Tea break at Sushi Tei

This is a belated entry due to the Chinese New Year festive season so postponed writing it till now.

My friends invited me to join their last min shopping for new year clothes on the Friday just before the lunar new year. We spend quite a lot of time at the malls in the area.

Therefore we decided there is a need to take a break from all the standing so decided to have something to snack on. As Ngee Ann city is so big, there are a lot of variety of eateries in the building itself. We took a while before deciding to have tea at Sushi Tei which has been located there for quite some time and my frens have quite a high opinion on the food served there.

For myself, it was the first time to visit Sushi Tei for a meal as usually if taking about Jap food, I usually eat at Sakae Sushi or Genki Sushi. ( cheaper and more accessible) I heard from my frens that the standard of Sushi is of very high standard when compared to the other two places I been before.

We decided that each of us will order based on what we prefer to have. For myself, I decided to try their grilled squid as well as the salmon sushi and salmon belly sushi.

The above is the grilled squid. The texture of the squid was well maintained and the squid maintain its moisture so that it does not felt like you are eating rubber. Overall it was quite well prepared.

The above pictures is showing the salmon and salmon belly sushi. If you look at the above pictures it is observable that the salmon that was used for the two different type of sushi is noticeably different. The one on the right of the picture has a layer of fat and that is the salmon belly.

With regard to the sushi, the first impression was quite good as when I picked up the sushi, the rice ball did not break up which is a good sign that the sushi is well made. This is what one of my fren told me previously.

For the taste aspect, both were quite good as the salmon was very smooth and the rice was not too dry.

My fren had the above which is the salmon sashimi and a beef dish where the slice of beef is used to wrap around the Japanese mushroom. He mentioned that the sashimi was excellent and the beef was also quite good. He commented that the sauce complemented well with the tender beef and the Japanese mushroom helped to enhance the texture of the dish.

My other fren had the maki. He commented that there were normal nothing outstanding.

He also had the eel and egg sushi. With regard to this dish, he said that it was better than the maki and the eel meat that was used was substantial unlike some places where the quantity of eel meat is much less.

The above is the soft shell crab handroll and the seafood handroll. He had a better opinion on the soft shell handroll.

My fren commented that the level of services has dropped a little since the last time he went there. He said the service staff previously was more attentive. I am not able to make any comment on this as this is the first time I been to here. My only observation is that there seem to be quite a large proportion of teenagers as the service staffs which is a bit unusual when in general for more high end establishment, the service staffs in general are a bit older. This point may be just a coincidence or it so happen that day the services dropped below its usual high standard.