Wagyu don Portion size is alright. Food tastes good

mains! honestly this place is very meh, wont recommend! food is quite mediocre and staff was just on his laptop constantly! feels like microwaved food

$30 nett For Two Don Set Popped by Gyunami for lunch with my friend, and the standard of their Signature wagyu roast beef don is still as good as when I had it 2 years back! Portion size may look small but underneath the slices of tender wagyu roast beef, there’s a lot of rice. The highlight is definitely the thin slices of wagyu roast beef. It’s super tender, perfectly medium rare and goes very well with everything! Gotta appreciate the artful arrangement of the meat slices on top of the rice too 💯 The set comes with complimentary miso soup – taste was okay, nothing too extraordinary. There’s not much lunch crowd on weekdays so you don’t have to queue 😊

Vongole Aglio Olio I really wanted to try this pasta and I think it fared surprisingly well! The clams we had were fresh, while the pasta sauce was savoury yet light on the palate AND infused into the pasta, unlike the previous pasta place that I recently posted about oops.

Truffle Fries Ok pardon the ugly pic but this was the true champ of the meal actually as we didn’t expect the fries to be so crisp yet potato-ey (in the sense that you could still taste the nice starchy potato, and not just air in the fries ykwim?). The truffle taste was also present in every fry and though the cheese shavings on top look pretty scant, it was adequate for that whole mountain of fries 👌💯 defo a must get.

Crabmeat Pasta This was my friend’s fav and if you can’t already tell from the pic, it was reallyyyy creamy and filled with crabmeat, without being overly surfeiting or thiccc. The tomato base was also slightly tangy and served to whet my appetite even more👅

Crab Meat Tagliatelle ($24) Don’t usually go for crab pastas, but was impressed by this! Pasta was done al dente, and was well coated with the savoury-sweet tomato sauce. There was a relatively generous serving of crabmeat too, which had a nice bite to it. I enjoy rookery’s menu offerings, and it’s great that they offer 1-4-1 on burpple, eatigo and shopbackgo! Ate here rather often last year. However, I don’t think I would visit as often if not for the 1-4-1, as it can get pretty pricey!

Pork Chop 💵: $30 🤔: Meat wasn't the most tender, but is really well-marinated and tasty. Definitely worth the higher price tag it came with!

Open-faced sandwich with pulled pork and poached eggs This was named “Eggs Benedict with pulled pork” on the menu. But I think it should just be renamed as how I’ve titled this review. There’s no hollandaise to go with the ‘eggs benny’ and also, who pairs eggs benny with pulled pork?! (Ok yes there’s the option for smoked salmon but I just wanted pulled pork and so this was what I got) My colleague had the smoked salmon version but there was no hollandaise too! Whatever the name is, the runny yolk and pulled pork combi on pretty fluffy toast + some furikake and sesame seeds were pretty awesome to start your day with. Tho with pulled pork, it’d probably work better with a sunny side up 🍳 ‘Also comes with some avocado 🥑 mash across the toast for some healthy fats!