Tonkichi @ Orchard Central

This was dinner at Tonkichi Orchard Central. It was suppose to be a quick and light bite to save space in our stomach for chocolates at Jewels. But we were tempted and ate more than we should.

I had the Cold Ramen $12.90. I seem to be ordering Cold Ramen from most Japanese restaurants! Photographs in the menu of julienne vegetables attracts me! I had to order them!

It was quite nice. It was also cold enough. The (only) slice of pork had a delightful butter fragrance!




The cold ramen should be able to fill my stomach but I got tempted by the Japanese stewed pork. I also ordered the Buta Kakuni. $8.50.


The meat was really soft, the 'melt in your mouth' kind. It will be your kind of food if you like salty stewed food. I ate the 'soft melt in your mouth' fats from only one piece of the pork.  I scrapped off the fats from the other pieces. (I know some of you are accusing me of wasting good food, but I need to control my fat intake.)




Momo also chose the 'healthier choice' for her dinner. 

I wonder if  we are being subliminally brain washed by Health Promotion Board's message to choose the 'healthier choice'? Have they been advertising too much?

She had the Ton Shabu Set $21.50.
Thinly sliced pork slices on a bed of crunchy pickled cucumbers. The pork was to be dipped into the tonkatsu sauce. It's the sauce that made the whole dish yummy!




The set came with this bowl of delightful sticky Japanese rice.





Just like Sushi Tei, the Japanese tea served here is FOC.

They do serve the latest Pokka drinks though.  That's because Tonkichi is owned by Pokka.

Have you tried their latest sparkling fruit drinks? Their apple sparking drink came out some time ago, and I liked it. They have recently introduced 3 new flavours. There is the Lemon, Grape and another flavour which I can't recall.  The Lemon is sour, which is quite like. But their Grape taste really horrible to me.


Tonkichi Orchard Central
181 Orchard road
#07-06
Orchard Central
Singapore 238896

Tel: 6238 7976

Tonkichi @ Shaw House / Isetan Scotts

Met with "Can Do" and "Gorilla" for dinner last weekend. Momo arranged it, and sis chose the place to eat. I just need to show up and eat! ;-)

We met at Isetan Scotts because there was some items that we are getting from the Isetan Sale. After getting them, we ate at Tonkichi.

At Tonkichi, the grinding and mixing the sesame seeds with the Tonkatsu sauce is always fun.



This sauce is tasty with the meats. It smells good too!

12 June Update:
A note of thanks to "Spiderx" who emailed. He taught me that I should not use the wooden stick to mix the sauce. Oops! Putting this note here, so that others won't be ignorant and do the wrong thing too :-)

The wooden stick/pestle is for pounding the sesame seeds only. We are suppose to use our chopsticks to stir the tonkatsu sauce with the pounded sesame seeds. (Not with the wooden stick).




Sis wanted something healthier, so she had the Udon Soup with Pork.



It still comes with something fried, but it's potato croquette.



Plus salads.



Gorilla had the Father's Day Set. It has almost everything! Comes with Japanese beer.
Yes, the Father's Day set are available now!



"Can Do" had the Hire Katsu Set.



I had the Cold Ramen set. I think it's delicious as I like cold noodles ;-)



You can choose any katsu on the menu to go with it for the set. I also had another side that comes with my set. I took the chicken karaage.



All of ended our meals with very sweet watermelon. ;-)



It seems every Tonkichi serves a slightly different menu. We saw a notice saying that their new branch at Orchard Central is now opened. Took a peek on another day and see that the Orchard Central branch looks very nice!

Tonkichi @ Isetan Scotts
4th Level, Isetan Scotts
350 Orchard Road
Shaw House
Singapore 238868

Tel: 68354648
Fax: 68353148
Web: http://www.pokkafood.com.sg/tonkichi/

Tonkichi @ Takashimaya Shopping Centre

Last Saturday, it was sort of like a partial family outing. Sis, Bro and I went out to have lunch. It has been some time since we ate with our bro! (Ya, we live under the same roof, but we don't really eat together. He's always at work till late.)

We walked around Takashimaya, hunting for food. We eventually decided to have Jap. So we went to Tonkichi.



Sis had the Rosu Curry. $22. It comes with a bowl of curry.
(Aha.. sis said that I make equally nice curry and taste the same)



With the curry is the Katsu.
(But I can't make nice katsu. haha.. Our kitchen at home is out of bounds to fried food. We hate cleaning oily kitchen hehe..)



Plus a salad.



Bro had the Miso Rosu Katsu Set. $21. Almost similar to sis, except it has the Miso sauce.
For those who love cabbage, rice and miso soup, if you order a set meal, you can have refills of it. We had refills of cabbage but not rice. The salad sauce to be poured over the cabbage is very nice. Light and tangy. One of the reasons we had refills of cabbage :-)



I had the Sauce Katsu Set $22. The diff, mine had the sauce poured over it and shredded seaweed on top. Salty but yummmie....



No, it's not black pig, but it is a satisfying lunch.



Do you usually have meals with your siblings?

Tonkichi (Takashimaya)
391 Orchard Road
#04-24
Takashimaya Shopping Centre
Tower A, Ngee Ann City
Singapore 238872

Tonkichi @ Takashimaya Shopping Centre

Wow, I just show the sauce in yesterday's post and there are people who actually can name the restaurant and the dish! I am so so impressed!

Yes, Evolution_FreeStyles, ryozan and Camemberu is so right. Yesterday, we went to Tonkichi at Takashimaya 4th floor and had Tonkatsu!



Momo had the Hire Katsu. It looks delicious eh?
On the menu, it says it is premium healthy pork! 4 pieces of it. The veg behind can be topped up if you like more.



For me, I suddenly turned healthy and did not take any fried food!
I had Ton Shabu. White Pork instead, and it look so so healthy right? It's very delicious as well!

I love the cucumber pickle below too, and the extremely fiery wasabi! It's the 'shoot right up the head' kind of potency. It comes with a bowl of sauce as well, but it taste very good with the sesame tonkatsu sauce for Momo's dish.



My set came with this delicious bamboo dish too. Too bad it was only a small bowl.
Ooops, some of my wasabi dropped in. :-)



Both were sets, and they came with very good rice and the usual pickles and Miso Soup.



Actually, we also had Cawanmushi. Picture looks usual, so not here.
Plus, Tonjiru. This is actually Miso Soup as well, plus "lots of other nice stuff", quoting the lady who was taking our order. haha..

It really is nice, much nicer than the Miso soup that came with it. There's meat, toufu, bamboo shoots, etc... But you got to have a high tolerance of sodium though :-)



Have a wonderful Friday!

Oh... if you want to know more about yesterday's photo, visit Camemberu's entry about her wonderful Tonkatsu in Japan. I want to try it too!!!

We were playing with food at a Jap place.

Earlier tonite, went with Momo to have dinner. OK, let's have a game. Anyone can guess where this place is and what are we playing with?

After we ordered our food, this came to the table. Hmmm. (we were suaku!) We had to asked what was it for? Toasted white sesame was the reply.




We were suppose to grind them. Then pour the 'x' sauce into it, to go with one of the dishes.



We did not grind them too fine, so that we can still have some 'bits' of it. I wonder if it's suppose to be like that. The moment we crushed them, it smell so so good!



Anyway, we poured in 'x' sauce in.



Then stir.....



Anyone knows what sauce was poured in? :-)