Hokkaido Sushi Restaurant

As I am planning of having something hot which I can feed little JJ a bit for lunch, I order a bowl of Yasmin Zosui ( vegetable porridge ) at $12++. It looks rather soupy and hot when served. The thoughtful staff also gives small bowls. It is a vegetable porridge filled with cabbage, carrot, mushrooms and egg. It is a very delicious meal, that even little JJ looks to be a state of food coma. He is knocking off, almost knocking his little head against the baby chair, but still wants to eat. Total costs is $14.15.

2013-05-18

SGD 14(Lunch)

For pictures and full review, pls visit:

http://madamechewy.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/hokkaido-sushi-restaurant/

Bought a groupon for Hokkaido Sushi Restaurant at M hotel. The original price of the food is exorbitant and I don’t think its worth it to dine here paying full price. By using the groupon the savings was about 50-60%.

Service was decent, the food was served very quickly. Everything must have been well prepared in advance. The food was fantastic! I enjoyed this meal every much, Hubby even told me he wishes to dine here again. It was very quiet at on a Saturday afternoon, only 2 other tables were occupied, I enjoyed the peaceful ambience.

Sashimi: I don’t eat Sashimi, Hubby felt it was fresh and delicious. Wafu salad: mixed salad with seaweed in vinegar sauce, balanced taste and refreshing. Home made pitan tofu: delicate dish, I felt healthy eating it. Grilled salmon with spicy cod roe sauce: flavoursome but a tad too salty.

Wagyu tenderloin beef with mixed mushroom: I found his too salty.Steamed custard egg with Hokkaido red salmon roe. Soba: soup broth is just right, not too salty.Finished the meal with some yucky green tea and mango ice cream.

Opps, nearly missed this out; Signature Hokkaido Mai: sushi roll with deep fried seafood wrapped in seaweed, top with flying fish roe. This was divine! I love the interesting crunchy texture of the sushi.

I have always been pretty skeptical about food vouchers be it from groupon / deal.com.sg / voucherlicious. Therefore when I was given a treat with these vouchers I would go to the restaurant with little expectations which may not be a bad thing after all.

Overall this so called kaiseki set has its hits and misses. Some of the dishes were not too bad, some were terrible.

The first course was the salad, well it was pretty normal, nothing to rave about, dressing was a little sourish and sweet. I liked the addition of black fungus in the salad.

One of my favourite dishes came in the second course - The century egg toufu. I love century egg, and the combination of century egg and cold toufu was refreshing, rich and creamy - simply perfect. The century egg york was mashed up into sort of a liquid form, some of the 'egg white' was used as decorative features, giving the crystal like visual appeal to the dish. This dished was topped with ebiko roe which gives the otherwise soft and mushy texture a wonderful bite. It was indeed pure pleasure eating this dish. Simple but almost perfect.

The third dish - Sashimi was not too bad. Not perfect but not too bad. The highlight of the sashimi was the fresh prawns, I say it again... fresh... very fresh indeed. Please suck the juices from the prawn head once you are done with the flesh. Whatever that came out of the head was addictive, I presume that is the prawn roe? or maybe the errmm sh**? Whatever it is, I don't realy care because I know I love it!

Next was chawamushi, I like the salmon roe in it, but overall the chawamushi was pretty ordinary. Nothing spectacular.

Okay now comes the disappointment, the wagyu beef. The voucher advertise the wagyu beef as the highlight, but unfortunately it is what causes this whole diniing experience to fall apart. The sauce for the beef overpowered the beef and it was way too sweet, how could they even serve this I wonder, don't the chefs taste their food at all? There is something very wrong about this dish. As for the beef, it was tasteless... I am very skeptical as to whether is this really wagyu beef, hmm maybe the lowest grade and frozen type.
If you dont eat beef, you could request for it to be switched to chicken, but the chicken was also unfortunately horrible! Worse than the beef, totally not worth the calories. And as we all know chicken meat is way much cheaper than beef so if you can please do not make the switch.

The maki was again normal and the udon, not fantastic, the crab meat in the udon was tasteless.

We ended our meal with a scoop of ice cream. Ice cream was horrible, it was ICY, with ice crystals in the ice-cream. Again... I wonder if the cooks actually taste their own creation. How could a restaurant serve ice-cream with literally ice crystals in it.

I guess I may not go back again.

2012-07-07

my friend and i went to this japanese restaurant to have some food. we had a few items.. one of them was the sashimi and bbq fish..

