Being a fan of steamboat cuisines, I just had to check out
Danro Japanese Hot Pot Buffet. Danro Japanese Hot Pot Buffet opened by Ministry of Food (MOF). Although Japanese hot pot buffet is not new in Singapore,
Danro is the first to offer eight broths (soup base) from different regions of Japan.
The prices range from $17.90++ for weekday lunch to $25.90++ for weekend dinner (for adults).
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| Left to right: Chicken & Milk Broth, Chicken Spicy Broth |
Customers can choose up to 2 different soup base in 1 pot. We chose the
Chicken & Milk Broth from Asuka Nabe and
Chicken Spicy Broth from Danro Nabe. Now's the best time to taste the original taste of the soup as the refills would dilute your soup base (will explain more on that further down the post).
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| Handmade Kiritanpo |
Danro Japanese Hot Pot comes with handmade
Kiritanpo. However, this is limited to one per person. The Kiritanpo, a specialty dish of Akita Prefecture is essentially grilled rice skewer. Japanese cooked rice are pounded until they are mashed before being hand formed into cylinders around wooden skewers. They are then lightly brushed with special sweet sauce or miso for flavour before being toasted over an open fire. The
Kiritanpo can either be eaten on its own or dipped into the hot pot.
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| Soup Refill Station |
There was a Soup Refill Station, an innovative way to cut down on the manpower and increase productivity. There were small pots of Chicken or Wafu soup in it which customers could get anytime. These soup were a 'one soup fits all solution'. Since both our soup were chicken broths, we had to use the chicken soup refill. Even when e were to ask a serving for a refill, they used just chicken soup for both our soup bases. The problem with this was that it resulted in a diluted and not as fragrant soup base compared to when we just started.
Hence, our Chicken & Milk Broth became less milky and less fragrant while our Chicken Spicy Broth became less spicy. In addition, there was no attempt to stock up the soup refill station. Midway into our meals, there were no more pots of soup at that station as the were too few staff and these staff were all busy clearing the tables.
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| Condiments and sauce dips |
A wide variety of condiments and sauce dips.
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| Onsen Egg |
The Japanese
Onsen Egg in light soy sauce was very well executed. Not only did it looked good, it also tasted good too. I liked it so much that I went for an additional helping of it.
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| Left to right: Japanese potato salad, Somen with soba sauce |
The
Japanese potato salad and
Somen with soba sauce were quite decent too.
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| Sushi |
There's a wide variety of food available ranging from Sushi, Bak Kut Teh, Japanese Yong Tau Foo, Cooked food and the typical steamboat ingredients such as corn, meat, seafood, vegetables.
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| Left to right: Bak Kut Teh, Japanese Yong Tau Foo |
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| Left to right: Homemade Hot Dishes and Vegetables |
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| Left to right: Seafood, shabu shabu beef and pork slices |
The seafood corner was just average. The clams and prawns were not fresh especially the latter which stuck to its shell and meat was not firm. The
shabu shabu beef and pork slices fared much better. We ate so many plates of it.
It was easy to control the temperature of the hot pot with the electric induction cooker.
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| Desserts and cakes |
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| Left to right: Drinks, Soft Serve Ice cream |
The DIY
Soft Serve Ice Cream was fantastic. Its the same as what you get when you order ice cream dishes in MOF. Even though we were very full, we still went for this and it was
oh just so shiok! There's always room for dessert!
Although there were hits and misses (seafood was not fresh, one size fits all soup for refills, service), Danro Japanese Hot Pot Buffet is really value for money! I certainly enjoyed most of the food here.
It was easy to control the temperature of the hot pot with the electric induction cooker.
I haven't seen anything like this hot pot especially the chicken milk broth and spicy one too. The spread is so huge and its really fabulous.
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