we decided to try nabehide where amex lovedining offers 50% discounts for 2pax this evening on 1.10.2016.^^

restaurant was quite with few customers at 7.30pm on a saturday.

server told us restaurant closing/shutting down on 23.10.2016. no business i guess.

the usual lovedining conditions require minimum order of 2 main courses.

unlike most lovedining restaurants where you can order 2 mains from the ala carte menu, nabehide restricts the 2 main courses to a small palate (now lovedining) menu.

we were uncertain of the quality of the Jap wagyu, so we started with 1 order.

the 250g wagyu was served in 2 trays, 9 pieces.

wagyu was tender & flavourful. quality was very good. 🙂

the wagyu came with complimentary vegetable platter. or choices of 3 items from the veg menu.

we picked the platter for our first order.

the hotpot came in a cast iron pot over a smokeless charcoal stove.

the server told us the S$5 goma (sesame) dashi the most popular. the knobu dashi is free, so we had the 鸳鸯 duet dashi. there s no 50% discounts for the $5 dashi.

we were happy with the wagyu so we order a second serving, plus we tried the S$8.90 pork collar as well.

this time we had 3 veg=tan orh, king oyster mushroom & shitake. 🙂

pork collar was pretty good actually, just that we didn’t really need it, just to try only.

the goma dashi after infusing all the wagyu goodness, was super tasty.

japanese normally don’t take soup from shabu shabu. but this goma dashi obviously for drinking & it was very good.

the damage (at S$160nett for 2pax) was substantial, even with 50% discounts…haha! 🙂

of course one can be paying S$350/kg for jap wagyu steak at isetan supermart. for shabu beef maybe S$200+/kg, and we had 500g wagyu for 2 servings, should be almost 500g anyway for the 4 trays.

they charge service on the full price (so that’s S$22.60). restaurant need to make some money la…so nothing to say.

the sake at S$22.80 was poor/average quality…

nothing like the S$15 for 4 sake smapler at sun with moon.

i think dinner was ok, not great value for money (mikuni’s S$48 wagyu sukiyaki + 50% discounts would be better value) but quite ok.

c.h.e.f andy

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