Hanabi Japanese Restaurant (Katong Mall)

Location: 112 East Coast Road #01-13/15/18/19 Katong Mall
Telephone Number : +65 6348 6626
Operating Hours: Lunch 1130am to 230pm Dinner 6pm to 10.30pm




RATINGS METER
FOOD : 6.0 out of 10
AMBIENCE : 6.0 out of 10
SERVICE : 7.5 out of 10
PRICING : Lunch $26++ (Adult), $15++(Child) Dinner $30++(Adult), $18++(Child)
OPENING HOURS : Lunch 1130am to 230pm Dinner 6pm to 10.30pm

After calling several Japanese restaurants in town on a Friday evening, it seems that I was out of luck. Most of the reasonably priced restaurants were fully booked. After reading some online recommendation that Hanabi was quite a value-for-money place, we decided to try it out despite it being in the inconvenient Katong mall for us.

There were still many tables available in the restaurant although it was a Friday evening. The overall service of the place was quite good, staff was polite, friendly and efficient. Except that we were "lucky" enough to be sitting next to a very loud group of diners... otherwise dining experience was quite pleasant.

The ala carte buffet menu has an impressive number of 118 items, definitely gave us a little headache on what to eat initially. Thankfully, the portions were mostly very small, allowing us to try as many items as we like. Food was generally ok (with sashimi, sushi, grilled meat, ramens, udons, etc etc.... the list is long), not high-quality food but acceptable.

Stir fried beef

Fried sweet potato with cheese

Grilled chicken wing

Salmon miso soup

Cold soba noodles

Cold yellow wheat noodles

Handrolls (California, Soft crab, Smoked pork)

Chuka Kurage (Marinated Jellyfish)

Salmon Sashimi

Unagi Sushi

Curry Rice with Fried Fish

Grilled Shishamo Fish

Grilled pork belly with shitake mushroom

Miso soup

Quite a value-for-money place to try if you have a pretty good appetite and not a fussy eater.