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I wasn’t planning a big meal. I was just around Orchard, looking for somewhere casual with good food that wouldn’t require too much thought. That’s how I ended up at POCHA! Korean Street Dining at ION Orchard. Inspired by Pojangmacha, the casual Korean street stalls found in Korea’s Euljiro and Itaewon, POCHA! brings the feeling…
Quick answer: This Ginza Sushi Ichi Singapore review covers an Edomae sushi and omakase restaurant inside the Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel on Orchard Road. Lunch courses start at S$150 per person, while dinner omakase goes up to S$500. It suits diners who value traditional sushi, seasonal seafood, and a quiet counter experience. Ginza Sushi…
My grandfather used to say you could judge a Chinese restaurant by how it treats its tea. I thought about that the moment I sat down at Crystal Jade Golden Palace. Before I’d even opened the menu, a pot arrived, and it kept arriving all afternoon. Refilled without asking. Quiet, steady, the way it should…
There’s a certain kind of afternoon in the city. Grey sky, aircon too cold in the mall, and a stomach that doesn’t want anything clever. Just something warm. Something honest. On days like that, I go looking for fish soup. I’ve eaten my way around Funan and the City Hall stretch for the better part…
Visiting Tim Ho Wan PEAK wasn’t part of my plan, but the inviting aroma drew me in. I was simply passing through The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands when an irresistible aroma stopped me in my tracks, the sweet, smoky scent of perfectly roasted char siu. It was one of those smells that pulls you…
My first Korean meal was a mess. Not the food me. I was twenty, out with friends, and I let them order everything. We ended up with four rice dishes, a stew nobody touched, and a mountain of side dishes I assumed we had to pay extra for. I spent the whole meal quietly panicking…
I didn’t set out to become the guy who maps Korean food and Korean restaurants across every mall in Singapore. It just happened, one meal at a time. Over the past couple of years, I’ve eaten my way through most of what ION Orchard offers from the food court downstairs to the spots scattered across…
The first time I ordered sashimi, I did everything wrong. I was maybe nineteen, sitting at a counter in Singapore with a friend who knew what she was doing, and I panicked. I drowned a slice of salmon in soy sauce, dropped a fat clump of wasabi on top, and swallowed it before I could…
I didn’t set out to write this. It started as a habit. Somewhere between the shopping errands and the quiet afternoons, I began drifting up the escalators at Takashimaya, looking for a plate of raw fish and a corner to sit in. Over the past two years, I’ve eaten sashimi at nearly every Japanese restaurant…
I wasn’t planning to dine here. It was a regular weekday in Singapore, hot and sticky, and I was killing time along Orchard Road. Then I spotted the balcony on the fourth floor of Orchard Central: a few tables, a decent breeze, people eating what looked like very good bowls. I went up. That was…