Hifumi (已結業)

Early dinner with Sam at Hifumi Japanese Restaurant, a new Japanese Restaurant located at extension of Plaza Singapura.I ordered Salmon Oyako Jyu (Salmon w/Roe on rice). Salmon is very fresh & the lotus root is really crunchy! Super love the Roe! They have a Self-service Salad Bar, and it's Free flow with any set meal purchased. Sadly to say, nothing much at the salad bar interest me cos I'm not a very veggie person & most of the items available are like eggplant, onions & stuffs... One of the few items that interest me is probably the ChawanMushi, which is really smooth & the Potato w/Roe! Sam's Salmon Itame (fried salmon slices with veggies) - I didn't try but Sam says it's nice…查看更多

Hifumi is the new Japanese restaurant at the Plaza Singapura extension. I finally get to chance to give it a try with my sisters after our barista workshop. Luckily the queue this time was not as bad as the previous attempt. We queued for almost 30 minutes to get a seat of 4 pax.Hifumi Japanese restaurant serves bento sets meals with all-you-can-eat appetizer bar. It is a new concept and first outlet here in Singapore. There are going to have more outlet coming soon this year.The appetizer bar is located at the centre of the restaurant. It serves varieties of appetizer which includes potato salad, tofu gratin, pumpkin salad, cheese fondue, rice cracker to name a few that i can remember. And free flow chawanmushi served. It is immediately clear off the moment it is served. Refillable drinks are an additional $1.99++ when you order set meal. You can have varieties range of drinks to choose from. I think this one of the value added choice in Hifumi. However, the appetizer bar choices are always running low. The moment the appetizer served, customers will quickly whip off it within minutes. So, we need to act fast before the dishes are gone!Alex ordered the monthly special (March) named Teriyaki Chicken Set @ S$13.99 per set.It served with miso soup, rice & all-you-can eat appetizer bar. The juicy chicken and original teriyaki sauce was served within 20 minutes. Taste wise is ok only.Sis ordered Chicken Itame Set @ S$14.99 which is recommended set in the menu. The set consists of stir-fried chicken and vegetables in black vinegar sauce. The chicken texture is slightly soggy for me. I don’t really enjoyed it. Overall taste is ok for me only.I ordered baked chicken set @S$11.99 consists of baked chicken with japanese pepper sauce. The presentation looks attractive and the portion wise is just nice for per person. The taste has chinese fusion taste cooking style.As for the service wise, i personally think there is room of improvement. We have hard time getting the staff’s attention to place order. We also saw some of the customers wave hands getting attention from the service crew as well. My rice bowl was cracked when it is served. I noticed it and called for the staff. The manager apologized and send his staff to make replacement for me. However, i was kinda shocked when a new bowl of rice was served in front of me without informing me. I think this is not a good attitude to serve the customer like this.Overall, dining experience was ok only but I will not queue for that long for the foods though although the set meal price is affordable.…查看更多

FoodWhy the long Queue? It really puzzles me alot. It's a total waste of time to queue for such food.Maybe because Plaza Singapura has just extended with lots of food chains and this shop is new, this is the only reason what I can think of. Besides this, the buying point is that they have unlimited free flow of appetizers at the "all-you-can-eat" appetizers bar. These are some examples. Chawanmushi standards seems average, no meat, no fish cake just a few small chunks of mushroom. What's worse is the pickles or salad... It tastes sour and overdued! Ordered a set of Pork Katsuni ($11.90) - fried pork cutlet with onion and egg. Decent meal and quite soggy, nothing to shout at but below average standard. Set comes with rice and miso soup.Had this chicken itame set at $14.99. This dish totally failed. There is no black vinegar taste and it's a far cry from what ootoya is offering. They offered fried green chilli in their vegetables and others. This comes with miso soup and rice as well.ServiceService is not good. It's hard to get service/attention from the workers.AmbienceAmbience is ok. It's a kind of open dinning and you get to see the inner malls and other food outlets as I'm seated beside the parapet. PriceIf food is good, the pricing they offered isnt an issue. Seriously no to their standard!Recommendation / TipsThere is no way I will make a return for my meal there unless the standard turns better!…查看更多

