Sakeshi has thick-cut salmon “noodles” at Beauty World
There’s a new Japanese eatery that’s been turning heads for a curious noodle dish. On the surface, it looks as though the “noodles”, if you can call them that, are entirely made up of thick-cut salmon sashimi. That eatery is Sakeshi – The Salmon House, a three-minute walk from Beauty World MRT Station.
The dish in question, Waterfall Salmon Yuzu Soba ($50.80+), actually features some cold noodles in a yuzu-forward broth, with some salmon sashimi already serving as a topping.
It’s just that you also get a bowl of the salmon noodles balanced on a pair of chopsticks, and the point is to combine the two, creating a dish that’s both noodle and salmon at the same time.
Salmon fans may see this as the perfect dish, while sceptics look at this and see a Frankenstein monster. But how does it actually taste?
Well, the salmon was… decent enough. It’s not the freshest sashimi, as there was some fishy odour present. However, we believe many will appreciate the thickness and richness of each “strand.” And because you’re soaking it in that broth, the tangy flavour of yuzu will cover up some of that funk.
The rest of the bowl, consisting of the cold noodles and thin-cut sashimi, was so heavily infused with yuzu flavour that a colleague said: “All I can taste is yuzu”. That’s not necessarily a bad thing if you’re a fan of the citrus fruit, but for some, it came across as rather one-dimensional.
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The Waterfall Salmon Yuzu Soba is likely to divide opinion: this writer wasn’t a fan, while the aforementioned colleague enjoyed it. Its high price point is certainly daunting, but if you really, really love salmon sashimi, we say go for it.
Another dish worth checking out is the Sakeshi Salmon Collagen Soup ($14.80+), made by slow-simmering salmon bones and other ingredients for six hours.
The soup itself comes with salmon chunks, seaweed, mushrooms, and lots of daikon. We found it to be a rich, hearty soup, filled with umami and the mild sweetness of daikon. Salmon fans should enjoy this dish as well, along with the many other salmon-themed dishes on the menu.
For loaded kaisendon bowls with XXL salmon in Holland Village, read our Tsukiji Kaisendon review. For Japanese-style cai png with mentaiko salmon, read our Subarashii Super Don coverage.
Address: 17 Lorong Kilat, #01-05, Singapore 598139
Opening hours: Tue-Sun 11:30am to 10pm
Tel: 8977 8676
Website
Sakeshi is not halal-certified.
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Photos taken by Nivian Chiang.
This was a media tasting at Sakeshi.
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