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90 Hougang Ave 10
Hougang Mall #02-23Singapore
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Telephone: (65) 6386-7836
Website: res.com.sg
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Ate dinner here twice for the past few weeks. Never managed to write a review yet though.
Firstly, this place is at the second flr of hougang mall which is a largely food oriented place with cafe cartel,etc. Some of the tables around for 2 persons are rather small, in the sense that it is small than usual width. Other than that, it's fairly spreadout, no bumping into other tables around.
Food wise, i ordered those typical jap hot pot with slices of beef for you to cook. It is quite gd. The soup is a tad salty though, maybe from my prolonged cooking which make it saturated. At this point of time, I must also comment on the service standard. Clumsy me accidentally tip the pot and quite a far amount of soup poured into the fire 'pit' below it. This left little soup in the pot to cook the many pieces of beet (at least 7 pieces) and a small flame. Offhand, I asked if they could help me top up the soup (not really in the mood for ownmade 'beef sushi') and was surprised that they do. They quite speedily brought my set in to change the fire and top up soup, allowing me to continue with my cooking of the beef. do not really know if other jap rest offered such services cause I'm not always clumsy.. haha..
My gf ordered some don set which was ok, typical stuff I must say.
The next time we went, we ate the sushi. The sushi are quite normal except for a few that includes cheese on it which isn't the typical stuff available. I think we ate a lobster cheese sushi or something. It is quite nice, though not typical jap sushi. sashimi is fresh too.
Service wise, it was quite ok - speedy and friendly faces.
Cost wise, each set is around 13 - 16 dollars. As a whole, the meal cost us around $28 which is quite acceptable.
For every $20, there is this chop on a card and you can accumulate chops to redeemn food voucher or food stuff.
Another downside is that there is no tie-ups with banks to offer any discount or such.
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Heartwarming :)
Last year I tried this branch, after being a fan of ichiban for its service, affordability and standard (not for variety though).
To my dismay, the service was rather sluggish, and they were not attentive at all. Food was not as good as the Plaza Sing one, soft shell crab was not crisp.
I gave it a second chance last week and I am really happy they took my feedback seriously.
I was greeted by a heartwarming and jovial crew, and they looked really busy and always on the look out to top up the tea, none was really slacking off.
Variety wise, it improved with its selection of sushi, but the others were like, any other.
Their waitresses proved to be very sweet and attentive, asking if we don't like anything in the meal, while making great recommendations although we already knew what we wanted...just testing her. She sounded like Ichiban's number one fan as if she tried everything.
As we always order the same old stuff, I was quite impressed that the standard is still there. (Although I wished that it will returned to its old 'atas' standard before it got franchised.)
Afterwhich she cleared everything that we finished, and upon eye contact she got the bill over.
I was an idiot for not asking for her name though.
Not saying Ichiban as best jap restaurant here, but what I meant was I kinda got a little bit more than what I was paying, it's more of a value/quality/standard for money over here. So I am gonna give it an excellent for overall.
I am really thankful of the redeeming and pleasant experience there.
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