Taichi - Kuishin-bo @ Suntec

"We've been to Kuishin-bo at least 4 times during the past 2-3 months itself!" we realised as we were tucking into our food last Friday, as we visited the Japanese gourmet bazaar once again. Bearing in mind that we weren't TOO hungry then, the photos are quite limited-la.



Kuishin-bo is a place for a Japanese buffet lunch spread at relatively affordable prices. On weekdays, it is SGD22.90 for adults and about half price for kids. An amusing thing that we observed was that children had to be 1.4m or below to qualify. Weekends is 36 buckeroos for the buffet lunch. They serve dinner buffets as well - weekend dinner buffets are SGD36 for adults and half price for kids.

Another interesting thing is that they have this plan called 'Express Buffet'. If you finish your meal within an hour, the lunch buffet is only SGD19.80. Very worth it, if you ask me.

A picture of its seating arrangement from our corner table...


This is a picture (albeit a blur one) of the sushi 'bar'. On the left is where the lovely sashimi is laid out and the 'shi fu' for handroll is situated.


The teppanyaki chef at work. When you want teppanyaki, you can just pick the raw and very fresh veggies, salmon, beef, chicken or pork onto a plate, use the clip labelled with your table number on the plate and wait for the teppanyaki to be served to you! We didn't have teppanyaki that day as we weren't too hungry.


We started off with some sushi...


salmon and tuna sashimi, pickled cucumber salad and baby octopus salad


followed by one of my favourites - soft shell crabs


egg handroll, and behind it you can vaguely see some raw beef


Clockwise from left, we have scallop cheese gratin, salmon, unagi and stir-fried broccoli


One of the specialties - paper steamboat - kaminabe - when you have selected the one that you want, the waiter/waitress will then light up this burner thingy (which resembles our Bunsen burners back in school labs) and voila - your paper steamboat is starting to be on the boil!


Half eaten fruit cocktail salad


Fish chowder which didn't taste as good as the rest of the food


Vegetable tempura with Japanese curry


Dessert galore!


For dessert, we had an assortment of tarts


And Sze-lyn never leaves Kuishin-bo without its green tea and vanilla ice cream...


There were actually a lot more cooked food, such as pan fried salmon, miso soup, various types of chicken dishes, beef dishes, fried noodles, rice, deep fried stuff, salads, etc.

Needless to say, this remains one of our favourite restaurants in Singapore :)