{"id":2613,"date":"2015-09-14T23:13:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2019-02-03T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T07:36:50","slug":"boruto-for-a-sake-fix-with-decent-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/14\/boruto-for-a-sake-fix-with-decent-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Boruto – For a Sake Fix with Decent Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friends and I wanted to have a decent meal but nothing too long and too precious so we dropped in on Boruto for good sake based drinks and decent bites. This izakaya is about its sake drinks, homemade umeshu and largely uncomplicated\u00a0tapas. Enjoyable\u00a0dishes include its nicely grilled spare rib, stuffed chicken wing and deep fried pork belly. My main gripe is probably its downstairs seating\u00a0which felt\u00a0bit too spartan.<\/p>\n

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Entrance to Boruto on South Bridge Road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The izakaya \/ tapas bar – the decor feels a bit too spartan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boruto is the sister restaurant of Tamashii Robataya (see blog<\/a>) so I had high expectations for the food. Between the two, Tamashii is probably still better for food. However, Boruto is relatively more reasonable and hence, a decent place if you want to have some nice drinks and share some small plates of food. This is very much an izakaya – so good Japanese pub grub.<\/p>\n

Our dinner started with a load of drinks: umeshu, a sake based cocktail, and sake. All this to accompany our starting dishes of fried squid tentacles, fried burdock root and seared\u00a0saga beef.<\/p>\n

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Fried squid (aka calamari) with a nice glass of umeshu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fried burdock root<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lightly charred beef<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before I go on with the food pictures, Boruto has a nice sake bar area upstairs which I think has a cozier ambiance. Jars of homemade umeshu sit in fridges here. When I saw this I definitely wanted a glass – I’m partial to the sweet-sour taste of plum that I think is really nice as a liquor. One of Boruto’s more unique features is its vault that houses a collection of fine sake.<\/p>\n

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Jars of homemade umeshu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The bar area upstairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Back to the food. The following are probably the two items that I thought fell short of the rest of our meal.\u00a0The platter of fried\u00a0chicken skin, cartilage and giblets was a bit underwhelming, mainly because I think I prefer these to be done yakitori style. The main disappointment to me\u00a0was the crab sausage which is served in a reduced crab bisque\u00a0but ended up a bit too fishy for most of out tastes to really rave over.<\/p>\n

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Chicken skin, giblets, and cartilage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Crab sausage was a bit too fishy for us<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The next series of dishes were all enjoyable. One of my favorites for the evening were the chicken wings stuffed with white bait, minced pork and wild vegetables. The deep fried pork belly was also very tasty but one of the main highlights was the marinated grilled spare rib – nicely tender and juicy.<\/p>\n

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Stuffed chicken wings was one of my favorites for the evening<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Avocado and tomato salad – the grilled avocado was a nice touch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another tasty dish is its deep fried pork belly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grilled asparagus with truffle “caviar”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Supearib” – indeed super<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Unagi guacamole – not mind blowing but I thought this dish was decently priced<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My weakness: uni pasta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I would say that the next time I come, I’m going to have the uni (sea urchin) pasta all for myself. But since my weakness is uni, I’ve yet to come across a uni pasta that I don’t like.<\/p>\n

We tried two desserts – the warabi mochi, which is one of my favorite Japanese desserts; and the poached pear. The warabi mochi is served with lightly jello-ed champagne. This to us was a bit of an odd combination. However, the poached pear with oolong tea accompanied by cherry blossom ice cream was good.<\/p>\n

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Poached pear (at bottom) with cherry blossom ice cream (top) and warabi mochi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boruto has quite an interesting menu and there are some other items that I’d like to try. I wouldn’t say that all the dishes were mind blowing – this isn’t that type of place. The food is not that complex but they do a few items well which encourages me to return to try a few others. That and the umeshu.<\/p>\n

Boruto’s website:\u00a0http:\/\/boruto.com.sg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friends and I wanted to have a decent meal but nothing too long and too precious so we dropped in on Boruto for good sake based drinks and decent bites. This izakaya is about its sake drinks, homemade umeshu and largely uncomplicated\u00a0tapas. Enjoyable\u00a0dishes include its nicely grilled spare rib, stuffed chicken wing and deep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,115,22],"tags":[43,49,98,76],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asiapac","category-singapore","category-singapore-food","tag-featured","tag-izakaya","tag-japanese_food","tag-singapore","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}