Tsukada Nojo has won over legions of fans with their Bijin Nabe ($25 each, minimum two people). The wholly popular hot pot features a stock that's painstakingly prepared by stewing Jidori chicken bones for over eight hours, which they present at your table as a soya beancurd like pudding to melt down. Each set comes with a platter of vegetables, skewered prawns and chicken pieces, plus a choice of noodles.
The menu now offers two additional choices of soup base — spicy chilli and curry. Burppler Dex Neo tried the spicy chilli, and describes it be a mildly spicy, mala-type base peppered with Szechuan peppercorns. It's good if you like the heat, but his advice is for purists to stick with the original collagen-rich chicken broth, which he says is a lot easier to slurp down.
Also new to the menu are the Bijin Shabu Shabu ($32 per person, with Iberico pork slices) and Beef Sukiyaki Collagen ($38 per person, with a special collagen sukiyaki base) options, which are great alternatives if you're not a big fan of the default poached chicken parts that the original set comes with. Consider ordering the Spicy Chicken Nanban ($9) to share. Expect four pieces of addictively tasty deep-fried chicken, slicked in spicy hot egg mayo.
Avg price: $30
Photo by Burppler Muriel A