Deardear's bdae in Hanabi

Went to Hanabi at Bukit Timah Crown Centre to celebrate Dear's bdae. =)
Food in Hanabi is yummy! Especially the potato salad, sashimi and curry katsu rice. hehe. Grilled fish oso not bad. Picspicspics.

On our wayyy to Hanabi in 156. Good lighting hor?= )

In Hanabi restaurant.Dear in his new threadless tee!

Im in my chinese peaches tee too. Heh. Im in love with threadless.com right now. go and visit. V nice tees.

This is the mixed sashimi platter. There are 7 kinds of raw fish/squid/octopus inside. Maguro, yellow tail, sashimi, two other kinds of fish i forgot, boiled octopus and raw squid. The sashimi is really fresh and shiok with wasabi. Thumbs up!

Kimchi with beansprouts. V nice oso with just the right amount of spiciness and sour kimchi paste. Beansprouts doesnt have the raw taste, well marinated and blends into e kimchi.

I love this! The katsu is well fried with lean pork without the usual greasiness. The curry is thick and fragrant and the texture of the sushi rice is really nice, u can feel each grain in ur mouth as u chew, well separated and not sticky/mushy at all.

This is called sakura sushi. I wished tt we could order in smaller amts though, too filling for just 2 of us. But its nice, the sushi doesnt come aprt when u grip it with ur chopsticks and its qq when u bite into it. The pink fish floss round the rice adds a sweetness to the rice with crabmeat cucumber and mayo inside the rolls. Thumbs up for this too!

The raved potato salad, its cold, so order it before the main dishes if you guys go ok as an appetizer, silly me ordered it in my last round.=X Mashed to perfection with carrots hidden inside. Heh. And thats beef yakinuku with onions in sweet teriyaki sauce. Nice too. Its like those yoshinoya kind of thin sliced beef.

Tofu in teriyaki sauce. Hmm, dont really like this, prefer the one in sakae, maybe im not used to its texture, its sort of chewy, it doesnt break apart easily and its sort of gooey, esp its outer crust tt wraps around the tofu. Unique texture though!

Other stuffs include mixed tempura prawns, veggies, grilled fish(must try), kimchi octopus and beef, chawanmushi(got cheese version but din try). Out of 100+ items we managed to order only 15 kinds before we surrendered. Heh. Saw some students ordering the fried garlic rice and soba, the soba is served in a really pretty tray! Omg, it looks good. I will try that next time i visit.

Place:Hanabi Japanese Restaurant

Loc: 559 Bukit Timah Road

King's Arcade,#01-03, S269695

Tel: 64655525/64690525

Call to reserve before u go down as its always nearly full house even during the weekdays!

Ard 35 per pax for dinner.

Wah, really quite tiring to review food places. Tada, nighties folks!

Updates.

Peeps, im back after a long bout of exams. sigh..i screwed my prac up real bad and got insulted by the examiner. How worse can things get? Theres a 99% chance of flunking and i can say bye to my hols.

Anyways heres some pics!

Dear and me having korean seafood hotpot at liang seah street. I like the soup..but i think its not worth cos they put more veggies than seafood. Boo.

Kay, another one, my beloved chinese peaches tee from www.threadless.com. Love it to bits. Cute chubby sumos.=)

Last of all....Narcissist in action!

Btw, I've found a perfect recipe for extremely crunchy choc chip cookies. Damn shiok. Just baked a batch of them yest. Its double choc and normal choc cookies. I realised that the ones with added cocoa powder doesnt spread compared to the normal choc chip cookie. Tata guys! Off to experiment with tiramisu for deardear's bdae, will pose pics of it soon.Heh.