Lunch yesterday was big ass juicy Japanese chicken balls on a stick and fried chicken nugs covered in thick and creamy egg mayo over rice. Did you also say salad, miso soup and a scoop of ice cream? Why yes please.
Taste: 3.5/5
The donburi set lunches at Gosso by the Boat Quay waterfront are decently priced. Each set comes with a small salad with Japanese dressing, miso soup and even a small scoop of ice cream.
Ever since I discovered chicken nanban at Azmaya Honten, my quest for the best dictates that I order it wherever I see it. Gosso's comes with homemade tartar sauce with a touch of vinegar, over 4 large chunks of chicken on a bed of rice. Decent, but the chicken could have been crispier and the sauce, eggier.
Taste: 3/5
For lunch, this place offers a few value-for-money rice bowl options. This is one of the two that were highlighted in the menu with a âRecommendedâ tag, and I found it pretty decent for the price.
The tsukune was indeed large, juicy and really tender but it lacked the crunchy bits of cartilage that I love (Tori-tama at Robertson Quay does a great one if you are looking). The nanban is essentially a slab of boneless deep fried chicken dressed in a light, tangy vinegar-like sauce, and crowned with a heap of creamy tartare. Interestingly, its crunchy coating is not as hard as the ubiquitous karaageâs due to the presence of egg in the batter.
Every lunch set comes with salad, a bowl of miso soup and a small dessert. See what I mean about it being very good value-for-money?
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Specialising in yakitori and rice bowls, OmoteNashi Diningâs most popular and recommended lunch set, Gosso Don ($15) was real comforting and filling. Served nice and pipping hot, the donburi pairs tender yakitori with succulent chunks of chicken that were fried to perfection blanketed by a slightly tangy and sharp house made tar tar sauce to complement. With the desired effect of cutting through the richness of the meats, you would be glad to know that the sauce did not steal the limelight from the yummy Nanban style deep-fried chicken which were surprisingly moist yet crispy.
Available from 11.30am to 2.30pm, each lunch set also comes with mini salad, miso soup and dessert!
Omotenashi Dining Gosso is one of the secret treasures along Boat Quay that the ceaselessly laboring and perpetually overworked CBD crowd love and jealously guard. It's decently affordable ($12.90++ gets you a mini salad, a respectably sized rice bowl of your choice, an obligatory bowl of miso soup and a dessert) and it's pretty darn delicious too.
The Chicken Nanban bowl which I ordered was served piping hot, carefully constructed by the chef right before my very eyes (I took the counter seat). Colossal yet completely juicy and succulent chunks of fried chicken were breaded and seasoned with typical Japanese precision and perfection. As a result, they were absolutely, divinely delicious and undeniably umami. The rice was cooked to perfection, and the underlying teriyaki sauce was bang on target.
What really made this dish legendary was Omotenashi's very own house made tartar sauce. Pleasantly sharp on the tastebuds and chunky in texture thanks to the little chunks of hard boiled egg, it added another, completely welcome layer of umami to the already umami donburi and cut straight through the smidgen of grease on the chicken, leaving you with nothing short of flavor heaven. Couple this bowl of Japanese perfection with a pint of Kirin at just $9.80++ and you've got yourself one of the best working lunches in Singapore.
Although they do tend to get rather overstretched during lunchtime, you can still expect the fabled Japanese standard of service here in this little eatery. The staff (two of whom are actually Japanese and I suspect them to be the proprietors) are extremely polite and will attend to you patiently in short order. With great food and good service at reasonable prices, Omotenashi has secured itself a spot as one of my favorite lunch places.
