Ippin Cafe Bar {Foodee}

I was invited to check out the Ippin Cafe Bar, Singapore’s first home concept Japanese cafe bar, and had a really great time.

When I first stepped into the restaurant, I fell in love with the way it looked. It really does look like a home!

Well, a home with an attached bar, I suppose?

Appetizers and drinks were served before the main meals.

This nutrient-rich non alcoholic sake relies on Hokuriku rice to impart a natural sweetness and is a popular drink among Japanese ladies for beautiful skin. This was also popular with everyone in the group. It’s my first time to try the drink and it’s delicious and refreshing!

This is an appetiser alcoholic drink that stimulates the appetite and promotes digestion. Another drink that I tried for the first time, I thought it was sweet and light, kind of just like juice, my preference for alcoholic beverages.

Then came the main meals, which I was very excited for because I love Japanese food! They were all sumptuous and tasted like home.

Yakisoba is salty-sweet stir-fried soba noodles with sliced pork belly, carrots, and onions. The Japanese chef says this reminds her of her dad’s home cooking, but it tastes better. I’ve always liked yakisoba instant noodles, but this definitely tastes better than those! The set comes with Kobachi salad and hojicha pudding (a roasted green tea dessert).

This sumptuous chicken and egg on rice was everyone’s favourite. The secret to its great taste – the chicken is boiled in dashi stock. I also really love the soft fluffy Japanese rice. The set comes with miso soup and hojicha pudding.

The oysters are from Hiroshima Prefecture, the most famous area of oysters in Japan. These oysters are raised in a clean ocean so be ready for a clean taste. They are lightly battered so they are very crispy on the outside, which I really appreciated.

The set comes with rice, Hatcho miso soup, Nikujaga pork and potato stew, salad, and hojicha pudding.

This is new in their menu. You can customise your own beef steak with Japanese condiment shakes, either wasabi salt or ponzu sauce. The steak was tender, and I loved eating mine with ponzu sauce, a Japanese sauce made with soy sauce and citrus juice. I also ate it with pickled ginger, and it was a surprisingly yummy combination. I also could not get enough of the fries, which was seasoned with yuzu salt and had the perfect crispness.

These are crunchy peanuts each coated with either one of three different flavours – green tea, strawberry, and coffee. I was startled when I bit into the coffee, it was so strong that I thought I was eating a coffee bean! The strawberry was my favourite, so sweet and yummy.

You can buy all their ingredients and drinks they use and bring them home to use them in your own cooking. That’s what’s in all those shelves.

They also had all sorts of Japanese beer, but since I’m not a beer fan, I can’t comment on that. One of the guys at the event, Alex, said that he had been there before, at night, and he loved the sake and it has a completely different vibe at night and worth going back for. I just might do that sometime.

I really like its vibe during the day though – very relaxing and comfortable, just like home.

IPPIN CAFE BAR
18 Mohamed Sultan Road
T: 6733 4794
Mon to Sat 11am to 11pm
Instagram: @IPPINCAFEBAR
NETT price and free wifi
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Disclosure: I received the featured products for free. All opinions are entirely my own.