WEEKLY DIGEST 131 | 3 JAN 2025
Our last week of eating in 2024.
Happy new year everyone! Thanks for tuning into our newsletter over the past year.
This week we have:
Omakase Haku
Phoever
Charim
On Fire Charcoal Chicken (Harisdale)
Two Hands Noodle Store
H&C Urban Winery
Tiger Baekban
Two Slices Sandwich Bar
Eats from Singapore (3)
Eats from Japan (30)
Shot on Ricoh GR IIIx and Sony a7iii with Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 (G1). Edited with Lightroom Classic.
| Ricoh GR IIIx | Sony a7iii with Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 (G1) |
|---|---|
| Phoever | Omakase Haku |
| On Fire Charcoal Chicken | Charim |
| Two Hands Noodle Shop | |
| Kuld Creamery | |
| Tiger Baekban | |
| Two Slices Sandwich Bar |
Visit count
It's taken me a year count up all the places we went to in Singapore and Japan 😆.
We checked out 3 new places in Singapore (Birds of Paradise, Cicheti and Miamiam). While in Japan, we documented around 30 places in Japan across the 10 or so cities we visited.
If there's appetite (pun totally intended) from you guys to hear more about these places, I'll happily put them into a list 🫡.
As of 3 January 2025, the total metrics for 2024 are as follows:
| Metric | Count | Locations |
|---|---|---|
| First Time Visits | 35 | Charim H&C Urban Winery 3 places in Singapore 30 places in Japan |
| Revisits | 7 | Omakase Haku Phoever On Fire Charcoal Chicken Two Hands Noodle Shop Kuld Creamery Tiger Baekban Two Slices Sandwich Bar |
| Total First Time Visits | 119 | 84 (previous) + 35 (new: Singapore & Japan) |
| Total Revisits | 121 | 114 (previous) + 7 (new) |
| Total Visits This Year | 240 | 119 (first time) + 121 (revisits) |
ICYMI 📱
If you have any new fantastic food finds, we'd love for you to let us know via DM or email. If you have different opinions to us on food, that's fine - let us know too! We love to chat all things food.
Eddy & Paige
The Best Thing We Ate ⭐️
Omakase Haku
📍 Near Vic Park
We had our fifth visit to Omakase Haku a couple weeks back which was yet another delicious visit.
The favourites were the snow crab dishes.
We ended on a caramel ice-cream paired with extra virgin olive oil and caviar. A great combo!
What We Ate 🍴
Phoever
📍 280 Bannister Rd, Canning Vale
Lunch on the day after Omakase Haku was something a lot more affordable.
Charim
📍 Shop 7/375 William St, Perth WA 6003
Charim is a new Korean restaurant located towards the Brisbane St side of Northbridge. The restaurant itself is a "gisa sikdang" - a taxi drivers style of restaurant.
Uncle ChatGPT says this:
For those ever so inclined, you can read more about gisa sikdang below.
Jeongyeong Yeo
The menu here is petite and we did find it a little on the pricier side for the serving sizes. Unfortunately the proteins for both our dishes were a little overcooked and a tad sweet for our liking.
On Fire Charcoal Chicken
📍 Shop 24/120 Yellowwood Ave, Harrisdale WA 6112
On Fire Charcoal Chicken has opened up a second store in Harrisdale (same shopping centre as where Once For All is). Flavour wise, everything is consistent with their Como branch. The Harrisdale branch also much better suited for dining in too. On Fire Charcoal Chicken still remains as our pick for charcoal chicken in Perth.
Two Hands Noodle Store
📍 4/2 Downey Dr, Como WA 6152
Old trusty Two Hands Noodle Store. Not pictured - the char siew bao I also ordered.
H&C Urban Winery
📍 181 High St, Fremantle WA 6160
H&C Urban Winery's cheeseburger was one of the more memorable and delicious cheeseburgers I've had in 2024. Visited as part of my friend's bucks party.
Beautiful restaurant was well!
Kuld Creamery
📍 11 Essex St, Fremantle WA 6160
Thank you to Marv for comping a scoop of ice-cream! The side windows outside the store made for some nice and soft, diffused lighting. Kuld Creamery is one of the few places which make their own cones too. Also dropped in as part of my friend's bucks.
Tiger Baekban
📍 10/113 Collins Rd, Willetton WA 6155
Yukgaejang $29 - hearty spicy beef soup made with shredded beef, lots of scallions and other veggies
Our second visit to the nearby Tiger Baekban. Yukgaejang was yum.
Two Slices Sandwich Bar
📍 2/23-27 Scarborough Beach Rd, Scarborough WA 6019
Our last meal out in 2024 was at Two Slices Sandwich Bar. We opted for the lighter Mr. Pistachio before finishing on the Chopped Cheese. Sandwich wise, we think Mortadeli in Nedlands gets our vote for "favourite sandwich bar" in Perth, but we appreciate the more contemporary offerings at Two Slices Sandwich Bar.
Not pictured - their trending pistachio cream latte. We ordered the smaller $6 portion by mistake and found it was more than enough for both of us to share. It had a pistachio-y, almost pandan like taste which did become pretty rich quickly. Probably not something we'd get again, so we're glad we didn't get the full size pistachio cream latte ($12).
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