If you like your fish to come off the bone easily in chunky flakes, the Hokke here is a must-order. To help refresh the palate as you feast on this grilled fish, a bowl of finely-grated Japanese radish and a small side dish of sweetish seaweed are served together with it.
I recommend getting this as a set meal because for $5++ more, you are given a bowl of rice, miso soup, pickles, appetiser and chawanmushi.
What I find most impressive though is how Ootoya has managed to maintain their standard all this time.
We had stepped in to the Orchard Central outlet for an early dinner recently, after not having eaten there in years, and experienced service and food quality that's exactly like when the restaurant first opened in Singapore. Amazing.
Oh, and apart from us, every customer in there was Japanese. Which says a lot about its authenticity, don't you agree? 😊