My friend recommended this place to me so i decided to try out this jap place at the new extension of plaza sing. The good thing about this restaurant is that as long as you order a set meal on the menu, you can enjoy the appetizer bar which contains chawanmushi, salad, seafood gyoza and few other stuff. Personally i find the chawanmushi the only nice dish among the appetizers. The main dish was also average.For a meal below $18, I think the food is not bad :)…查看更多

I have been hearing the rave about Hi Fu Mi restaurant at Plaza Sing Extension, what with their unlimited servings of appetisers! So, I brought my friends here one Saturday afternoon to see what it was all about.We arrived there around lunch time and surprisingly, there was no queue. Here's how it goes: You can order any of their set meals, which is priced from $12 to $20 dollars. Quite reasonable, right, for it also includes free flow drinks plus the all-you-can eat appetisers. However, you are only given 1.5 hours to finish your food for they say that weekend is a busy day for the resto.I had the monthly special, the chicken teriyaki with special sauce. Since we only had limited time to eat there, they were quite fast in serving our orders. But when my food came, the chicken pieces were smaller than in the photo! Haha. But the chicken was crispy outside and very tender and juicy inside. The miso soup was good—it warmed my hungry stomach!As for the appetiser bar… it was a big disappointment. Most of the items there were cold when they should be warm. For example, the Vegetables seemed like they came from the fridge, not heated, and served right away. The cheese fondue was also very saddening for it was soo watery, it was bordering on gross.After my first trip there, I didn’t dare go back. I just finished my meal and my friends and I left the restaurant. …查看更多

Went to Hifumi the 3rd time and the salad bar has more varieties now! The chawanmushi is really nice and there are now seafood dumplings and soba noodles. However, the main course doesn't taste that good. I ordered the baked chicken and curry vegetable set but both are a little disappointing because of too much salt added in. Price overall is reasonable since you have free access to the salad bar.…查看更多

Nested at quiet side of a corner in Plaza Singapura, Hifumi is an ideal place to dine and rest your legs after a day's work! FOODIt has a good marketing concept:The menu are all sold in sets, and all the sets come with all-you-can-eat appetizer bar. The items in the appetizer bar: The cheese fondue - very cheesy. Ideal for cheese-lovers.Chawanmushi :)Japanese dumpling soup - taste more like vegetarian dumplings As for my set meal, I ordered Chicken Oyakoni Set which cost only for $13.90. It's quite salty if eaten without the rice. Anyway, they have free-flow of drinks that cost only for $1.99 (You can help yourself to any warm/cold drinks you want at the drinks bar.SERVICEThe staffs are quite efficient in clearing the plates.AMBIENCENCEThe surroundings of the restaurant - quiet and peaceful during non-peak hour. The crowd start to kick in at about 6.30pm onwards. Good place to sit down and have some chat while waiting to go for the 2nd round of appetizer and drinks!…查看更多

HiFuMi Japanese Restaurant served up pretty nice Japanese food. The food at Hifumi reminded of Mrupupup's time in Japan. Hifumi's salad bar free flow of dishes served was uniquely Japanese like their potato salad, rice crackers, sweet desserts, bean curd and etc . Mrupupup ordered their salmon and teriyaki chicken sets which came with rice and soup. Mrupupup was more attracted to the free flow salad bar and was tucking into too many cups of chawamushi (steamed eggs in a cup). Very nice and per person about $15. Hifumi is located at Plaza Singapore #04-68 (at near Dhoby Ghaut station) - Orchard Road. Warning- Mrupupup ate too much food in Hifumi! Really felt like a 'value for money' buffet. Arhhhhh... the sweet potato sticks in the salad bar was just so nice!http://mrupupup.blogspot.sg/2013/02/hifumi-japanese-restaurant.html…查看更多

