Nagoya Miso Hikomi Kishimen
Carbonara pizza
Hotate & Cheese Cream
Sukiyaki Nabe
Hotate Butter
Waraku- Japanese casual dining, as printed on their wet tissue. It came like a storm. A favourite dining place for the young people who have an affection for Japanese food. Pasta de Waraku, a fusion of the italian pasta and Japanese food. First launched in Singapore in 2000, more and more outlets sprung up these few years. Up to date, in Singapore alone, there are 6 outlets under waraku and 4 outlets under pasta de waraku. The 6th waraku and 4th pasta de waraku will make its launch this september @heeren. Just like their opponent, the local brand, sakae sushi, covered every shopping mall in Singapore and even went overseas. This waraku holdings definitely has the intention of becoming a mega leader in the japanese casual dining field with the goal of having a total of 70 outlets in Singapore and overseas. Nagoya miso hikomi kishimen. The kishimen is a flat and wide noodle. It's a bit like our hor fun. The nagoya miso seemed to be lighter as compared to the normal miso that was used. If you are a 'Japan Hour' fan, you would have watched the episode on nagoya miso. Nagoya miso differs from the those found in Tokyo and Osaka. The soup base didn't taste like the normal miso soup we usually have. Instead, it was more of like a bowl of kishimen in herbal soup. RQ had this and his comment was the tempura prawn was tasteless. So it's like what hokkiens always like to say "hoh kwah bo hoh jiak" (Nice to see, not nice to eat). RQ gave 3/5 for this. The carbonara pizza. Carbonara, the thick creamy sauce, is no longer used in spagetthi. What was presented was a pizza made using the carbonara sauce and with bacon strips. My makan companions felt it was like roti prata because it's not the usual pan pizza we have at pizza hut. The crust was thinner. I felt the bacon strips they used were too fat. I think they were the first to come up with this new thing called carbonara pizza. So I 'upz' the rating from 2.5/5 to 3/5.
Hotate & cheese cream. I think many ladies are fond of cheese cream and will find this dish nice. It was udon noodles in the cheese cream sauce. I felt it tasted like carbonara...do away with egg but addition of lemon sauce. YQ ordered it because of her inclination towards hotate. She gave it a 4/5. PF had the same serving and she gave it a 3.5/5 as I would. Too much of the cheese cream will make one grow sick of it. By the way, the pasta was served in extremely big bowl, it was comparable to a wash basin. It may looked exaggerating but I think there could have been a reason behind it. "To prevent accidental splash of the sauce onto our clothes?" Or it was simply just for decorative purposes?
Sukiyaki Nabe. The soup base was soy bean. It was pretty nice at the first slurp. The beef ain't those marbled beef. Pss....I saw doctor blogger had nice marbled beef sukiyaki for a lesser price at Megumi. HaHa. The soup was overly sweet and salty. It was a little turn off when the soup became thicker and gluey after being continuously on the boil. 3/5
Hotate Butter. The hotates (scallops) were placed on a mini hot plate, served with lemon and a slab of butter. The hotates were fried beforehand to give the smooth and starchy taste (probably coated with starch flour). Together with the melted butter and lemon juice, it was a perfect match. If the hot plate was made hotter, and the butter sizzled with the hotate, it will definitely taste better. 4/5
The total bill added up to about $94 for 5 pax.
Waraku
6 Raffles Boulevard Marina Square #01-213
Singapore 039594
Tel: 6883-1123
11:30am - 11pm (Last order 10:30pm)
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