and felt a bit soggy.
Sweetcorn- dipped with salt
Sweet potato- dipped with salt
Squid- sprayed with lemon juice. Squid was very tender and bro immediately requested seconds.
Prawn toast with shiso leaf
Uni wrapped in seaweed
Maitake Mushroom
Sakura shrimp fritter- outstandingly sweet. Everybody requested seconds.
Ginkgo
Abalone
Scallop
Eel topped with spring onion
Glutinous rice ball with red bean filling
To finish off: a choice of miso soup and Ten-Don (tempura fritter of assorted seafood and seaweed with rice) or Ten-cha
Dessert: crackers filled with green tea IceCream plus assorted fruit.
Chefs didn’t like to explain much, just pointed at the appropriate condiment with their chopsticks. Maybe they didn’t feel like interrupting our incessant flow of chatter.
Halfway through, Gutless, sitting next to me queried whether she would be provided with those grease paper to soak off the excess oil. I didn’t feel it was greasy at all, but in hindsight the batter was lighter and crisper when I was last there a year ago. (Looking back at the photos back then, ingredients were 90% identical.)
Slight incident of water dripping down the aircon vents (not on me), but chefs got on it smoothly asap by giving out a bottle of sake (second row, far right).
In summary: safe choice for quality tempura experience.
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