Azmaya Honten Review: $12 Nett Japanese Curry And Shabu Shabu Buffet At Somerset
150-minute Japanese buffet at Azmaya Honten Most of the time when your friends say to you “Let’s eat at Orchard!”, you’d expect to spend quite a bit at 313@Somerset , Orchard Gateway or one of the typical haunts along the busy shopping district. It’s likely one of the cheapest restaurants in the building Their lunch bu…
Food at Azmaya Honten The Lunch Buffet is a mere $12 , which is already mind-bogglingly cheap for any sort of buffet. It did make for a funny but awkward scene when four random people had to gather around the bubbling pot and wait in silence for their meat and vegetables to be cooked.
While the quality of the meat was decent, it was essentially just boiled in plain water. It was hard to eat the meat without any taste, but the free-flow sauces came to the rescue.
The enoki and shiitake mushrooms were juicy and chewy, and the broccoli was firm and fresh in taste. The drawback was that the raw greens had to be cooked in the shared pot first. The veggies were a little tasteless, due to the bland soup being the root of the problem.
Sitting next to the vegetables was a pot of steaming Japanese curry and a rice cooker full of pearl rice. The curry itself was thick and gooey, with a rich sweetness to it.
The rice had a business and chewy texture, which went well with the curry and other side dishes. They were slightly tough but went well with the curry and rice. They weren’t particularly high in quality or special, but were a nice addition to the buffet, considering its affordable $12 price tag.
The restaurant did not skimp on meat for the karaage, and the chunks of savoury chicken were great with mouthfuls of rice, curry, and egg. The result was a mouthful of soft and chewy udon, wth the salty-sweet sauce clinging to it.
Each mouthful of the savoury soup was filled with texture too, as it was chock-full of delicious vegetables. While the exterior of the building was old and gloomy, the hotpot restaurant had a relaxing, cosy atmosphere.
The restaurant was a bit dim, but was large and roomy, with plenty of space to get up and walk around. The verdict Overall, the food was decent and the ambience of the restaurant was enjoyable. While the meat wasn’t as good as I hoped, the other dishes made up for it.
There was plenty of toothy pearl rice and sumptuous sweet curry to go around.
- Who: Japanese · Azmaya Honten · Cuppage Plaza · Azmaya Honten Most
- Money: $12 · $12,
