Kaisen Mori & Chirashi Gozen at Ichiban Boshi (Great World City)

Ichiban Boshi, a Japanese restaurant that offers Japanese dining experience with nuance of simplicity yet modern. Located next to the downward escalator to Basement 1 Great World City, you won't miss it as it is usually packed with people queuing during dinner time.

Kaisen Mori & Chirashi Gozen

The photo above was Kaisen Mori & Chirashi Gozen, the special dish they had when we visited last Thursday evening. It comes in a large tray packed with various yummy dishes. Let's start with the upper right bowl.

Zoomed up in the picture below is salmon and tuna with rice bowl. The rice bowl should actually have three type of fish, salmon, tuna and swordfish. Unfortunately we were told that they had runout of the swordfish and thus replaced by more salmon and tuna. Never mind, it's still as good as it gets. The rice is like the rice quite soft, like the one used to serve sushi. The salmon and tuna are chopped into small pieces so that it's easily mixed with the rice.

Salmon and Tuna Rice Bowl

The next at the white rectangular plate contains tiger prawn, salmon, codfish and scallop. The three tiger prawns are deep fried until the shell become crispy. Both fish, the salmon and codfish, are pan-fried. The salmon is perfectly fried and its skin become crispy.

Fried Prawn, Pan-fried Salmon and Codfish, and Baked Scallop

Unfortunately the codfish is a little bit too oily, though its skin is also crispy. Both are served with pink coloured house-special sauce. The left most on the plate are two pieces of scallop, baked with cheese on the top.

Completing the set are udon with fried bean curd, chawanmushi, an appetiser and two slices of watermelon.

With the set containing variety of dishes, it's definitely worth for the money spent. If you think you can't finish them all alone, you can share with your spouse or your girl/boyfriend as it is big enough to serve 2 persons.

Tempura Ice Cream

Completing the dining experience, I ordered tempura ice cream. It's ice cream covered with tempura skin and deep fried in the boiling oil. Once the oil is strained, it's topped with strawberry paste. You still can feel the warmth of the fried tempura, yet you'll feel the freshness of an ice cream inside.

Dim Sum at Xin Cuisine Chinese Restaurant (Part 1)

I've read a number of great review about dim sum at Xin Cuisine Chinese Restaurant, but have never had a chance to try because the dim sum is only served during lunch period. Well, today my wife and I can't resist to taste it.

The dim sum menu has a lot of choices and we can only try some of them. Here they are.

Minced Pork & Century Egg Porridge. It is the first to come. It contains just the right portion of minced pork and century egg, topped with crispy cracker. The porridge is quiet thick though and it can make your stomach feels full. I'd suggest you don't eat it as the starter.

Deep Fried Dumpling with Fresh Salad
The Deep Fried Dumpling is really fried deeply. It contains a mixed of meat with some fresh salad inside it. Served with mayonnaise, makes the appearance looks nice and taste great. 

Chicken Feet
My wife's all time favorite is never missed for any dim sum tasting.

Suckling Pig with Goose Liver
This is a must try in this restaurant. Topped with crispy pork skin, it consist of a layer of pork fat, goose liver and cucumber at the bottom.

Shrimp Dumpling
Har Kao (Shrimp Dumpling) is my all time favorite dim sum. Unfortunately there is not many places that serve nice har kao. Usually it's either too soft or too hard, or the skin is just not smooth. Although it's not the best, I would say the har kao at Xin Cuisine is just having the right composition. It has smooth skin, and soft contour.

Deep Fried Ice Cream
Don't know what to order for dessert, we tried deep fried ice cream. It came up in a nice looking. Served with 2 slices of strawberry and topped with mint leaves, it just look great. The ice cream itself is surrounded by the "skin" that protects when it is fried. It's half melted when I tasted.

In the next post, I'll cover some other dim sum dishes available in this restaurant.