27 Aug - Bonsai Restaurant and Café Lounge, Northbridge

Julie's birthday this year was at Bonsai in Northbridge, the same place that CB and I ate at in 2009 prior to its opening.

After perusing the menu, I ended up picking a few items from the their sushi and "shares" menu, meant for sharing amongst others.

Unagi sushi. Japanese BBQ eel and cucumber dressed with aioli & caramel soy. Similar to the usual unagi sushi, but was missing the teriyaki sauce which usually accompanies it. Coupled with wasabi and soy sauce, this went down well.

Mushroom miso soup. Combination of Japanese mushrooms (shiitake, shimeji, enoki and portobello) in your favourite traditional miso soup. Sounded good with all the mushroom goodness, but for some reason, not as flavourful as other misos.


Fried chicken tosazu. Pieces of deep fried chicken boneless thigh fillets served with leek tosazu sauce. The chicken was flavoured with soy and ginger, similar to karaage and therefore disappeared within a few minutes. If only I got the crab balls with the chilli mayonaise at the same time...

Chilli crab claws. Golden deep-fried crab dumpling, served with hot chilli mayo. The crab was sweet and coating was crunchy, although these were smaller than two years ago.

I washed it all down with water and Gen Mai tea. The service was a little erratic this time and food came in dribs and drabs.

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