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Ate It & Rate It | MAY 22

A SOR neighbourhood eatery, Japanese home-cooking and some Japanese favourites in Singapore.

Ate It & Rate It | MAY 22
Hinata Cafe's brunch set

Ate It & Rate It is our curated guide of monthly favourites - enough for you discover and try a handful of new eateries every month.

This edition features some of our favourite eats in Singapore. Unsurprisingly, we have lots of Japanese food this month!

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Be sure to click on the articles linked for more detail.

Our favourites from May 2022 are:

Little Gan's
Hinata
Tsuta (Singapore)
Pipes (Singapore)

Happy reading and eating! 🥰

Little Gan's

A south of the river hidden gem

A cozy neighbourhood eatery with 20 dining room seats. The chefs here don't mess around. Between them they draw their experience from Culinary Institute of America (where Anthony Bourdain and many others attended), Le Cordon Bleu, Nobu, fleuer, Higher Ground, Calia and more to serve up some delicious dishes.

Salmon sashimi diced on a plate arranged in a circle with crisps on the side
🐟 Salmon $16 pickled radish, carrot, plum dressing
Beef tartare served on a black and bronze plate
🐮 Beef Tartare $19 - capers, conichorns, crostini
Little Gan’s
A cozy neighbourhood eatery serving up expertly executed Modern Australian fare.
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Hinata Cafe

A sunny place

Hinata is a Japanese brunch cafe in Fremantle specialising in home-style cooking. They opened up shop at Fibonacci Centre earlier this year, and previously operated as a pop-up. You'll be hard pressed to find this type of this elsewhere in Perth!

Overhead shot of a plate with many different smaller dishes in smaller bowls
🍱 HINATA Brunch Set (May 2022) $26 - miso braised ginger mackerel, sweet potato salad, zucchini tempura, carrot shirishiri (carrot and egg stir fry, walnut and miso sauce), brown rice, soy milk miso soup & house made pickles
Overhead shot of a plate with many different smaller dishes in smaller bowls
🍱 HINATA Brunch Set (February 2022) $26 - grilled miso glazed salmon, cauliflower curried saute, nimono (lotus roots, tofu & shiitake mushroom), brown rice, pickled vegetable and miso soup
Hinata Cafe
A boho styled Japanese cafe serving up Japanese home style cooking and Japanese favourites on the weekend, with a number of vegetarian and gluten free options.
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Tsuta (Singapore)

Slurp loudly

Despite being the land of hawker food, our first meal in Singapore set the bar high for Japanese food. Tsuta serves up interesting bowls of ramen, far from the normal broth you find. You'll find lots of ingredients not commonly associated with ramen. Things like black olive, sour tream, tomato paste, balsamic and even si chuan pepper.

Top down shop of a bowl of soy ramen with egg and a pair of chopsticks rested on-top
✨ Premium Char Siu Truffle Shoyu Soba Light $13.8++ Regular $18.8++ - premium Kurobuta loin, Iberico belly, balsamic truffle sauce, spring onion, bamboo shoot, fig compote
Top down shop of a bowl of crab ramen with a Tsuta branded napkin on the side
🦀 Crab Soba with Premium Char Siu & Crab Shell $23.8++ - Premium Kurobuta Loin & Iberico Belly, Crab Meat in Tomato Paste, Leek, Sour Cream, Japanese Snow Crab served in Crab Shell
Tsuta (Singapore)
The world’s first Michelin star ramen chain where you’ll find unique flavoured broths like truffle shio, truffle shoyu and Japanese snow crab.
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Pipes (Singapore)

This is a sando

Thick, fluffy, Japanese sando served by the same folks that (once) brought us HATTENDO. Be sure not to over order like we did! You'll also be able to pick up some of HATTENDO's famous cream puffs in store as well.

PIPES by HATTENDO (Singapore)
A cafe serving up Japanese fusion sando, HATTENDO’s signature cream buns and in-house roasted coffee.
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