Yama-Ya

Most lunch sets under $20. Food is fresh and great quality.

Most of the lunch options here cost less than $10 which is unheard of at raffles place restaurants, so it's well worth exploring this outermost edge of the CBD to get your Japanese fix when the boss is away. The Kaisendon is the most expensive lunch option but exceedingly good value, and served with a side salad and soup.
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Teetotalers will be glad to know that lunchtimes are exempt from the strict drinking rules that apply at nobu-ya, although I still feel a pavlovian need to gulp down sakes whenever the owner has his steely gaze on me.
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🚗 : fortune ctr has multi storey parking but you will need to go quite a few levels up to find availability on weekdays.

Expected Yama-ya’s chazuke to be of the same standard as the one we had at Nobu-ya, but this wasn’t as memorable. Broth tasted much lighter even after mixing in the mentaiko and fresh wasabi. ☹️ Probably needed a lot more metaiko to bring out the flavour. Skip this here and try Nobu-ya’s!

Easily my favourite izakaya appetiser of all time. I just love how intense the fermented flavour is!

Fail-proof appetiser - fresh chunks of tako mixed in with wasabi!

Didn’t expect to be served with a packet of mochi ice cream 😂 Maybe better if they served it unwrapped? Ice cream itself was actually not bad, but too pricey when you can get something similar for half the price at Chateraise.