Last week, my family and I decided to make a rare visit to Nex. As it was a Sunday, the huge crowd in the mall was just as expected. We started window shopping and a sale at Hang Ten caught my mom's eye. They were selling skinny fit jeans at $19 per piece! The jeans are made out of my favourite stretchable and comfortable material. I dislike jeans that are stiff and heavy. Definitely not to be missed, I grabbed 2 pairs of jeans for myself ^^
Haha knowing that there is a Shokutsu 10 Japanese Food Street in Nex, I dragged my family along to take a look. The theme of the food street is "Yokoso! Japan", which translates to "Welcome to Japan!". The ambience of the Japanese Food Street is such a contrast to the bustling and noisy mall. With the dim lightings and beautiful contemporary Japanese interior décor, it really made one feel so relaxed and welcomed.
It was just too bad that my family had lunch already. The food photos on the restaurant menus looked so appetizing! My ramen, donburi and gyoza ):
Feeling sad, I made my way out of the food street. I walked past this...
BUT this made me stopped in my tracks. DORAYAKI and so many flavours to choose from!!!
The flavours are divided into 3 categories; Ice-cream, sweet and savoury. The dorayaki are priced at $1.20 to $1.80. Affordable right!! Eager to try both the sweet and savoury flavours, I ordered the Original Azuki ($1.20) and Potato Salad ($1.60).
You can also order the Dorayaki Set ($$3.90) as shown below. It comes with a cup of house brew coffee. Haha the cute Doraemon figurings!
The dorayaki must be good since it was also featured in the newspaper!
Yays the lady staff started to prepare my order. The dorayaki are prepared upon order so that customers get to eat freshly made dorayakis. You can also watch while it's being made ^^
The pancake mixture was first added to the preheated surface grill.
While the grill cooked one side of the pancake, the staff used a blowtorch to cook the other side. Cool right! Haha the blowtorch got to be their secret weapon. You can see the pancake mixture bubbling and rising up to perfection.
The staff then proceeded to flip two pieces of pancakes.
Time to put the fillings! A generous scoop of potato salad and azuki bean paste.
Tadaa..freshly made Dorayakis!!
My brother took a huge bite of the potato salad flavoured dorayaki before I could take a photo. -.- But here's a photo of the azuki flavoured one.
I have tried dorayaki from Four Leaves and other bakeries but they were not enjoyable at all. The pancakes were too dry and the red bean paste was too sweet. It made me wonder why Doraemon love dorayaki so much. But now I know why!
The freshly made dorayaki got to be the nicest dorayaki I've ever had in Singapore. The nice warm aroma just whets your appetite up. The pancakes of the dorayaki were so soft and moist! I liked it that you could still see bits of the azuki bean in the azuki bean paste. It improves the texture of the azuki bean paste. A bite of the warm pancakes and cold azuki bean paste..YUM!
Ohh not to forget, the potato salad flavoured dorayaki was not bad too. My brother really enjoyed it. So if you are not a fan of sweet flavours, do try one of the savoury ones!
While I'm interested in the Japanese Food Street, my brother was more interested in this. Hot-Star Large Fried Chicken.
Looking at the signboard that states "台湾士林夜市第一品牌", the fried chicken got to be good!
Besides the large fried chicken ($4.50 - $4.70), they also sell flavoured fries ($2.50 - $2.80), crispy fried mushrooms ($3.20), sour plum sweet potatoes ($2.80), tempura ($3.50), crispy chicken wings ($2.90 for 2), sotong balls ($2.50 for 4), popcorn chicken ($3.90) and drinks.
Together with their "Fried-to-Order" concept where the chicken will only be fried upon customer's orders, Hot-Star also insists on "No-cutting service" for large fried chicken. The large fried chicken has to be eaten whole to fully enjoy the flavours of the fried chicken. Haha reminds me of KFC! Just got to eat the chicken with bare hands ^^
As it was our first time trying the fried chicken, my brother and I ordered the Original Large Fried Chicken.
My brother and I waited for about 3-5 minutes and we got our order. How could it be so fast? Haha that's because we were given a wrong order! We blindly took it and walked off. By the time we realised it, it was too late to head back and change it -.-
In the end, we got the Seaweed Large Fried Chicken. I did not manage to take a photo that could do the large fried chicken justice so I'm not uploading any. BUT I can vouch that the large fried chicken is really yummy and huge. It's about twice the size of the fried chicken sold elsewhere!
The large fried chicken was really crispy on the outside and moist and tender on the inside! As the fried chicken was only thinly coated with batter, it was not too oily! Personally, I do not like seasonings on my fried chicken as the seasonings are sometimes too salty and overpowering. However at Hot-Star, the staff smartly sprinkled seaweed seasoning only on one side of the chicken. Good right!
Both the Dorayaki and Large Fried Chicken at Nex are really worth trying! Thumbs-up!
Warmly,
Mari
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