WAAAAAAH Waraku

Chomp Venue:
Waraku
86 East Coast Road
BLK B #01-11/12/13
Katong Village

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Met up with LTNC friend no. 1 and ky today for lunch. Our original plan was to eat at Katong's Aston's Specialties (the potato salad!!!), but the lunch queue was vvv long and it wasn't budging the slightest bit. Plus there were two large groups of students waiting in the queue. We couldn't decide between the various alternatives (which included a laksa steamboat which we saw along the way from the bus stop to Aston's, katong laksa, some korean restaurant, Waraku...) and walked up and down for a number of trips.

And SO... we settled for Waraku.


Japanese green tea. A must drink for me at any Japanese restaurant, to warm up my stomach and to aid digestion (although this is supposedly a myth).

Anyway, after practically salivating over every page of the menu (we did get hungry with all that walking), we decided to share 1 udon, 1 rice and set meal. The food did take a vvvlong time to come though.



Look at all that suspicious spring onion which my friend hates to the core. Being considerate, ky and I fished out every bit of that offending vegetable from the bowl.


Chanpon Udon at $14.80. Look at all the good stuff beyond the udon!! Prawns, squid, bacon and scallops. The squid was extra springy! The seafood was fresh and good, but rather sparse=p. But I got to enjoy more of the scallops in the next udon :). Given the quality, I rather pay for this quantity then be given cheap but plentiful seafood. I love the udon too~ I'm usually not a fan of udon, I prefer ramen cos there's a sourish taste to udon sometimes. But this time I slurped on the udon happily. Possibly cos the soup was too tasty and the udon didn't have the strange sourish taste. Plus this was served as a hotpot, so the udon was kept warm :).





Sakura at $18.80. This was a set meal which consisted of hotate udon in cream sauce plus a bowl of rice topped with egg and fish roe. Scallops were fatt. The rice was really good, we finished every grain of it. And the cream sauce went very well with the rice too=p. The fish roe bursts as you bite into it. Mmmm~ And I have to say, the bowl in which the hotate udon came in was GINORMOUS. Heavy as well=O. The bowl was only about half filled.


Hokkai Udon (mini) at $13. Rice with raw salmon, squid, egg and fish roe + miso soup. Beside the oversized hotate udon bowl, this did look mini. But the salmon made feel like eating sashimi when I visit Waraku again the next time. Ahhh.



Emptied bowls (except for that miso soup which I drank up afterwards).


Tartufo at $8. Chocolate ice cream with vanilla ice cream in the middle. Maybe it was an overdose of fantabulous food. But wells. This tasted pretty normal. The chocolate ice cream was so-so, vanilla ice cream was slightly better.



Spent about $22 each for the gorgeous meal. Stuffed but happy:DD. Yaayy.

Although the original plan was to spend $6.90 at Aston's.

Hehh.