Dozo - Fine Modern Japanesque Restaurant

Dozo Fine Modern Japanesque Restaurant. This is not the first time my wife and I comr to this place, and this is one of our favorite one. This restaurant is set to provide a sexy and seductive nuanse of fine dining experience. What does it mean? Well, think of fine dining experience with low light is available to produce such a romantic experience. But what makes this restaurant is the dining experience you'll need to try by yourself.

At Dozo, there is only a single price available here at a time, the lunch package price with 6 type of dish which cost around $50 or the dinner one which is more expensive but with 7 type of dish to choose, cost around $70. Once you arrive, you'll be greeted and ushered to your table. If this is your first time coming here, they'll start explaining what to expect.

Because I was coming here for dinner, I need to choose 7 type of dish and drink. The 7 type of dish for me and my wife don't need to be the same. It's up to each individual to choose from the available menu. Within each type of dish, there are about 6 or 7 menu to choose, so you have plenty of choices to satisfy your stomach.

So here are the food that I chose:

Cold Yuzu Refreshment

This Yuzu refreshment is not part of the menu to pick. It's complimentary to refresh you. It's super cold until the drink is mid-frozen. As seen on the left, 2 small cups of yuzu are served in a big bowl full of ice to keep the drink fresh.

Chef's choice of starter. From left to right: Salmon with mint leaf, scallop topped with yuzu foam, and chocolate topped bread

The starter in the photo above, or on the right is the first one to be served. It's not my choice, but it's chef choice. So I guess it's gonna be different from time to time. However every guest will get the same one. As the waiter suggested, it is best to start from the center, which is scallop topped with yuzu foam; continued with the one on the right, which is bread topped with chocolate; and finished the starter with the one on the left, which is salmon sitting on top of mint leaf and topped with cream. Well, it's really a starter because it really makes our stomach crave for more.

Smoken duck breast on bed of greens with cranberry vanetta

The above dish is really the one I ordered. It is called "Smoked duck breast on bed of greens with cranberry vanetta". As the name says, it's smoken duck breast, cut in thin slices. The meat is really tender and combined with some vegetables and crackers dipped in cranberry sauce, it's a perfect dish after a nice starter. The portion is just right, not too much and not too little considering we still have a few more dishes to go.

Gratinated escargots topped with yuzu butter

The next on my order list is escargots. To be precise, it is gratinated escargots topped with yuzu butter. The escargot is baked with a topping of grated cheese. For those who don't like exotics food, I really suggest you to try this. This is unlike any other, the escargot is soft with topping of cheese and baked perfectly, it's something you really have to try.

Before the main dish, I actually have ordered a bowl of clam soup. Unfortunately the look of the soup is not really good for photo snapping. But don't get me wrong. Though the look is not so good, but the taste is superb. It really makes your stomach warm.

Duck confit

And for the main dish, I chose duck confit. Well, the name says it all. For those who don't know what duck confit is, you can take a look here. In short, it is duck leg cooked in its own fat and preserved. How about the taste? It's the best.

Iced fruity refresher - refreshing blend accompanied with assorted fresh fruits

The drink is also part of the 7 menu that I have to choose. This time I choose Iced fruity refresher. It's basically juice of combination of apple and pineapple; that's why it is called refreshing blend.

Japanese style red bean puff with vanilla ice cream

The last but not least, it's the dessert. For dessert, I choose red bean puff in Japanese style with vanilla ice cream. The red bean filled puff is slightly different that any other puff. The red bean is kind of melted within the puff, so when you start to bite it, the lava of red bean is melted in your mouth

Mutton Biryani at Bismillah Biryani Restaurant

When my colleagues arranged for Friday team lunch in Bismillah Biryani, my initial thought was, is it nice food? My experience eating Biryani rice so far was not so good. Most are tasted like too oily fried rice with some Indian gravy. But it would be unfair if I rejected to join without really knowing how the food quality is.

Located at 50 Dunlop Street, it is between Bugis and Little India MRT station. We took MRT to Bugis station and walk to the place. Arriving at the site, I was even more skeptical when looking at the front of the restaurant. It looks like a rundown 2 storeys shop house that requires poles to prevent the second storey to collapse, with limited lights within the restaurant. Does it really have nice food?

Entering the restaurant, we were greeted by two Chinese old couple who took our orders. There are only 4 dishes served, namely chicken, mutton, fish and vegetables biryani. So I tried the mutton biryani.

Mutton Biryani

Usually when I look at any biryani rice sold in Indian restaurant, it looks like oily fried rice topped with so much gravy. Here at Bismillah Biryani, there is so little (almost none) of oil in the rice. I was amazed from the first mutton entered my mouth. It was so soft and tender. It was like melted in my mouth and tasted so good. As you can see in the picture above, the rice does not have so much oil. It also does not have extra gravy.

Served with an egg, it costs only $9.00. It so much worth for the money, considering the portion is really huge.

The owner (I guess) told me that the way they cook is by cooking the mutton first, then put the mutton at the bottom while cooking the rice. That way, the mutton flavour will be absorbed by the rice. So with four different flavour of biryani rice, he cook them separately to get each flavour deeply within the rice.


Location: 50 Dunlop Street. You can stop at Bugis MRT station or Little India and walk to the restaurant.