Tag: japanese

  • It would be hell if the restaurants weren’t so good

    Naomi and I hadn’t spent enough time looking through what’s on offer at the Marina Bay Sands, so we were very excited to discover that ‘celebrity chefs’ had set up shop in the massive casino complex. There’s Mario Batali, Tetsuya Wakuda, Hide Yamamoto, and Singapore’s own drink-driving Justin Quek amongst several others. And we only…

  • Cyclops can now fight Godzirra!

    “Ultraman + Mt. Fuji = JAPAN” – Photo by emrank I am not arroud to make fun of Japanese-accented English, so sitting through two hours with an embassy official who was helping us fill up deceptively difficult forms was quite a task yesterday afternoon. But it’s almost all done. Naomi’s and my marriage has been…

  • Times are tough when your Ramen gets smaller

    After a really long day, Naomi, her mum and I decided on Ramen Santouka for dinner, and we were a little taken aback by the notices they put up, some of them about how your Ramen-Ricebowl-Egg set has been downgraded to a Small-Ramen-Salad set, and that you have to cough up an additional dollar to…

  • Understatement

    Loyal Reader Lincoln told us Wednesday that staff at Akashi reckon that their Chicken Karaage is “better than KFC”. That’s no way to describe your own chicken. Like I’ve heard somewhere else, even General Tso’s trumps Colonel Sanders’ just on rank. The Chicken Karaage alone is worth a visit to Akashi, and as their staff…

  • Best ramen in the world

    Traditional Japanese Curtains for you to konk heads with departing customer Naomi and I have been to this place, I dunno, four, five times already in the last two months, and considering we don’t go out very often, it probably means we like the food a lot. Plastic models of dishes to help you decide…