Food Blog : Sho Teppan

We've always walked by this restaurant, located in the shopping mall of Ion Orchard, never even stopping to peer at their menu only because the thought of having to cook our own dinner didn't appeal to us. Now that we're running out of places to eat, we decided to give this restuarant a try and was pleasantly surprised at the yumminess of the food.

Peering into the restaurant, you'll find plenty of seats around a few cooking counters of a normal teppanyaki restaurant except that there's no cook. Everyone has an individual induction plate and the heavy bowl is placed on it. What surprised me more was the fact that they serve shabu-shabu here too.

The hubs ordered the layered pork sukiyaki and I had the wagyu beef teppanyaki. I never knew what sukiyaki was until today. It's where the cooked meat is dipped into raw egg instead of the ponzu sauce. The layered pork came out tender but the soup was a bit too sweet to begin with. The ultimate shabu-shabu is still with plain water from the start!

I have to admit that I don't have an amazingly discerning tongue that I can taste the difference between normal and wagyu beef, but with the seasoning and the way they stopped cooking once the beef was almost done made the dish super yummy. I lapped it all up (except for the spring onions)!

Layered pork

Wagyu Teppanyaki

ps. You can get them to cook the teppanyaki for you, but you'll have to shabu-shabu and sukiyaki yourself.