Tampopo

Been reading quite a bit about this place, and supposedly this restaurant served quite a mean ramen. I've been wanting to check out this place for quite awhile, since I pretty enjoy eating ramen. I've read this place gets crowded by around 7 in the evening, so in order to avoid the crowd, decided to make my way there for dinner around 6+ today.

When I was there, the place was probably 30% filled, but by the time I left, the place was more or less full house already.

Since it was my first time here, decided to order the black pig shabu ramen ($13.80) which was supposed to be famous and a mix sashimi ($20). Total bill came up to $39.80. Green tea is served free i believe as I do not see any additional charge other than the service charge, gst and the 2 items I ordered.

As the place was still not crowded, my food was served pretty fast. For the ramen, there's an option for spicy and non spicy. Being a typical Singaporean, decided to go with the spicy. The portion of the ramen is pretty decent, but I find the number of slices of black pig seems to be quite little though. Nevertheless, it was quite tasty, and so is the soup though the soup can be more spicy :). I won't really say this is really exceptional but is definitely quite a good ramen. The sashimi at $20, you get 3 variety of fish, and 3 slices each. The slices are actually very big and thick, and if you compare with those salmon sashi at $5 a plate a sushi tei or something, this is actually not that expensive. One slice of this is probably like 2 - 3 slices at sushi tei.

Overall, I would rate the food here a 3.5 star, and the service and ambience here is pretty decent too.

PS. There's also a reward programme, where 5 ramen gets you a free tonkatsu and 10 ramen gets ya a free sashimi. Downside is the validity is only one month when you start collecting ya chop. So unless you eat there often or eat in big group, doubt most people will able to redeem anything with this reward programme.