Just had a sumptuous lunch with my fellow colleagues @ Ichiban Boshi @ Plaza Singapura.

Ordered the Salmon Ninniku Wazen Set ($20.90++). Consists of Salmon in garlic sauce, miso soup, chawanmushi, mini unagi rice bowl, mini octopus & orange. Found the sauce for the octopus a tad sweet; salmon slice seemed much smaller than advertised menu but tastes good; love the chawanmushi, miso soup & unagi rice bowl.

One of my colleagues had the Manpuku Gozen ($19.90++) - Cooked Salmon set with mini octopus, rice, miso soup, chawanmushi, orange, 2 baked scallops. When the food came, one glance, the salmon piece seemed bigger than the one from my set but guess mine was thicker while hers though bigger piece, was thinner.

Had gathering @ Ichiban Boshi (Plaza Singapura) Level 6 with my friend.

Both of us ordered the Ishiyaki Unagi rice - unagi with garlic fried rice - served in hot stone bowl. Had it previously & was quite nice. However, this round @ Plaza Singapura, found the fishy taste of the unagi a tad too strong; not sure if the unagi is turning bad or?

The garlic rice smells & tasted really fragrant. Plus, being served in a hot stone bowl helped keep the rice warmer for longer period of time.

Priced @ $12.90 (before GST & service charge).

Had a bowl of Ajisen spicy ramen for dinner. It was value for money @ $6.80 ($8 after GST & service charge).

Soup was milky-spicy & as I'm a spicy food lover, I chose this over the Aso Ramen.

Celebrated my sister's birthday @ this restarant as her favourite dish was the Peking Duck.

We ordered a few other dishes like: Wasabi Prawns, pork ribs with honey & Spinach Beancurd. Desserts we had deep-fried ice-cream (chocolate flavour only) & mango cream with pomelo (sourish).

The Peking duck (@$50) was our favourite. One duck serves about 20 pcs. The sauce was great! Wasabi prawns, the wasabi sauce was not too strong & saves you having to peel the shells.

Had ala carte buffet dinner with a big group of friends @ Tung Lok Seafood @ Orchard Central. Nice view. Must make reservations in advance.

Minimum 4 persons & adult @ $38.80++, children (below 10 years old) @ $28.80++.

Main categories (recommended): Japanese cold cuts - (salmon sashimi, crisp-fried shishamo), Soups - (braised shark's fin with fish maw), cold cuts & appetisers - (crispy fish skin with salted egg yolk, five spiced meat roll), Dian Xin - (fried carrot cake with sausage in spicy XO sauce), Delicacies (Drunken prawns, deep-fried marble goby, steamed red tilapia & sauteed chinese spinach with 3 kinds of eggs), rice & noodles, Desserts (ice-cream puffs, red bean cream w lotus seeds).

Certain items like the shark fins & chilli crabs are limited to 1 serving per pax. The rest are free-flow ie can order as many times as you want. Like the chilli crab gravy but not much meat in the crabs though. Group favourite was the crispy fish skin. We ordered at least 6 rounds of it.

Last order @9.45pm. Just find the price a bit steep.