Deciding
where to go for excellent Japanese food in Singapore used to be a
daunting task. You can step into the Japanese Restaurants in 5 star
hotels or higher, you can expect to pay exorbitant price. You go to
normal shopping centre, you end up with some sushi franchise with a
very standard quality. Fortunately in the past few years, there has
been some Japanese restaurant popping up in Singapore providing
excellent quality food with reasonable price.
Please
note that Chubby Botak Koala referring to “reasonable price” not
cheap price.
Located
in Triple One Somerset, Fukuichi is slightly out of the way from the
major traffic on Orchard Road. Little Devil, I and a guest visited
Fukuichi on a Sunday and the Triple One Somerset is not very crowded.
There were ample parking space in the building. From our seating, we
actually have a glimpse of the Sushi Bar, which was well occupied
that day.
We
started our meal with Yasai Stick (($8) and Tatami Iwashi ($9). The
Yasai Stick is combination of raw vegetables with miso paste. The
vegetables were chilled, so it remain fresh and crunchy. The miso
paste is average, not the better ones. Meanwhile the Tatami Iwashi
(Baby Japanese Anchovy) is light and crispy. Good appetizer.
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| Yasai Stick |
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| Tatami Iwashi |
The
Sashimi Moriawase (Jyo - $78) next to appear. It is the premium
assorted cuts consist of swordfish, salmon belly, tuna, scallops,
yellow tail and sweet prawns. The cuts are smooth, fresh and good in
size.
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| Sashimi Moriawase (Jyo) |
Next we have the Sushi
Moriawase ($35) which consist of salmon,
scallop, sweet prawn, fish roe, unagi, tuna, swordfish, tamago and
mini roll of tuna; and Shake Aburi Maki ($22) The spread of the sushi selection is very good.
The rice taste just nice, not lumpy and well balance vinegar taste.
Shake Aburi Maki is a seared salmon roll. It seems that seared sushi
are in trend at the moment, and the seared salmon just melts in your
mouth. Foodgasm? Almost, but not there yet.
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| Sushi Moriawase (photo of both side) |
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| Shake Aburi Maki |
For the cook food
section, we proceed ordered Tako Karaage ($12), Niku Fagura Sauce
($35), Hiyashi Gyomen ($12) & Kaisen Zousui ($16). Tako Karaage
or deep fried octopus was juicy, tender with a slight springy
texture. It is not chewy and goes well lemon and mayonaise. Niku
Fagura Sauce is grilled beef cube with foie gras sauce. The beef cube
is tender, grilled to medium rare. It is juicy and tender, but the
creamy foie gras sauce is just amazing. Yum Yum, definite foodgasm!!
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| Tako Karaage |
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| Niku Fagura Sauce - Must TRY!!! |
Hiyashi Gyomen is a cold
fish noodle. A creative alternative to normal soba. I saw this in an
Iron Chef show, so I could not resist to try it out. It is very
springy and a bit chewy. The dipping sauce has some ginger in it to
offset the fishy smell in the noodle. Very unique, but not to my
liking. Kaisen Zousui is just the complete comfort food. It is a rice
with seafood broth. The rice are well covered with different cuts of
seafood. The clear broth is very robust. A very good way to end the
meal.
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| Hiyashi Gyomen |
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| Kaisen Zousui |
Unfortunately, it was not
the end of the meal for us, we decided to satisfy a little bit more
of our cravings. So come the Uni sushi ($20/pair), unagi (eel -
$10/pair), anago (sea eel - $12/pair) and toro aburi sushi (seared
tuna belly - $24/pair). Well LD has the perfect ending, with her uni.
The sea eel taste lighter then the normal eel, which was good here.
And the seared tuna belly just melts in your mouth. At this point of
time, we were basically stuffed and happy to be rolled out from the
restaurant.
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| Uni sushi, Anago, Toro aburi sushi, Unagi |
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| Unagi |
Service here is very
friendly and attentive. The service staff even told us to stop
ordering, as she was worried that we might ordered to much.
Compliment to Chef John
Phua for the excellent food and his friendliness. He even took time
to post for the photo below. Thanks Chef!!
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| Chef John Phua @ his Chef's Table |
Overall, we totally have
a memorable dining experience dining in Fukuichi. The food is
excellent in terms of freshness, quality and taste. Price is very
reasonable. You get what you paid for. Our final bill was $348.
Food
& Drink: 9/10
Value:
8.5/10
Service:
8.5/10
Ambiance:
8.5/10
Budget
per Person: $81 & Above
(Lunch menu starting from $16)
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