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Mrupupup totally enjoyed this Yakyakibo Teppanyaki Restaurant at Nex Mall (#B1-78) . They served up Japanese Teppanyaki food and was delicious! Mrupupup ordered two Teppanyaki sets. Surprisingly, the Teppanyaki 'cooked' bean sprouts came first. Mrupupup kept on eating the bean sprouts! Never knew bean sprouts could taste so nice! 1. Teppanyaki Marmite Pork ($16) The taste was unique. The Teppanyaki infused the pork with marmite sauce. The pork was very tender and went very well with a bowl of soft and delicious rice. The set also came with bean curd cooked teppanyaki style, slices of oranges and miso soup.         2. Oyster teppanyaki style ($12 with rice set) First time ordered oyster cooked in Teppanyaki style. If you don't like the taste of oyster, don't order this. However, if you are crazy over oyster omelette, do try teppanyaki oysters which were cooked very well. Do add a bit of chilli flaks to lessen the strong taste of oysters.

The little Japanese Ramen eatery, Keisuke Tonkotsu King Ramen, satisfied a huge craving of Mrupupup for Ramen (Japanese noodles). The little squeezy 18 seater ramen shop is located at Orchid Hotel Singapore, 1 Tras Street, along Tanjong Pagar area. Daily queues of at least 30mins are common for the evening meal at Keisuke Tonkotsu King Ramen. Mrupupup ordered the ramen (about $14) per bowl and slurped it all up. The unique thing about this shop was that it serve boiled eggs and customer could have as many eggs one could eat. The ramen was very good with a delicious soup base, golden egg yolk and nice piece of pork char siew. Non- spicy version   Spicy version of ramen     Unlimited servings of eggs and bean sprouts   Quite a squeeze in the ramen shop   Nice Golden egg yolk   Old pictures deco   King of Japanese Ramen  

Mrupupup first time tried out Sushi Express (food chain originated from Taiwan) located at Citylink Mall (#B1-23 - near to adidas sports store), Singapore. Why first time? Because the queue is very long! That friday evening- Mrupupup got to brave the queue for 45 minutes and find out why the place was so popular. Mrupupup could find two reasons for Sushi Express's popularity - cheap and decent sushi & sashimi. Where to find in Singapore $1.50 plates for all Japanese conveyor belt food?  Sushi Express had salmon sashimi, sushi of various types and many more..... All the dishes at $1.50 per plate (excluding service charges). Mrupupup just ate about 15 plates of sushi express! Too much salmon in Mrupupup's belly, burp! Nice prawn sashimi - quite sweet & fresh All Sushi at $1.50 Conveyor belt sushi Look at the pinkish fresh salmon Rows of salmon sushi - fresh on the conveyor belt Full house @ Sushi Express

Yummy. Pasta de Waraku serves up Western style food with a nice Japanese touch. Mrupupup went to the Pasta De Waraku branch at Changi Aiport Terminal 2. Mrupupup enjoyed a very nice thin crusted pizza filled with crab roe and potato (about $14) & duck pasta (about $15). Pasta De Waraku has many choices for pasta and pizza. You could take a pick of your favorite just by looking at the plastic version of the food dish. Pasta De Waraku staff were very attentive. The waiters were quick and served Mrupupup well. Pretty good! Very nice pizza - hmmmm! the duck was delicious!

Mrupupup visited the new Tamoya Udon outlet at Liang Court Shopping Mall- first floor. The place sells handmade udon with yummy broth from the home of udon (Sanuki, Japan) with freshly made and very nice tempura items like prawn, vegetables, mushroom, eggplant, sweet potato and many more. You can also try their Japanese potato croquette.  Tamoya was established in the home of udon, Sanuki in Japan. Tamoya Singapore is their first overseas outlet. Mrupupup loved the freshly made udon - dry or soup version (from $4.80 onwards) and yummy tempura pieces (range from $1 to $3).

Mrupupup likes Japanese food. One Sunday night, Mrupupup tried out the Fish Mart Sakuraya in Parkway Parade (#B1-83D). This place served up pretty nice Japanese food. Mrupupup had the Japanese oden, salmon croquette (fried potato) and sushi rice with salmon, tuna slices on top. Pretty good. Mrupupup liked the Japanese Oden with fish cake, reminded of Mrupupup's previous trip to Japan. The price of the food was pretty alright (between $8 for oden to $14 for the salmon rice) and could get quite busy during weekends.

HiFuMi Japanese Restaurant served up pretty nice Japanese food. The food at Hifumi reminded of Mrupupup's time in Japan. Hifumi's salad bar free flow of dishes served was uniquely Japanese like their potato salad, rice crackers, sweet desserts, bean curd and etc . Mrupupup ordered their salmon and teriyaki chicken sets which came with rice and soup. Mrupupup was more attracted to the free flow salad bar and was tucking into too many cups of chawamushi (steamed eggs in a cup). Very nice and per person about $15. Hifumi is located at Plaza Singapore #04-68 (at near Dhoby Ghaut station) - Orchard Road. Warning- Mrupupup ate too much food in Hifumi! Really felt like a 'value for money' buffet. Arhhhhh... the sweet potato sticks in the salad bar was just so nice!

Woohooo.... There is a new Japanese Cafe in town - St Marc Cafe located at Vivocity First Floor (facing the harbour) and it is their first branch in Singapore. Mrupupup ordered a large cup matcha latte ($7) and their awesome croissants (plain and chocolate) - $2.40 and $2.60 each estimated. The green match latte was great and taste very nice especially with the croissants. The St Marc Cafe's croissants were really crispy and wonderful to the taste. Mrupupup ordered two croissants and felt like ordering more! Wonder why Mrupupup never encountered this St Marc Cafe when he went travelling in Japan! St Marc Cafe also serves up ice cream desserts, pastries, bread and various types of coffee. Do get their St Marc Cafe coupon which gives one a 10% discount on all items till May 2013. Mrupupup is going again to St Marc Cafe one day.