I have made a new discovery on last Sunday. A new venue for class lunch especially we are sick of eating in the canteen.
Nihon Mura. A Japanese restuarant "hidden" at the new Jurong West Recreation Centre. (The stadium which we passed by along 179 bus route to school). Nihon Mura is a sister restuarant of Suki Yaki and the one at Jurong West is the 3rd branch after the branches at Revenue House and Tampines Sports Complex.
Thinking that it's located at such a ulu place, we didnt expect to see a queue. By the time we reached there around 2, there's a long queue outside the restuarant and suddenly we remembered it's Fathers' Day! haha. Fortunately, the queue cleared very fast.
So, whats so special about this place?
View from the restuarant.
Firstly, there's no menu. And it operates in Marche-style. But no card though. U use ice-cream sticks.
The open kitchen. This is the Charcoal-grilled counter.
In the restaurant itself, there's a few counters: The drinks/ice-cream counter, Charcoal-grilled, Raman/Udon/Don, fried items and a very fast-moving conveyor belt (Note: table not beside conveyor belt.) To order your food, go to the respective counter and pick up the ice-cream sticks.
... so what do you do next with the ice-cream sticks collected? Placed them all in a cup on your table. The waitress/waiter will pick up all these ice-cream sticks from your cup and take your order from there. Cool rite? haha. Sorry. Momo is so very easily fascinated.
Besides the special way of ordering your food, you would be happy to know that each plate of sushi cost 99 cents only. If you like sushi and dont mind your sushi to have no QC at all, it's the place to have your sushi. Haha.. what i meant by no QC.. as the sushi (the rice part) is not made by the chef at all, its machine made. So you will realise that not the portion of rice can differ and the rice might fall apart.
Know whats the sushi you should whack most over there? The Salmon Sushi! Haha. Sometimes it's okie that they dont have QC. The salmon slice on the sushi is way thicker than the one i had at Sakae. hehe. And also "wider area" too.
Guess we almost lost count of the no. of plates of sushi we had. :) Other than the sushi, we have ordered other food. Sadly to say, only the sushi is cheap. Others are average in price or rather expensive. Their tiny weeny cup of Chawanmushi is a rip-off! Cost 3 bucks. *faints*
Yummy Baby Octopus. Very nice!
One of their Chef recommendation. Curry Chicken Katsu Don. Their katsu very the crispy!
Enoki Bacon. Golden needle mushroom wrapped with bacon. Charcoal-grilled. Damn nice. Idea for BBQ.
Yeah yeah... I know i know.. Donuts have made a comeback for so long. For about 6 months? It's kinda late to blog about donuts. Donuts have been the latest craze these days to draw long queues.. you can see aunties, kids, working adults, students at those queues, all willing to wait up to 3, 4 hours for their donuts.
The opening of Donut Factoryat Raffles City Basement (The Marketplace) first started the donut craze. Soon, more and more donuts shop chains opened from the town to the shopping centre in heartland. In the past before Dunkin' Donuts disappeared from Singapore (I remembered there was one Dunkin' Donuts shop at Far East Plaza long long long ago.) , the nearest places you could satisfy your donuts craving would be the bakeries. Of cos, less fanciful flavours and much denser.
Just last year, I have my long craving for Dunkin' Donuts satisfied in Bangkok. Thank goodness, no queue at all. :)
Dunkin Donuts from Bangkok.
Just few weeks back, I tried the Vinco donuts from Vivo. Thank goodness it wasnt the weekend and hence no long queue. (most impt reason cos' is Mama's treat..) I queued for about 30 mins for my first dozen of donuts bought right here in Singapore. Heh. I would say not bad. Soft and I love thier chocolate glazed donuts. ooh. How sinful..... As compared to Dunkin, vinco donuts were much softer. Softer donuts are less filling, so you can fill your stomach with more. By the way, for those who liked Dunkin Donuts, good news! It's back in Singapore. However and fortunately, there's no shop for you to go queue at. You can order online and they will deliver to delivery spots such as selected MRT stations.
Recently, a new donut shop opened at Bukit Panjang Plaza basement, known as "Missy Donuts". Of cos, since it's so near my house, no harm queueing to give it a try.
However, it was such a frustration queuing for the donuts and the slow moving queue and noisy aunties just made things worse. Firstly, i queued for almost an hour. Not that the queue was very long in the first place. Secondly, when it was finally my turn to order, all the chocolate-flavoured donuts were sold out! Damn.. Just because the customer in front of me bought 24 chocolate-flavoured donuts.. leaving me with those non-chocolate ones to try. And worse... the crew werent frying any donuts cos they were still waiting for the dough to rise. Since i insisted on waiting for the chocolate donuts, i stood aside and waited.
Then there was 2 aunties beside me who also wanted to buy chocolate donuts started making noise.... Freak! 2 of them were complaining that they wanted to hurry get it cos they needed to go to work v soon.. and blah blah blah... and kept pestering the staff to make allowance for them. The new staffs were rather stunned and lost...by the furious ranting by the 2 aunties. Sigh. Poor girls. Yeah. The 2 aunties just get on my nerve, f**king irritating. Finally when the fresh donuts were out, one of the auntie attempted to poke at the chocolate donuts and kept asking what flavour. Oh pls.. you are not buying fish at market leh!!
Opps. Sorry for digressing. Just hope that I wont turn out like those aunties when i got older. Phew.
So.. in the end, we bought our dozen donuts : Kaya White Chocolate ( "Identical twin" - spotted the same one at Donut Factory), chocolate ice glazed, strawberry candy, Almond lover, chocolate rainbow, pistacho chocolate, mocha-ole...
Yummy. Me and Sky just sinfully finished half a dozen of the donuts. Urps! hehe. Surprising, the Kaya white chocolate which doesnt seem very popular with the customers, actually tasted really good according to Sky. The chocolate ice glazed was good as well... but the crew didnt do a good job of glazing. The chocolate doesnt seem to "harden" on the donut and appear rather watery. The rest of the tasting shall be done by my brother, who wants to eat but forever too lazy to go queue.
Closed-up of the donuts. You cant go very wrong with chocolate flavoured donuts. Few weekends ago, Sky and I went shopping at Daiso and bought a pack of donut mix. Sigh. I thought we were such failures in cooking. The donut we made turned out to be rather hard. ahahaha.. it's so hard that my poor mum said that she had trouble biting and we can use these donuts to deal a blow on someone's head. haha..So Sky self-consoled himself on the failure by claiming that cos we fried the dough, thats why it became harder than usual donuts. What nonsense.
I shamelessly present to you....... momo's donuts.
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