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My first reaction when seeing the tempura bowl delivered to my table was how brownish everything was. The photo on the menu has more colour for some reason. Anyhoo, I ordered the special tendon because it has more seafood items such as anago, kisu fish and squid, on top of the standard prawn and vegetables. The set also comes with some yuzu-flavoured pickled radish, miso soup, and stir fry lady fingers. My favourites of all I’ve tried are the squid and prawn. The vegetables are alright though I must say the maitake is pretty interesting. The anago and kisu fish unfortunately was a tad under-seasoned. Which also brings me to my next observation of how uneven the tempura sauce is drizzled on the rice/tempura. The kisu fish and anago were hidden underneath and hence didn’t get any savoury sauce. The rice itself is surprisingly little in comparison to other tempura restaurants I’ve tried, which I’m not complaining about because I get full after devouring 2/3 of my tempura. The tempura batter is okay, nothing spectacular, and imo is still quite thick for my liking. Overall, a decent tempura rice bowl but wont say this is cheap.

I’m not usually piqued by shio ramen but I have come across several raving reviews of this particular stall for their shio ramen. One thing that immediately stood out for me was the bamboo shoots (menma). In other shops, menma is sliced in a uniform rectangular shape but here it’s more cylindrical/conical. And their taste is unusually sweet and earthy in a really good way. I would definitely add-on more menma next time. Now back to the soup- it’s definitely on the saltier side but it has subtle smoky flavour to it, perhaps from the tare. Pork slice is on a chunkier side but still retains its juice and tenderness. Also happy to report that their curly noodle is al-dente just nice. I haven’t come across such a comforting bowl of ramen for soo long. This reminds me of slurping a bowl of ramen in a random alley in Tokyo in the middle of the night. So simple yet flavourful.

Can’t resist ordering this when seeing kani miso on the menu. The salad is especially briny with the addition of ikura, but then the sliced lemon helps to give some subtle tangy hints. Addictive when paired with your choice of poison from the menu.

Splurging for fresh sashimi because it’s hard to get a good one at conveyor belt sushiya and even many restaurants in Singapore. My favourites are the yellowtail and tuna, but the rest are great as well. Thought the ika (squid) is really interesting as it comes rolled with shiso leaf within to elevate the flavour. Uni is on the sweeter side and has a nice creamy mouthfeel.

Ordered the Very Hot version this time round because it’s not spicy at all last time at medium level haha still so impressed with how everything gels together. From flavourful minced pork to the refreshing crunchy radish, the bowl of noodle is full of flavour and textures. I also add a few dashes of kelp vinegar to add more zeng cause I like some tangy kick in my dan dan noodle. Hard to find this elsewhere, so I’m grateful they have a solid bowl here!

Back here again after this place exploded with influencers’ reviews 😂 happy to find the comforting dashi-based soup still as tasty as ever. Noodle is QQ with nice bites and the charred charsiew has a nice balance of meat and fats. Le bf is happy with how delish the dashi stock is but couldnt stop himself from adding more sansho pepper to give the added numbs to the subtle yuzu hints in the soup.

Another new Japanese spot in town, serving popular Japanese dishes at reasonable prices. Ordered their chirashi don that comes with salmon, tuna, kanpachi, scallop, cuttlefish and ama ebi, topped with ikura, tamago and the usual wasabi + ginger. Seafood was fresh and really like the sweet ama ebi as well as kanpachi. It’s served with normal rice beneath (unless you top up for Japanese pearl rice or noodle) which is ladened with lots of furikake, to the extent that it covers up all the flavour of other ingredients 🤦🏻‍♀️ Also decided to get the premium set— chawanmushi, 3 pcs of salmon sashimi, miso soup and mango mochi. Decent sides but not too memorable imo. I will do it without any sets (and furikake) next time. Overall, the chirashi is reasonably priced with generous amount of fresh ingredients.

Have been missing this delicacy and glad that House of Chirashi’s rendition was solid. Came with grated ginger, the squid was thinly sliced to give more shiok bites. May be a tad pricey compared to their other items on the menu, but I highly enjoy it!

Rose into fame for their value-for-money chirashi bowls, House of Chirashi does offer good quality fresh seafood for the price tag. While many people are happy with how much seafood there is compared to the rice, I still prefer to have a more balanced ratio. Rice was a tad soft but can be easily overlooked considering all the fresh sweet seafood pampering your tastebuds.

Now, I can’t really vouch for how value for money it is because during my visit on a Thursday afternoon, 80% of the main ingredients of the chirashi don was out of stock. They kindly replaced the unavailable ingredients with more premium sashimi as seen in the picture.

My gripe was that I was only told about this when they served my food 30 mins upon ordering (they did tell us about the salmon belly being OOS and told me they would replace it with more scallops). If communicated properly, I would have changed my order just so I could give a more objective review of their food. Also, they forgot to put some ingredients like wasabi, ginger and tamago, and only served the tamago 5 mins before I finished my meal.

Seems like they need to iron out the management of on-site and delivery orders to better estimate the availability of their ingredients and also the consistency of every order.

I will return but probably till the hype dies down and they get adjusted to managing high volume of orders at one go.

Tried this for the second time and found the sliced sashimi had become thinner (?) Still pretty fresh though. My fave has to be the prawn which came with natural sweetness. Chawanmushi, karaage and miso soup are also part of this set meal. Very good deal you can get in the CBD area!

Returned here to try their premium well done set to cater those who dont eat raw food (like le bf). Pretty impressed with the variety of the ingredients considering the price tag. Quite like the fried oysters, but I still prefer the raw version that emphasises on the quality and natural flavour of the ingredients. Personally didn’t find this memorable, but still value for money!

Let’s just say I had a very different expectation when reading the menu. Tuna was minced instead of cubed, and I just don’t enjoy the spicy sauce— it’s peppery and spicy yet bland (I ended up pouring all the soy sauce). Salmon comes with faint mentaiko flavour. Rice was sprinkled with some furikake but it’s only adding flavour to a few spoonfuls of the rice. Overall, not my kind of ricebowl. Can easily find better alternative at cheaper price.