Wawa's Ramblings

Our cravings for Japanese food continued with Saturday lunch at Kuriya at Raffles City. We had always wanted to try this restaurant since it opened but we never got round to doing so. We sat in the 'al fresco' area of the restaurant. The waiter recommended the Tarabagani (King Crab) course ($48) since the crabs are in season and flown direct from Hokkaido. The set consists of an appetizer of the restaurant's home made toufu and cold crab served with special vinegar sauce. The crab meat was sweet and succulent, even on its own without needing the dipping sauce.

This was followed by crab tempura. Perhaps the crab should not have been cooked this way as I could hardly taste the sweetness of the crab like in the first course.


The final course was crab mini pot and crab chirashi sushi. I enjoyed the chirashi as the rice not only had the perfect consistency but also was very tasty with a generous serving of crab meat, prawn, sashimi and roe.

Finally, dessert was a custard pudding. Wow, that was a lot of food but of course this was shared with Co and C.

Co had the the chicken teriyaki don and cold soba set ($14.80) and C had the tempura toji don and warm soba set ($18.30). The restaurant prides itself on their freshly made to order soba and the noodles were springy and tasty.

The desserts were truly yummy and value for money. Now we know where we can get our coffee and sweet fix in Raffles City. This place has bumped 'Out of the Pan' which we normally frequent for coffee and their strawberry cream crepes. This is a much sweeter and better deal! Total cost of lunch for 3; $107 for authentic Japanese food and dessert.