Shinji - an experience that makes you feel its almost sacrilegious to eat at certain sushi place...=p

Shinji by Kanesake (http://shinjibykanesaka.com/raffles/index.html)

Raffles Hotel, 1 Beach Road

#02-20

Singapore 189673

I am a believer! 

I used to question how good can sushi be in Singapore after my experiences in Tokyo and Hokkaido. Didn't believe how divine Otoro (as well as the different types and marbling) can be to the extend it literally melts in your mouth... Never appreciated Uni or Tamago (since i never really like eggs to begin with). 

But hell yeah! I am a believer of them all! Uni was fresh and creamy, no funky weird smell or taste to it... the tamago was excellent! I really can't find a better way to describe it other then to say it gave me the "lemak" feeling. There was no "eggy" taste to it and for a non-egg fan, i was sold. 

I must admit that it comes with a premium price tag but I felt it was totally worth the experience. Forget the big chains of conveyor belt sushi... where the sushi slowly dries up and looks forlorn after a while when no one takes it. Or the thinly slice pieces of unagi that reminds you of shaved honey baked ham and all you can really taste is the rice. Shinji at Raffles Hotel is a small sushi place with the experience Oshino Sushi Chef and his disciples running the show. They serve up the freshest catch and it varies each time you visit the place as the season changes. Despite the price tag and the finesse behind each beautifully crafted pieces of sushi, you certainly do not leave the place feeling unsatisfied and hungry. My dinner experience there left me driving home unable to sit up straight as my waistline grew to even more unflattering inches. I wasn't complaining then... happy belly.

Other noteworthy sushi that i fell in love with was the mackerel (usually i find it fishy) and there is this absolutely sinful "ice cream" of rice, otoro and uni. Give it a shot and you will be amazed. I am simply gushing in this write up.

The pictures you see are a mix of what I had from lunch as well as dinner. Sometimes I like to have my lunch and have Shota san as my sushi chef. Need i say more or even state that its highly recommended in my opinion?