Our guest writer, Felicia visited Shima restaurant recently and raved about the food here.So when the invite for their Exquisite Winter Menu is here, I got the chance to visit the restaurant this time round. The winter menu is curated by Chef Hoshiba Fumihiko, who has over 40 years of culinary experience.

Kaiseki dining is a traditional multi-course Japanese dining experience. The ingredients used for kaiseki menus are seasonal ingredients and carefully prepared with cooking techniques that bring out the ingredients’ natural flavours. The chef then prepared with 5 fundamental methods of cooking including steamed, simmered, fried, grilled and raw.

Here are the dishes from the Winter Menu:
Appetiser

Beautifully plated seasonal ingredients including bright-orange river prawn, salmon and flavourful octopus served with lilyroot sharp and crisp bamboo shoot from Kagoshima. And taste the delicate ear of rice, with whole rice grains still on it. It is like having mini popcorns.

Steamed Dish

Chawanmushi with Shark’s Fin

Sashimi

We were served with ottoro, the fatty part of the tuna’s belly. It was amazingly fresh and firm fattiness along with the botan ebi from Hokkaido and also ara (shimmered sea bream).

Grilled Dish

Golden grilled lobster with Wakamomo (Peach) and Hajikami (Ginger Root). The peach was a sweet note after the taste of the savoury grilled lobster.

Cooked Food

Red Snapper with Prawn are from Kamazawa were steamed in dashi stock to infuse the seafood with a delicate dashi flavour, complemented with a hint of zest from yuzue and grape blossoms.

Fried Dish

Snow crab served along with mushroom, wildplant and rice paper.

Noodles

Shoudoshima’s Olive Noodles. Shodoshima is known with its fresh olive noodles and we are lucky to get a taste of it. And surprisingly there is no taste traces of the olive flavour though.

Dessert

Fresh fruit and dessert of the day.

The new winter menu features 5 premium sets at affordable pricing starting from S$48.00++ for a 6-course meal and up to S$188.00++. There are also lunch options starting from S$88.00++ and S$138.00++. This menu will be available from now to end March 2018.

Address: Goodwood Park Hotel
22 Scotts Road,
Singapore 228221
Operating Hours: 12:00PM – 2:30PM | 6:00PM-10:30PM (Daily)
Website: http://www.shimarestaurant.com.sg/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShimaRestaurantSingapore/

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