Tom Ton at The Central

Working deprives you of good food because you only have an hour to lunch with limits your choice of places to go to. Secondly, my work place is at Dhoby ghaut which means that there is only expensive and less than average food. Since I’ve been eating bad food for five days of the week, I can’t help but indulge myself with better food over the weekend.

The last weekend was pretty busy for me (in terms of work) because there was a pitch going on. But I managed to squeeze in time for some eating.

For one, I was craving for Japanese food. I hardly had any ever since I got back from Japan. I have no one to blame but myself for this deprivation because I simply refuse to settle for something less than delicious especially when I’ve tried the (near)best.

But I’ve learnt that, for one, I can’t be so picky because I’m in Singapore, not Japan. I can’t expect the same freshness in the fish. And I can’t expect them to have the same quality in the smaller shops. On a Saturday evening, after our work, J and I went to Clarke Quay to try Tom Ton (they have an outlet called Tampopo at Liang court too). Tom ton is a Japanese restaurant that specializes in black pig. The black pig is also known as the Berkshire Pig; it is an American animal which the Japanese have started rearing on their own. The taste of the black pig is and more tender and delicious when you compared to normal pork.

My katsu meal

Salad with sour plum sauce

J ordered the curry katsu which came with shredded cabbage. The sauce that was sour plum sauce and I thought that it was a tad too thick to go with the salad. I think its best if they just stick to ponzu sauce (made from yuzu). I would definitely want to head back and try out their other dishes.


Macarons from Pierre Herme

After that, we took a walk at Robertson Quay and headed to Canele to buy their macarons once again. Cause I was craving for some macarons. Must be the picture that I have on my computer screen! Pierre Herme macarons! I wish, and hope that my dad will be able to buy some back when he goes to Paris. While the macarons from Canele are acceptable, it’s still a far cry from the ones that I’ve tried from Pierre Herme in Tokyo.The more noteworthy ones from canele is the chocolate, and rose flavour macaron. The others are really so-so.

For now, I shall just content myself by staring and drooling over my computer wallpaper or pray for a kind soul who can bring me macarons.