Hifumi Japanese Restaurant: This restaurant is located at the top floor of the new extension of Plaza Singapura, which makes it an unlikely impromptu lunch spot unless you are really very undecided on where to eat. There are just so many food choices on the other floors and all over Plaza Singapura! I was quite surprised to see the reviews and my friends telling me that Hifumi has long queues - when I there, it was almost only half-filled at lunch time (around 12 plus) - and there was only a short queue of one group of people when I left. It was a Sunday, by the way. What attracted me to try Hifumi: It really looks very modern, has a lot of choices, and the price is within my acceptable range (ie. $10 - 18). Above all, there was this eat-all-you-can appetizer bar with every set meal you buy!So colourful, so many veggies! But I'm more into meat... There's soups, rice crackers, fruits, yams, sweet potatoes ... many things you can choose from and it's only just appetizer! If you want to get only the appetizer, it's $10.99++ per person. My faovurite appetizer was the sweet potatoes and pomegranate jelly with fruits.Here are some other photos of the menu: I ordered the Chicken Oyakuni Set - $15.20 after GST/service charge. It was really quite salty for me, and it seems like there were many eggs used inside this entire dish. By the time I finished the appetizers and three-quarters of this, I was feeling quite full already from it. There were also pieces of chicken and onions inside this. The rice portion was also insufficient to complement this salty dish. The dish was less than satisfactory, in my opinion. Would try something else instead next time, if I come back. Refillable drinks are an additional $1.99++. There is also a limited eating time of 90mins, I guess that helps to ease the crowd problem! :) …查看更多

Went to eat at Hifumi with my family and relatives and queued for almost an hour before we got our seats. But the staff is really friendly and kept on apologizing for the long wait. The food here is really worth it since when you order a meal you can have access to the salad bar for free and it's unlimited! The salad bar though has little choice available (but I'm not complaining since the price is already ok). Chawanmushi is nice and free flow. You can top up $2 to get free flow of drinks also (coffee is really nice!). …查看更多

This was one of the first restaurants we have tried in the new wing of P.S. I remembered when it just opened there was always a long queue. We were looking for a lunch place on the eve of CNY and since all the chinese restaurant were closed for preparation of reunion dinners at night we tried out Hifumi.THey have a really good deal with all you can eat appetizer buffet for any set meal you ordered. I ordered the chicken Oyakoni set with miso soup and rice-- basically chicken sauteed in a hot plate with eggs and onion. Quite yummy but a tad salty. My bf ordered the fried chicken set or chicken Tatsuta set. Chicken was actually very good, especially when you squeeze the lemon on it. However, i find it quite expensive for the small portion. Also, if you eat it just like that with the rice is quite dry. However, because the set meals come with the all you can eat appetizer buffet, it was very worth it! THere were alot of interesting vegetable-based food such as a sort of kimchi cucumber, steamed baby corn and brocoli, sauteed eggplant in tomato sauce, a type of cheese fondue, chawanmushi, and this very tasty tofu tartine! I think i can be quite full by eating the appetizer buffet alone but since it cost $10.99 to only eat the appetizers it is better to order a set and then get the buffet free!Will definitely come back for the value-for-money-meals! …查看更多

A number of new Japanese eateries have opened at Plaza Singapura. Hifumi Japanese Restaurant is yet another Japanese concept restaurant that have found a new home on the fourth floor of Plaza Sing. Big eaters will be glad to know that this restaurant provides all-you-can-eat appetizer bar. The restaurant promises over 10 choices of appetizers available for every set meal purchased.The appetizer bar actually only occupies a small corner near the entrance, but well it's free flow APPETIZERS, not a free flow BUFFET and appetizers are meant to be enjoyed in small doses. Thankfully the appetizer dishes were refilled regularly when I visited. The drinks counter is behind, but they do have additional charges ($1.99) for free flow access to their drinks bar.They will provide a small black dish for you to place your appetizers on, ONLY ONE, that's why I resorted to cramming the appetizers on the plate. There were several Japanese style dishes available when I visited. I personally enjoyed the cold dishes offered like their chewy Jellyfish with plum dressing, Pumpkin and Walnut Salad, Potato salad. I also had my fill of cherry tomatoes, sweet potato fries and stewed eggplant. There was also a chawanmushi steamer at the appetizer bar, which serves miniscule bowl sized steamed egg. I lost count of the number of mini bowls I grabbed from the steamer. For the main course, I had their Tonkatsu Set ($13.99), which came with a serving of rice and miso soup. The breaded deep fried pork cutlet was rather ordinary, perhaps too dry for my liking. I will probably go for another of their main course next time. They had a number of other main courses to choose but is it strange that I actually enjoyed stuffing myself with their bite sized appetizers than the actual main course itself?For more photos, do visit http://mrfoodnotes.blogspot.sg/2013/01/hifumi-japanese-restaurant-plaza.html…查看更多

