had another wonderful 4pax family lunch at hachi on 29.12.2015. ^^

i mostly come hachi for dinner & for me, hachi delivers the best kaiseki dinner for the price. wife usually not free for lunch. the last time i had lunch at hachi was almost 2 years ago on 17.1.2014.

every dish in hachi looks fabulous & tastes even better. the edamame was unusual but very good, and you could taste the edamame & the excellent sweet uni which was a pretty good size helping.

my wife took the cheaper S$78 hachi omakase. the rest of us took the S$88 ohmi wagyu 近江和牛omakase.

both were excellent but the wagyu omakase was worth many times more than the S$10 difference.

for the sashimi, we had chutoro, akami (lean toro) & 2 kampachi. for the hachi omakase, it was 2 akami, no chutoro.

the sashimi was very sweet & fresh, top quslity!

wife had the crab chawanmushi. 🙂 really sweet & tasty.

we had something better though – ohmi wagyu 近江和牛sukiyaki!

ohmi wagyu 近江和牛 is among the top 3, after matsuzaka & kobe, so it was just perfect melt-in-the-mouth experiecne.

hachi regularly serves the large oyster during dinner, in different preparations.

this lunch oyster was just as big & good.

basically a freshly shucked oysters with ponzu jelly toppings.

the scallop roll was quite an incredible dish. the hotate was sashimi or rare texture but the batter over seaweed was deepfried.

an excellent age (fried) dish.

we all had the grilled ohmi wagyu 近江和牛. for the wagyu omakase we had 1 more piece = 4 pieces vs 3 for the hachi omakase. ^^

really by comparison, i can only say the ginzawa’s wagyu & onion don at S$50 was truly pathetic!

even the recently upped S$38.80 (used to be just S$30.80) wagyu don set at sumiya was better!

the sushi was superb quality, better than the sashimi.

for the hachi omakase, it was uni, chutoro, kinmedai (golden eye snapper or alfonsino).

all excellent stuff! ^^ 🙂

for the wagyu omakase, we had wagyu sushi in 3 different preps. could not remember but they were all superb, especially with the uni topping! 🙂

there was the cold soba.

quite ordinary, nothing special there.

for dessert, we had the jelly yuzu & blackbeans.

japanese have many difference black beans sweet. i like them all mostly. this one was very good, not too sweet & very good balance to the tangy jelly.

c.h.e.f andy