Their lunch menu consists of a variation of mazesoba, soba and rice bowls. Between my 2 lunches, we attempted Tororo Soba ($13) - cold soba with grated yam, Kitsune Soba ($12) - hot soba with a piece of sweet fried tofu, Maze Niku Soba ($15) - cold dry soba with signature sesame sauce and Wagyu Roasted Beef Rice Bowl ($19). You can choose the noodle weight, 100g/200g/300g based on your own appetite at no additional cost and SE went for the 300g, LOL.
Before the food arrived, we had loads of fun eating the onsen eggs that were provided on the table. We had thought they were hard boiled eggs at first, but found out otherwise when we cracked one open on the table. Ha. Ha. Ha.
The eggs were really good! I know they are just onsen eggs with soy sauce and tempura bits but the combined taste is super yummy!!! I gave the egg some picture effects because I loved it.
The eggs appeared to be free flow on my first visit but I believe the flow got less free on my second visit. No matter, we had great fun eating the eggs and easily could eat 2 or 3 at one shot. Ha ha ha.
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| Kitsune Soba |
The light soy based soup of the Kitsune Soba combined with chilli power, tempura bits and seaweed was pleasant and happy combo. My lunch buddy felt that instant soba soup tasted better though I couldn't really comment since I had never tried instant soba soup before. The kitsune rocked, soft and sweet. Yum! The handmade noodles softened up pretty quickly in the hot soup which made eating them less enjoyable as time passed.
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| Tororo Soba |
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| Maze Niku Soba |
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| Wagyu Roasted Beef Bowl |
The Wagyu Roasted Beef bowl felt really healthy with pretty generous serving of soft and lean slices of seasoned tender beef. Yums! The raw egg yolk which sadly did not survive the journey from the kitchen and was served broken really enhanced the texture of the beef and rice. I added some soya sauce n wasabi into the rice. Quite good!
In summary, Hokkaido Izakaya serves good quality produce, handmade soba noodles that are yummy served cold and healthy rice bowls for lunch at Japan Food Town! With the onsen eggs and large noodle portions at no additional cost, it's a pretty good place for lunch!
Hokkaido Izakaya
Japan Food Town @ Wisma Atria
435 Orchard Road
#04-51 (S) 238877
Hours:
Mon to Fri - 11.30am to 3pm, 5pm to 10.30pm
Sat, Sun, PH - 11am to 3pm, 5pm to 10.30pm
Tanjong Pagar
95 Tanjong Pagar Road
(S) 088516
Hours:
Mon to Sat - 11.30am to 2.30pm, 6pm to 12am
Sun, PH - 11. 30am to 2.30pm, 6pm to 10.30pm