The FoodI ordered the Oroshi Chicken Katsu set with miso sauce. The Chicken cutlet is crispy on the outside and juicy and tender on the inside. Miso Sauce is not salty and have a tinge of sweetness and when I dipped the chicken in the sauce, taste superb!!The ServiceThe waitress was friendly and approachable and topped up our ice water when it run lowThe AmbienceWhat I enjoyed most was the surroundings and decor. Give me a cosy and comfortable feeling. Noise level also acceptableThe PriceOne good thing is they have "Eat all u can" appetizer just by ordering set meal which cost only $12.90!!. The drinks are also free flow at $1.90 also. OverallI will definitely come back again and highly recommended to try !! …查看更多

What attracted me was the everlasting queue outside Hifumi. Before one gets to have a taste of the food, he has to wait for an average of 30-45 minutes during peak hours. This is the second time I came to Hifumi and the appetizer bar is still the highlight of this Japanese restaurant. For any set meal that you order, you are entitled to have a free flow of appetizer from the bar (they don't serve a la carte FYI, all are set meals).Really love their jelly fish appetizer, it's crunchy and fresh and served chilled. Their potato salad is also worth raving about, my friend made a few trips to the bar just to get her potato craving satisfied. The chawanmushi is the fastest moving item on the bar - two minutes after a new batch was dished out, people just swarm over to snatch the little cups of steamed eggs. My two friends and I had two cups each. My set dinner - fresh salmon with lotus root marinated in vinegar. Healthy and light to the palate.Average spending per person is less than $20 which I think it's quite affordable for the quality AND quantity of food. :)…查看更多

I have walked past this place a couple of times and was always attracted by the long snaking queue and yesterday I decided to try out this new kid on the block with my family. I had read about mixed reviews of this place and I thought to myself that surely this place should be worth queuing since no matter what time I walked past, be it non peak or peak hours, there will be a queue. After queuing up for 40minutes and spotting a few empty uncleared tables while waiting, we were finally seated down. Evidently, the place is understaffed and more specifically with inexperienced staff. There was clearly only the manager (the one dressed in all black) doing all the work as the others, seemingly inexperienced post 'O' level students were idling- walking around nonchalantly and taking small little breaks in the kitchen. There was also only 1 elderly staff who was busy serving the food to the customers and this poor cashier who was running about- serving customers and also handling the payments. All in all, the whole place was in a mess therefore there was nothing much to be expected in terms of service.fOther than the poor service encountered, the food was fairly disappointing. I believe what attracted the patrons in the first place was the lure of the 'all-you-can-eat appetizers' and the free flow of drink at a mere $1.99 top-up. Frankly speaking, after calculating carefully, it is definitely not cheap at all. At an average price of $13.99++ for a main dish with soup and rice and the appetizers, it may seemed to be a good deal but the serving of the main dish is fairly small and the 'buffet' was hardly topped up at all (another sign of them understaffed). You can spot many patrons waiting eagerly for the chawanmushi only to see it being snapped up within a minute. I had waited for the refill of a few dishes ( marinated radish, toufu, cheese fondue veg) for 1 hour yet by the time I left, all were not refilled yet. In the month of dec, the in-house special dish was the hokkiado curry and my mum had ordered the dish with chicken. The portion of the chicken was actually quite small. For me, I had pork belly with ginger sauce. The sauce was too sweet for my liking and there was very little taste of the ginger. Overall the meat was very salty as well. My brother had katsudon and look at how small the portion was. The egg was also a tad too runny and therefore at a price of 12.99, everything is definitely overpriced since for the same price, I believe that I can get better food elsewhere, and even a cheaper price in food-courts.Evidently, people had queued for the novelty therefore for the poor service and standard of the food, I would strongly not recommended! …查看更多