[CLOSED] On-Yasai (CHIJMES)

This is the premium one; 1person for $45++(?) with wagyu beef. There are other options which cost around $25++ or $35++. I've tried a few soup bases before, but I'll always rmb to order the soya bean soup 👌🏼 The taste is explosive. It used to have nice desserts for you, but now, they only give you a small size gelato :/ which is too frozen.

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Current Chinese New Year food trend. Steamboat!!! A5 sliced Wagyu with sweet Japanese broth.

Took a friend to On-Yasai at CHJIMES for a belated birthday lunch and instead of doing the sane thing and ordering lunch sets, we went all out and got the Premium A La Carte Buffet ($54.90++ per adult) instead 😁
For the price, we enjoyed free flow of a wide assortment of appetisers, meats, vegetables, mushrooms and side dishes cooked in two soups of our choice. After much deliberation, we decided on the Soya Milk and Secret Sukiyaki. The former was creamy and subtly fragrant while the latter had a sweetness that complemented beef especially well. Obviously, the highlight of this meal for me was the sheer variety of meats. It comprised of beef chuck eye roll, beef chuck roll, Wagyu brisket, Kurogegyu beef shoulder, pork belly, pork collar, chicken thigh meat and the special housemade chicken tsumire (a marinated chicken paste presented in bamboo tubes for customers to section off and drop bite-size portions into the soup). All proved to be of good to very good quality. Ditto the vegetables and mushrooms which by the way, covered quite a few kinds. The other items I especially enjoyed dunking in the soups were the tofu and cheese shabu shabu (this simply melted into an oozy creaminess in seconds! 😋)
For appetisers, I couldn't get enough of the refreshing cucumber topped with savoury cod roe and mayo, as well as the Italian-style diced tomato that had bits of feta cheese and a dollop of pesto sauce mixed in. I ended up ordering two rounds of them. Or was it three? 😜
At the end of our meal, we got to choose one dessert each. I was pleasantly surprised to see that On-Yasai offered more than the perfunctory slice of watermelon and single scoop of ice-cream. My friend and I were smiling with satisfaction as we tucked into a smooth pumpkin pudding that's gently sweet, and two scoops of matcha ice-cream drizzled with traditional Japanese brown sugar syrup and finished off with roasted soybean powder. Both equally lovely endings to a very satisfying lunch!

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