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1 Nanson Road, 01-10/02-10 The Gallery Hotel, Tel: 6235-3565 Open: Noon to 2.30pm, 6 to 11pm
The focus of this Japanese dining bar is its amazing selection of shochu with, at any time, more than 50 varieties of the distilled spirit available.
The food is designed to go with the drink, but that doesn’t mean you can’t go there if you don’t drink. The izakaya dishes are actually an attraction on their own.
The grilled items are good, with tasty morsels of meat, seafood and vegetables on skewers so tempting that you want to order them all.
But leave room for the other dishes. The chef is a whiz at crossing culinary cultures to whip up some pretty creative stuff.
There is a mentai spaghetti ($12) that is delicious, with the cod roe coating the pasta like a weird but wonderful carbonara.
And if you like fat meat, the belly pork and plum stew ($12) will not only melt in your mouth but melt your heart too.
The pieces of pork have been simmered till so soft that it’s a challenge picking them up with your chopsticks. Just ask for a spoon.