Mochi Mochi Cafe (NEWest)

Pop by for a late lunch at this quaint little cafe-bistro run by a Japanese family. We opt for their sukiyaki set that’s super value-for-money! ♥️

The sukiyaki is served in a shallow cast-iron pot filled with tons of thinly sliced Angus beef alongside with vegetables, mushrooms, tofu and konjac noodles.

So love their scrumptious and addictive soup base that’s bursting with sweet, salty and savoury flavour. ♥️♥️

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Happy food!

This set comes with vegetables, mushrooms, spring onions, tofu and konjac noodles simmered in sukiyaki broth with combination of sweet and salty taste.

The broth quickly warmed just enough to melt the fats and cooked the marbled Angus sliced beef without overcooking it.

The result is a super tender, buttery and savoury bite. Yums. 😋

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Stumble upon this charming, hidden gem run by a Japanese family — A cozy cafe serving simple home-style Japanese food that is relatively under the radar.

The simmered sliced beef with sweet onions, in soy sauce flavoured dashi stock accompanied by assortment of sides including potato salad, bamboo shoots with lotus roots, egg roll and shredded burdock are simply scrumptious! 😋

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This is another new Japanese Restaurant at Newest. The place is fast becoming like the old Hong Leong Gardens where a lot of Japanese restaurant and Izakayas were located.

They do not have a lot of different menus to offer. For now, there are just 6 different bentos to choose from but owner says the idea is to offer bentos for lunch and run as Izakaya in the evenings.

Ordered their Grilled Saba Fish set. This is the largest piece of mackerel fish I have ever been served for a $12 set. The fish tasted fresh and smacks of fish oil. And because of the size, the skin is gelatinous and chewy. Nice.

But everything else is a fail. The menu supposedly has 6 bentos, but Unagi Bento was not on the menu. For set meals, one would expect a chawanmushi or at least a bowl of miso soup. None was coming. And they can only serve two bentos at a time, so if there is three of you or more, two persons get to eat first and two will have to wait. And Ocha is not free nor refillable. Or at least when I finished my lukewarm ocha, there was no offer for refill.

The owner is a Japanese who helms the kitchen. One man show. They need to get their act together and decide what they really want to do and review their menu. And their plating. And their kitchen help.

Not coming back anytime soon….which is a shame cause I do like their Saba fish.