Due to the freshness, there were no funny fishy smell..
the sauce for the bbq fish was really good
overall, we really enjoyed their food very much. May consider going there for dinner some time :0

Bought 2 vouchers from deal.com, which served what they called the Special Hokkaido Signature Set. It consisted of Century Egg with Homemade Tofu ($12), Sashimi 5 pcs ($20), Teppan Salmon ($18), Fukahire Chawanmushi (Steamed Custard Egg with Shark Fin) ($25), Yakitori Don ($22), Miso Soup ($4) and Fruits ($2). This set claims to cost $121.

Overall, the meal was good and filling. Well I just expected the century egg tofu to be bigger. It was really a very small cube of tofu, sort of like 1 mouthful so the size was rather unexpected, although its taste was wonderful. The rest of the things were above average. I did like the Yakitori Don too. The rest were alright and if it's the usual price, I might stay away from this place.

if you love fish

especially grilled ones.. Japanese type of grilled. you should try this out

grill salmon and another type of fish which i can't remember the name.. but look at the photo and you will know =)

its fresh.. no foul smell... crispy yet not dry for the first type.. dip it with the sauce.. and press the lemon on the fish wow~!!

salmon wise same.. no foul smell.. mild taste and good~!

2011-11-16

Bought a good deal to enjoy a $232.85 worth of Teppanyaki with hubby. Our set consisted of:

1) Salad - fresh greens tossed in Jap sauce. Ok, pretty nice.

2) Sashimi - 3 cuts of salmon and 2 cuts of tuna, very fresh and thick slices too

3) Chawamushi with shark-fin - I must say this is the first time I have steamed eggs with shark-fin on top. I am not a fan of shark-fin and I thought that as topping was a little over-the-top. On it's own, the steamed eggs were good.

4) Salmon omelette - the sauce that the chef used to cook the salmon in the Aluminum foil...awesome. I almost asked for a spoon so I would not waste the sauce!! But I must maintain my atas composure mah...

5) Scallops & Tiger prawns tossed in mayo - the scallops and tigers were HUGE! The chef grilled the seafood first before coating it with mayo & this secret sauce = woohoo!!

6) Chicken & Beef - grilled chicken skin side first to get that crispyness. Then chef cubed it together with the beef steak and he glazed it with his secret sauce. Yummy.

7) Mushroom soup - I know... Funny dish to appear in Teppanyaki but I didn't want the Miso soup lah. Mushroom soup is decent.

8) Garlic rice - I always look forward to this dish and always hope chef will give me the bigger bowl!! The garlic rice turned out to be a rather big serving and I was stuffed at the end of it.

9) Vegetable - another one of my fav and chef didn't disappoint again with this dish.

10) Dessert - almost too full to move, still with a dessert to round off a wonderful meal! We chose Green Tea ice cream as it was in line with the Jap cuisine. Hubby and I agreed that their Macha is really really good, I can't explain it, it just doesn't taste cheap lor! One of the best I've tasted.

I don't think I'll return as it's really too expensive without the discount. But if I have the cash, then BRING IT ON!!

2011-07-30

The food is expensive for the serving amount but the quality was good. the waiting time was reasonable although it would be better if the food came faster. i ordered a soft shell handroll, sashimi platter, unagi and scallop sushi, and seafood fried rich. The only dish that i would say is most value for money is he seafood fried rich. It is the best fried rice i ever tasted apart from mine, the seafood taste was rich and well adorned with fish meat and other seafood. It costs $10+ and serving size is about a bowl of rice. the seafood platter was sort of a disappointment, costing $30++ for 2 slices of tuna, scallop, salmon and some other fish.

overall i would not come again unless they are having some great discounts. for a bargain hunter like me, i would sacrifice abit of quality for something much much more reasonable in price.

Went there for my birthday and was not disappointed. Sadly, there was little to no crowd at this place even though it was a Sunday lunch. Only one other group, even though they could have sat so much more.

Well, there's not much to say. To check out the quality of the food you can try looking at my pictures, which fail to do the place justice. The sashimi just melts in your mouth. The saba is so well grilled, the meat slips off the bone cleanly. Everything you order will just be done at the highest standards. Though there is little by way of innovation here, they have what you'll expect in a Japanese establishment, so you'll not be left wanting (save for ramen...).

Unfortunately, their staff are Chinese-speaking, not Japanese, so while they will never leave you wanting for water refills or such, expect a little trouble communicating with them. They are friendly and polite and accommodating though, so that puts them in the upper echelons of service standards here in Singapore.

I would come here even if it weren't a special day, even though they are a little pricey. Nice as the restaurant's decor was, the view outside was marred by ugly cranes and office buildings.

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2010-07-18

Celebration: Birthday

SGD 30