Chihuly Lounge- Summer Weekend Afternoon Tea

Take a feast on all the names. Passion fruit mango éclair, casis violet écclair, mango éclair, caramel écair, mac-clair, cherry écair, cookies and cream écair, gula melaka écair, chocolate écair, green tea écair, mixed berries écair, hazelnt éclair, apple écair.

An Equador Rose

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Chihuly Lounge- Summer Weekend Afternoon Tea

Take a feast on all the names. Passion fruit mango éclair, casis violet écclair, mango éclair, caramel écair, mac-clair, cherry écair, cookies and cream écair, gula melaka écair, chocolate écair, green tea écair, mixed berries écair, hazelnt éclair, apple écair.

An Equador Rose

Say it with me. #iloveyouimissyousecretfriendshippleaseforgivemeremembermethankyoubemysweetheart. On a rose.

Chihuly Lounge- Summer Weekend Afternoon Tea

Take a feast on all the names. Passion fruit mango éclair, casis violet écclair, mango éclair, caramel écair, mac-clair, cherry écair, cookies and cream écair, gula melaka écair, chocolate écair, green tea écair, mixed berries écair, hazelnt éclair, apple écair.

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The Silver plate- *blue*@ Sakae Sushi

Wednesday, January 16   keyboard  


Cloudy

 Non-stochiastically, there would be an urge for starchy, sticky carbohydrates. Marinated. Flavoured strips and those unbridled moreish cuts that goes with them. Even if it was ambient temperature, tepid. 


The salads, mayonnaise, avocado. They seem to represent how sushi is being catered to here, the Out into Asia theory.


 Ebi kani maki, lobster salad combo, yasai tempura, edamame, tamago sushi. Rainbow has new addresses.


Blue Paradise Maki (SGD4.29)

January the highlight's seafood. Hence there was kani, seafood treasures, hotate jewels, and a paradise that is blue. Utopia like the Caribbean there would be volcanic craters aqua or coastal cliffs, hence a suitably association with the maki, volcano or shrimp or spider butterfly, and its beverage coasters, sea-sprayed blue.


A stain the maki'd left. Smokin' hot blue, and my brain's frozen. {From the aurora}. A flash fire across the makizushi, it is sweet, like a Blue Curacao. (Calpis' from Japan anyway, fizz's the culprit. Ramune too (lemon).) That could be how blue'd been, to tune drinks. Fish fritter, and not breaded ebi like what is garnished on the red plate, it is batted by the lucid taste of the kani, with the mollifying accompaniment of nori and rice.

P.S. So silver'd be a league below the red (plate, premium). Take on a new rainbow. White ($2.20) plate, blue ($3.00) plate, pink ($3.80) plate, green ($4.50) plate, grey ($5.20) plate, red ($6.00) plate, gold ($6.90) plate (Sushi Tei). To-do resolution list. Ditto, have I not been in a slumber?

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By the plate- @ Sakae Sushi

Tuesday, November 1   keyboard  


Sunny

Aftermath of our meal from Sakae Sushi, we managed to get one plate of every colour. Or rather, it is "working backwards". Not like japanese or english restaurants where diners eat whatever that is 'planned' for them on the menu, but by intuition, whatever comes and you take that on its colour plate until every colour has a copy.


Take what; comes may, the challenge. Retrieving it from the selection as long as it is a new colour of a plate. What which came to us was red, avocado unagi; yellow, kakiage (vegetable tempura); green, chuka kurage; turquiose, egg mayo; blue, tamago; indigo, salmon nigiri; pink,- the black ebikko inari(!); purple, california maki; and black, chawanmushi.


Colour Plate (SGD 2.99)

So halfway through (counting (the colours)) there is also black. Black ebikko (probably through the staining of squid ink) laid on a bed of rice in beancurd pouch. The ebikko was almost negligible; but extremely hardy and crunchy, so it should be prawn and not salmon or flying fish roe.


Strawberry Mousse Cake and Green Tea Chocolate Cake (SGD 5.99 ea)

Through the colour-(picking) there is also new dessert on the menu. Mousse cake, a non-spongey waxy texture more like set yoghurt. The green tea had an ashy flavour to it, and slushy ice-cream inside. Both cakes have a sponge cake base at the bottom of the dome, flourry and firm.

P.S. The rainbow of colours to designate the sushi in the belt. Red, premium plate, availability and exotic ingredients; green, wet gunkan sushi; turquoise, dry gunkan sushi; blue, nigiri sushi; pink, premium creative plate; black, special a la carte like chawanmushi and cha soba. There is also the yellow plate. It is the more exclusive premium plate.



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Pink Sushi

Tuesday, April 26   keyboard  


Sunny

One of the sushi you would definitely not choose first, in an open-air counter selling assorted sushi. Because there are just too many slimy orange, bright reds and greens to pick up in your basket, who would waste a chance at this odd looking thing?


Sakura Denbu (SGD 0.70 ea)

If you go and notice it, it is actually called sakura denbu, and is really pink in colour! Denbu is not a new kind of fish or prawn roe, but rather fish flakes or fish powder, coloured by the cherry blossoms for this case. Taking it out from the chilled section, it is a bed of hard, sweet sushi rice, layered with a blanket of sweet marinated powder; crunchy like powdered candy. A marinate rather similiar to the tasty, chilled jellyfish found on gunkan sushi.

