CHARCOAL

Went to try out Charcoal at Station Kitchen, St. James Power Station. As I had called and booked a table for two several days ago, but when we entered Charcoal, my name was not in sight on their booking list. Nevertheless as we were early and it's yet dinner time, we managed to get a table.

The restaurant is high-class decorated and there are 2 different kind of tables, namely the normal table and the other as shown in the photograph above which require the customer(s) to take off their foot wear. The waitress came to give us the menu and gave a short introduction of how their system work. Upon looking at the menu, ala carte menu seems to be pricey and we ordered the Moriwasen set which is priced at $58.00! The Moriwasen set consist of more meat whereas the other sets had other variety like seafood, which is more pricey!

After we had ordered, a traditional mini-stove was brought to our table. The fire is controlled by opening and closing of the small window!

Moriwasen set consist of 3 different meat, mushroom, 2 veggies and a japanese rice in green tea! we need to BBQ the meat on the small wire mesh, but the fire is (indeed) strong thus the meat got over-cooked rather fast, it tends to stick to the wire mesh too! Most of the time, we are eating a bit 'chao ta' meat! The veggies and mushroom were too raw that the veggies and mushroom also ended up onto the wire mesh. Indeed, they do tasted better after being BBQ-ed!

We seems to be struggling in our dinner while the rest of the customer seems to enjoy their BBQ dinner. Business for the Charcoal also seems brisk! The waitress also took a long time (almost 10 minutes) to settle the bill!

this is a disappointing dinner especially the food. Despite both of us being small eaters, but we feel that we had yet eaten anything after the dinner! Can you imagine that we went for a second round in Brewerkz where I finish one Brewerkz Burger!!

more photographs of the dinner can be seen here