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. In celebration of food and dining experiences . |
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Exploring and discovering new restaurants Dining and chilling out with my loved ones Baking and cooking over the weekends Sharing my love for food with others
Vanilla bean pods (one can never have enough) Valrhona Cocoa powder Valrhona chocolate Macarons from Laduree and Pierre Herme Madelines mold Pretty cake stands (I only have one and only one) YUZU from Japan! (They taste great in almost anything) A food tour to Italy and France Opportunity to study at Le Cordon Bleu |
Thursday, June 14, 2007 Japan Trip Part II: The best meals... Endo Sushi: We went to look for it on a Sunday when we realised that the Osaka Central Market was closed on Sunday. We asked the locals that we met in our limited knowledge of Japanese and they told us "Endo Sushi- Oii-shii". So we were determined to go back on another day to look for that place that C*Hubby H*ubby recommended. We were delighted to find it. Even on a tuesday morning, it was packed with well-dressed people in suits. The sushi rice was the best ever; it was warm, soft, nicely portioned and well-balanced with vineger. Even the miso soup that we ordered was fantastic. Didn't manage to take a photo of it but it was miso soup boiled with clams. Can you imagine the goodness and richness of the soup? *** Daiwa Sushi: After Endo Sushi, J and I were really looking forward to another good sushi meal of its equivalent. We headed to Tsukiji market in Tokyo with a purpose. To have sushi at Daiwa! We saw the queue at Daiwa at 1015am in the morning. That made us more determined to eat that so we joined in the queue. Daiwa had 2 small stalls; each seated only about 10 persons at the sushi counter where 3 chefs were hard at work, pressing the sushi rice and slicing the fresh fish. We had to sit separately 'cause there was no room for 4 persons to be seated together. The fish at Daiwa was really really very fresh. Fresher than any raw fish that I've eaten. You can tell of its freshness just by a look. The o-toro was so fatty that I was so ecstatic. The uni was nearly overflowing off the seaweed sheet and it tasted absolutely like.. Heaven. All the buzz around me, the cramped seats left J and I unfazed and we literally gobbled down every single piece of sushi so fast that the chef seemed amused and delighted with us. We ordered a second serving of the uni and we were sent back into pure bliss. I wonder where I can find such good sushi in Singapore. Even my favourite Inagiku seem to pale in comparison. Ah.. I want to stay in Japan for the good food that it offers! ***  The chef making Teppanyaki style  Thinly Sliced Garlic, mustard, kobe beef  Veges!!! I love! Our entire meal... Yuzu Sorbet. Deliciously refreshing.  The queue outside Daiwa told us that it's really really good. We waited out there for about 1/2 hour. Note that this picture was taken at 1015am!!! How early!  The o-toro that melts in your mouth. Hmmm... Uni!!! J and I ordered another piece after we finished our set. More sushi. The Osakan way of eating sushi. Using the brush to spread the soy sauce over the fish slabs.  Endo sushi serves their sushi by plates. 5 pieces of sushi per plate and you don't get to choose the types that you'll be getting but I'm not complaining. The otoro and uni once again. HAAA  The second plate- the sushi on the extreme right isn't a ball of rice. It's actually a flaky white fish that I don't even know its name.  the third plate of sushi- consisting of more toro and abalone.
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