Simply authentic and memorable Japanese tempura tendon. Visited this restaurant on a Thursday and there are many seats available the crowd progressively come in from 6.15pm onwards. I had their signature Kohaku tendon set with tempura egg and it was excellent. I recommend the original sauce separated so that the tempura will remain crispy for longer. Service crew are attentive and I recommend their chawanmushi for its flavourful and fresh. Will return again.
Great tempura dons here. Arrived at 9PM (they close at 10PM on the dot) and did not have to wait for seats. The waiting time for the food was pretty long, so we did not have much time to eat.
The tempura were great. The missing star is due to the white rice being too wet. The other bowl that was multi grain rice was not as wet.
Staff were very kind.
Tempura speciality restaurant, limited seating and long waiting time as the chief will fry the tempura only upon order placed. Freshly fried tempura tasted crispy and savoury with the drizzled spicy sauce. Recommend Truffles Kakiage Tendon a nice balanced meal to enjoy.
Chawanmushi (stem egg) was silky smooth and slightly on the salty end. The cold green tea only has very slight hint of green tea taste, while miso soup was nothing to shout about.
Prepare to queue for at least half an hour during peak hours. One of the Chawanmushi served has soured and they manage to change it out. Staffs were arguing besides customers.
Ambience: 8/10
Food: 10/10
Service: 6/10
Price: 7/10
Restaurant opens at 5pm, queue was already forming at 4:55pm. Staff was slow in responding to the crowd. Restaurant was pretty small but was still have the Japan vibes.
Staff wasn't attentive, had to kept hand raised for pretty much a minute or more. Didn't seem to be interested in taking our orders and also didn't confirm our order after that.
We ordered the signature bowl and the truffle bowl. Looks and taste wise were up to expectations! The truffle bowl really did have small bits of truffle sliced into it and tasted really good! The signature bowl portion was generous for the price, packs a crunch on every bite of the tempura. Good job to the chefs who prepared this delicious meal!
Overall experience was pretty good, would come back again after the covid19 restrictions have been lifted. Hopefully by then the staff will be more responsive and less robotic like.
Tried their Signature & Spicy Edomae Tendon Bowls and it's addicting! We queued up for 1 hour to get our hands on this heavenly bowl of Hokkaido Rice and Tempura (which is worth the wait & calories) Highly recommended!
Awesome tempura and very tasty sauce with the rice, many different contents and coke with free miso soup. Served very quickly The service is welcoming and come earlier if u don’t want to queue. Affordable Big portion. highly recommended for anyone who want to get their tendon fix . The spicy sauce is really good , just get the normal don
Still pretty decent. However, the oil fried batter does not seem as crispy and light as before. It tasted a little too greasy and almost doughy??? Nothing fantastic about the miso soup and chawamushi, I guess it’s it’s a nice add on for getting the set meal.
Tendon Kohaku is conveniently located in North Atrium Level 3 of Suntec City, in the tower above Olivia and Co.
They serve really good tendons, with the options of Hokkaido white rice and Japanese 16-kinds Multigrain rice. The original and spicy sauces are really good, so much so that we have never tried the mala sauce.
Do be prepared to queue during rush hour but the food is worth the wait. The service on the other hand is friendly, yet rushed. Also do be prepared that either of the rice options will be sold out if you come after 1830. This has happened to us twice in a row, for both their white rice and multigrain rice options.
The food is quite nice but not fantastic. The service is okay, nothing to complain about. There's always a queue outside I think. We came for lunch and the waiting is so so.
Overall I think it's not bad but not something special that I want to come back given the long queue (often) and the price. Everything is quite standard.
The tempura and batter feels like it has been fried several times because it was dry and chewy rather than light and crispy. The rice portion was to little and kind of undercooked. They didn’t give miso soup because they said there’s no more soup; at the very least they should offer something like a simple drink or a dessert.. to also be fair to them, it was 8.45pm and they did warned us that they are closing and it will be last order… guess we should have just turned and walk away
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