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“All right, let’s go for some Japanese Kebabs at Shin Kushiya Now!” I said with authority.
“Ok, whatever you want, my dearest,” gf replied with utmost deference.

Well…the above conversation didn’t really take place. It was more like:

“erm…how ah…what to eat?” I asked.
“anything…you decide…I am not hungry,” gf said with some authority.
“I don’t know leh…can you help decide..I have no idea,” I replied with utmost deference.
“aiyah..why don’t we just try Shin Kushiya since we are here already,” gf instructed.
“okie”

A queue had already formed. Sigh.. I hate queues.

Sitting down at the waiting area gave me an unobstructed view of the industrial and spartan settings of the place. It seems like the restaurant management has decided to forgo the usual decor and placed cost savings as the top priority. I hope their management philosopy does not extend to their food.

Seated at our table, I was immediately fascinated by the various condiments they have: 3 kinds of flavoured sea salts, japanese sweet sauce and chilli powder!

Green Tea Salt (green in colour..duh), Chilli Salt (orange) and the Plum Salt (lavender colour). Truth be told, I wasn’t able to really differentiate between the flavours. There was just a slight hint of the complex ingredients involved in the making of the salt. Anyway, the salts were meant to compliment the meat skewers.

Our appertiser arrived in this form. Japanese Style Potato (S$5.80). Naturally small potatoes that were boiled and served with a sweet mayonnaise paste. It was a cold dish and I didn’t really appreciate it. To me, they looked like little turd balls. I would classify it as a gf dish.

For our rice supplement, we had the Shin Yaki Onigiri (S$3.40) and the Vivo Yaki Onigiri (S$3.80). Basically, they were rice balls - one with eel inside, the other with meat.

It was very appertising and unique. Sort of like atas (Malay slang for high class) rice dumplings. While I was taking pictures of the dish, the table next to us gave us strange looks - the kind of look that conveyed a certain amount of disdain at the absurdity of people in the world today. Sigh..the price of being an anal documenter of food.

The dishes that followed were all the meat skewer dishes. The descriptions of the items do not necessary fit the picture. It was just a blur of meat on sticks.

I can definitely identify the Shiitake (S$1.90) as the grilled mushroom. The rest of it was Tsukune (S$1.90), Black Yakitori (grilled chicken, S$2.20), Guy Enoki Maki (S$3.60), Buta Rosu Karashi (S$2.80) and the Isobeyaki (S$3.80).

Maybe it was the high prices compared to the normal satay I have (which cost around S$0.50 per stick), we savoured these Japanese kebabs.

The next time we are here, I will venture to try their Fugu or pufferfish dish. Who knows, I might gain my 15 seconds of fame by being the first casualty of pufferfish poisoning in Singapore..heh.