www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

There are good food and there are good food. Mee pok tah or dry noodles are nice food but may not be that good especially if you have them once too often.  You will also find Japanese food everywhere these days - at the market food stalls, hawker centres, restaurants and even very established ones with their chains and all. You will find that Japanese food here and over in Japan itself can be vastly different and not as authentic.  Its like the Japanese loving our chicken rice, laksa and bak kut teh here and then we go to Japan to eat their chicken rice, laksa and bak kut teh. So I came to Ginza Kuroson at Riverside View, Robertson Walk. The first thing that catch your attention is that most of their customers are Japanese so you know the food is authentic. They placed a long shelf at the counter with ice cold green tea and all kinds of fish buried in ice. Those who love cockles would surely recognise these huge ones that make great sashimi. There were ...

Lunch can sometimes be difficult depending on where you work and what are the kind of food available. Places can get over crowded, queues can be long and this becomes worse when it is raining or the weather too hot and humid. Not only that, eating any kind of food also meant that one can get sluggish after lunch. A lousy feeling if I may say it. So a Japanese colleague brought a customer and me to this place. Along the journey they were speaking in Japanese and all I heard was @#$!&!@#Ginza !@#$%&!Kuroson. When I got there, I saw it "Ginza Kuroson". That's it! The green tea here is served cold and fabulous. Really healthy. They placed jugs of cold green tea in trays of ice as you can see in the background. I was told that during dinner, these trays of ice would be where they display all the fish. You can then literally name them or see some of what you are going to eat. Green and purple leafy are a great start with Japanese vinegar or sauce. I ...