WEEKLY DIGEST 110 | 14 JUNE 2024

This weekend we'll be hitting up Rojiura Curry Samurai (fun fact - we actually visited one of their Sapporo branches earlier this year) and Ramen Keisuke as Paige has been craving tonkotsu ramen recently. We'll fill up the rest of our unplanned meals as we go.

If you haven't been to neither, check out our articles on them! Both make for great winter warmers.

Rojiura Curry Samurai (Perth)

Perth’s first dedicated store serving up highly customisable (and vegan friendly) Hokkaido soup curry with at minimum, 11 kinds of vegetables.

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Ramen Keisuke Tonkotsu King (Perth)

A specialty ramen store in the Perth CBD which exclusively serves up thick and rich tonkotsu ramen.

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Late week we ate:

Sumiya Gin
Kimbap Heaven
Uncle 6 Nanyang Hawker
Woodpeckers

This week, with exception of the cover photo here, I shot everything on my Sony a7iii and the OG Tamron 28-75mm f2.8.

Visit count

Note travel related eats haven't been added in yet. There will be a handful to add from Singapore and we'll add a select few from Japan.

As of 14 June 2024:

First time visits: Kimbap Heaven, Uncle 6 Nanyang Hawker Cuisine & Woodpeckers (3)
Revisits: Sumiya Gin (1)

Total first time visits: 19+3=22
Total revisits: 48+1=49 Total visits this year: 22+49=71

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‌‌The Best Thing We Ate ⭐️

Sumiya Gin

It should come as no surprise that our meal at Sumiya Gin wins the best thing we ate last week. If you tuned in last week, you'd know that we dined in and tried their $69.9 set menu. Our visit was with a couple friends - one of which recently celebrated a milestone birthday.

So, as all good friends do - I decided to put down "birthday" in booking notes when I booked (I did this with the knowledge that the folks here sing you happy bday). Lets just say, all of us had fun watching my friend get embarrassed when the dessert came out 😂 (excluding the birthday boy, of course).

Shoutout to the Sumiya Gin team for the lovely hospitality. おもてなしをありがとうございました！

Food wise (even for a bigger eater like me), it was a reasonable amount (most people I think should be satisfied). All cuts of meat were great. When we thought we were done with the wagyu, the staff brought out the final soy marinated wagyu 😅.

Thinking out loud - I think the $70 ish price point is great for smaller groups, where you might not necessarily be able to order many things to share due to oh so precious stomach capacity. Larger groups might see similar value going a la carte instead of this set menu.

I'll post about this in depth at a later point, but we got something like this (if I'm recalling correctly) as part of the set menu:

• Ox tongue, chicken and pork belly
• Prawn and squid
• Tofu and cabbage salad
• Miso soup and rice
• Edamame and kimchi
• Karaage and takoyaki
• Wagyu (salt and pepper)
• Wagyu (soy)

A pretty reasonable spread!

What We Ate 🍴

Kimbap Heaven

As expected, the kimbap at Kimbap Heaven was good! They've also got other Korean street food like mandu and fried chicken.

Check out Paige's post over on Instagram for more.

Uncle 6 Nanyang Hawker

Uncle 6 Nanyang Hawker is the reincarnation of 2020 Street Eats meets Sarawak Hawker (Sarawak Hawker was their OG store before transitioning to Tori Tori). The store is next to Utopia / Subway, taking what previously was Momo Dessert Cafe (you will be dearly missed) which was around for just under two years. It seems the concept here changes every two years.. 🧐

The interior of the store largely remains the same, with the exception of the floral mural in the photo. Staff are the same as well.

I opted for the braised beef brisket rice. The fatty and tender braised beef brisket rice satisfied my beef brisket cravings.

A friend got their Hainan chicken rice which was passable. We both agreed that Bull Creek Hawker down the road, serves up a better chicken rice, but this one wasn't bad per se. Specifically, we did find our serve of rice to be on the wetter side as we prefer a drier rice.

Pricing on their menu is pretty reasonable.

Woodpeckers

Ending the week we have Woodpeckers. For some time, both Paige and I have wondered what the pizzas here were like. We heard some mixed reviews. Some reviews, in local FB pages weren't so great, but we also heard friends of ours say otherwise.

So we decided to drop in with some friends (who live within walking distance) to check it out. The pizzas were great! The dough was nice and thin and it passes the crust test - Paige's litmus test on whether "the crust is worth the stomach space that could used to eat other things". Only a handful of pizza places pass this test.

Admittedly, we do find these pizzas a little bit more expensive for a suburban pizza, though I'm sure it reflects the location of the store and their associated overheads.

For us, we wouldn't hesitate to go back if we were craving Naples style pizza, within a 10 minute drive. Otherwise, we'd probably drive 18 mins each way to grab sourdough pizzas from Slow Dough (these travel great).