Mother's Day Lunch at Le Cuisine @ Chinatown Point

 

Tamoya Udon @ Chinatown Point

I was back at Chinatown Point again the day after I had the collagen hotpot at Tsukada Nojo with my girl friends.  This time, I was back here with hubby as we wanted to book our tour package to Hokkaido.  We settled our lunch at Tamoya Udon first before we went to the travel agency.

At the shopfront, you can find a video showing the delicate udon-making process.  It was really interesting.  Do check it out if you happen to be around.  

Tamoya was established in the home of udon, Sanuki (now known as Kagawa) prefecture in 1996 by Sanuki udon champion, Tamotsu Kurokawa.  Tamoya Singapore is their first overseas outlet!  Sanuki udon is hand-crafted from Tamoya's proprietary flour mixture (made from 3 different flour) and is served with "golden dashi" broth.

Ordering system is "Self-Service" style.

First, you choose the type of udon that you want.  Then your fresh bowl of udon will be served to you almost immediately.

 After that, you can proceed to the tempura counter and choose your sides.

 They have rice balls too.

Once payment is done, you can helped yourselves to the soup and the condiments. 

Free flow of soup and tempura sauce.  Very convenient for the patrons to refill our own soup.

 There is a condiments counter and we helped ourselves to the variety of condiments that were available.

 Hubby ordered his udon with beef slices. ($11.55)

 Some sides to share amongst us.

 I only ordered Kake Udon (Udon with broth)  as I took most of the sides.  Heehee.....The udons were thick and chewy type. ($5.15)

The prices include GST and there is no Service Charge.  :)

 Love this tempura prawn.

After lunch, we went to the travel agency - CTC to book our Hokkaido tour package.  Due to hectic working schedule, we didn't really have time to plan for this trip.  Thus, we decided to take up a tour package this time round.  We will extend a few days stay at Tokyo on our own.

 We were given so many lucky draw coupons that I had yet to fill them up.

 Spotted a "bunny" car as we made our way to the carpark.

Tamoya Udon
133 New bridge road
Chinatown point SC B1#48-49
http://tamoya.com.sg/

Tsukada Nojo 塚田農場 for 美人鍋! @ Chinatown Point

17 April 2014:  One of our preggie friends had a craving for hotpot and the group suggested going to Tsukada Nojo for their famous collagen hotpot - 美人鍋!  This was my second visit to Tsukada Nojo and during the first visit with hubby, we didn't manage to try the collagen hotpot as it was not available during weekend lunchtime then and we had ramen instead.  We made a reservation and all of us were early and thus, we managed to secure 2 tables easily.  Heard from my friend that for this branch at Chinatown Point, they allow reservation but will only hold the table for 5 mins.

 The "magical" beancurd-like collagen was presented to us.

 As this was my first time having the collagen hotpot, I was given a namecard with the title "Assistant Manager". 

 2 of my friends (Sam and Angeline) were promoted to "Manager" as this was their second time having the hotpot.  Thus, they were "rewarded" with a complimentary basket of fries each.  They passed one basket of fries to my table where there were 3 kids.

 Our friends who had tried this recommended us to order this dish:  

Chicken Nanban - Original Flavour ($8.50++)

It was indeed very tasty.

 Homemade Tamagoyaki  ($4.50++)

The sweetened omelette was nicely layered into a heart and we loved the texture.  My table ordered 2 plates of this.

 Waiting for the collagen to melt to form a delicious and tasty broth...

 The ingredients were presented to us in this manner.  This was for 3 pax.  The standard set for each person cost $25++.

 We were served a teacup of the broth for the "original" taste before all the other ingredients were added in.

 We also ordered a plate of thin noodles to share.

 At the end of our meal, we were served a complimentary plate of jelly on a nicely decorated plate with the staff's "drawing".

 They had already pre-prepared many plates of "drawing" and were placed on the rack next to our table.

Overall, the quality of food was good and I don't mind coming back again for more collagen!

Tsukada Nojo 塚田農場
Chinatown Point, 133 New Bridge Road #02-37, S059413
Tel: 64448840

Opens Daily
Lunch: 11:30 - 15:00
Dinner: 17:00 - 22:00

Tsukada Nojo 塚田農場 (Bijin Nabe) @ Chinatown Point

11 Jan 2014:  We wanted to see the official light-up of Chinatown on this day but in order to avoid traffic congestion in the evening, we decided to go over to Chinatown earlier in the late afternoon.  We parked our car at Chinatown Point and had our lunch here.

There were quite a number of restaurants to choose from. many of them were newly opened I guess or I had not been to Chinatown Point for quite some time.  Poulet, Genki Sushi, Peach Garden, Tsukada Nojo , Din Tai Fung, Hong Guo etc were some of the restaurants that we saw at the 2nd level.  We decided on Tsukada Nojo, which is famous for their collagen hotpot (美人锅).

For lunch, the beauty hotpot was not available and thus, we both order the recommended Shio Ramen (Jidori collagen soup) at $16.80 per bowl. 

 This snack seemed interesting and at first we ordered two of different flavours.  While ordering, I saw a notice at the side of the table that gave us instruction on how to get one Nikumaki Onigiri (standard) free.  We need to use our smartphone to scan the QR code and showed to the staff the promotion page.  Since we had a free one, we just need to order another one.  We chose the Nikumaki Onigiri with Yuzu pepper & Mayo.

Instead of sliced Char Siew, the ramen here was served with thick slices of chicken.

 The staff recommended us to enjoy the soup first before putting all the ingredients into the bowl as the ingredients would change the taste of the soup.  Indeed, the soup on its own was really very tasty.  However, by the time I finished the ramen and the ingredients, the soup became "oily".  Thus, I didn't finish up all the soup.  

 This is the record to keep track of the number of customers who patronize their restaurant.  Those who visits for the first time started off as assistant manager.  You will be "promoted" when you visit the restaurant again.

 Some Chinese New Year event sales at the atrium.

Tsukada Nojo 塚田農場
Chinatown Point, 133 New Bridge Road
#02-37, Chinatown, S059413