3 Eateries For Your Weekend Makan Plans
Go to Tsukiji Fish Market...in the middle of Orchard Road, plus where to get New York-style bagels.
1. Tsukiji Fish Market Restaurant
Don’t get too excited yet — the beloved Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo has not opened an outpost in Singapore. This eatery just borrows the famous name as its Japanese owner was inspired by the idea of having a cluster of Japanese restaurants surrounding a wholesale fish market. Instead, the 160-seat enclave at Orchard Central has a mid-sized aquarium which offers live seafood like prawns, oysters and lobsters. But there are no individual food stalls here, just a single restaurant offering six types of Japanese cuisines (some of which are strangely labelled ‘restaurants’), all served from a central kitchen. Four are currently available — including the namesake Tsukiji Fish Market Restaurant serving grub like Uni Sushi ($26.80 for two pieces) and Salmon, Flying Fish Roe & Cream Cheese Don (see main photo, $10.80), as well as Ebi Zo Ebi Tempura Restaurant, which offers an Ebi Zo Special Tempura Don ($20.80, left) heaving with unagi, squid and crab tempura.
#12-02 Orchard Central, 181 Orchard Road, S238896. Tel: 6634-2803. Open daily noon-3pm, 6pm-10.30pm. Last orders 30 mins before closing. www.facebook.com/TsukijiFishMarketRestaurant