P.S. That neon pink cast, the sakura gives the denbu a nice pink colour, originally a pale white or brown, to enliven sushi or rice dishes. The same idea as the bright red colouring found in chinese bbq pork meat, to enhance its appearance, and making it more appetizing to look at.

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Black Sugar Bean Curd

Tuesday, April 19   keyboard  


Sunny

Around every corner of orchard central, fat, stark faces are slapped on almost any conspicuous surface found.


Savage, and angry, they seem to partake in the spirit of combat fighting, the determined, or psyche-up look when surrounded by mental power (yuanqi/元气). Genki is the japanese way of saying yuanqi.


The faces/spirit finding its way all into genki sushi, on its dishes and right into its foods.


The sushi lands in front of you, like a Mr Bean or ufo. It stays there, without moving. Together being encircled in light, it is so odd that you guess it must have dropped down from the kitchen or injected or something.


If you are still stumped, remove your pickings first. This will reveal a bullet train. So this is the express vehicle sends for your sushi, at the blink of an eye, you have to watch carefully in order to catch it moving!


More sushi appearing from nowhere.


A bullet train for your sushi, a remote controlled conveyor belt, genki sushi pushes technology to the maximum with an i-pad! Yes, an i-pad for recruiting your favourite japanese rolls. Accounting for accuracy, promptness and verification for the orders made. Without exasperation from human errors, and you can order at your own leisurely pace.


Kokutouinari (SGD 2.30)

But what makes the restaurant enticing is still, its food. Genki sushi certainly makes no meek attempt in this aspect. Like what can possibly beat a bullet train or an i-pad? It has got to be this most fantastic thing, the black beancurd sushi. Not your normal inari sushi.


Finally, after dyeing the tobiko, fish flakes, and rice, someone also got to colour the distinctive element of a sushi, its tofu skin! Ok, a deep riveting brown, because of the black sugar inside.


It is purely the black sugar, and not because of massive frying which made it look so browned. Which makes this kokutouinari indeed outstanding, as with what it looks like. It is juicer, wetter and more flavourful than a traditional inari sushi, retaining the sweet breaths of malt or barley, with clear, plump sushi rice in between.

P.S. There might be a stain mark left on the plate, due to the black sugar! Black sugar is not brown sugar, but indeed a variety of sugar that looks almost black in cubes. As for a revolving conveyor belt or an express-train delivery system, we no objections as long as they can pass sushi to us.

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Rainbow Sushi

Tuesday, June 22   keyboard  


11 May, 2010

Vivocity: ex vivo, ever so big like The Lost World. Despite being the terminus of my line, I always feel like a fish swimming in the sea. One day, upon a dead end, I encountered a round amorphous amoeba floating above my head. Half
an infinity symbol, something like this: ○

Kimochi

The logo branching into teardrops, pronouncing: colored sushi rice, afraid to be the very first in singapore! With health benefits of color sushi. .

The other day I lost myself to come back again. ○

. . Purple= Vit B6, Mn
Orange= Fiber, biotin, thiamine
Red= Vit E, folic acid
Yellow= β-carotene, Vit A & C
Black= Se, Cu
Green= Ca, K

Mixed Colored Maki (SGD 6.00)

Sinking into the ovoid lozenges, they tasted just like lemon drops; colours
awashed in a tang of fruits. Flavours from the surprise centre(meat/vegetables) was distilled by the rice, making each grain/fibre more clarified, by their acidity. Icy pale but definite still, these coloured carbohydrates is 100% natural.

P.S. A full rainbow, there is no white in this sushi. (Optical effect-the one in white rice is actually a pale, pale green.) It is raw foodism bliss(juicing) to present fruits/vegetables in (white)rice.

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Green Ebiko

Saturday, June 19   keyboard  

29 April, 2010
Wasabiko (SGD 1.99)

Now and then we'd like to have a little indulgence, a stray from the usual. Like this one, when one is at Sakae Sushi, mentally prepared on buffet conveyor; ready to pick not the customary(usually the ones still left on the shelf). Such are the chances of picking gunkan, one of the best sushi can offer- easy on the carbohydrates short-grain rice, open-faced vessel leaking seafood and sashimi. Ebiko: the strongest complement to rice vinegar and nori. Wasabiko when you want a muted version; sweet flower fragrance from the roots of the horseradish plant, charming confectionery technology from the land of the rising sun.

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Black Sushi Lives

Wednesday, June 9   keyboard  


Jan, 2010


All brown-bean curd sushi. More accurately, it is called Inarizushi (stuffed sushi) poach belly beancurd hiding all the rice.


 (From a faraway corner in Ishi Mura)
All black=seaweed 'bean curd" sushi?? Nori Hello??


 Here's lookin' at you, babe. They are really not your average sushi, after seeing so many pairs of raw, black ebikko gleaming at you. Not for the faint-hearted. If you oversee that, the ocean salty of its skysongs awaits you. Nothing more, nothing less. Four words: Der-Leh-Cious wholesomeness.

P.S. The Black ebikko is actually squid ink infused ebikko(prawn eggs) NTBC Not To Be Confused the eggs are not black in the first place. And its prawn eggs, not prawn chicken eggs.




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