KOH GRILL & SUSHI BAR

Location: Wisma Atria 4th floor
How to get there: Orchard Road Mrt
Opening hours: 1130am - 2230pm daily
Contact Number: 9180 3805

Hi all!! How have you been doing, it has been almost 2 weeks since our last review!!! It's been a rather busy 2 weeks for May&FJ as we're starting our revision lectures in school! Whew! Together with the recent erratic weather, we're all getting sick! Take care of your health yea!!! Gotta be healthy till the end of exams!

Anyways, May&FJ visited Koh Grill & Sushi Bar today! We got to know it through a friend's introduction. He said that this is one place we SHOULD visit for great Japanese food, and mind you, we were absolutely not disappointed with it! We were there during dinner hours and the queue was so so so LONG! Thank god we've made a reservation or we'd be standing till we die of hunger! We gotta say that the place is uber pack as they try to squeeze you in any way possible. So we got seats far end of the table corners! (kinda hard to catch the server's attention)

But, what's a little bit of uncomfortable-ness hindering good food? We had half a plate of Shiok Maki ($9), half a plate of Pitan Maki ($9), a plate of Salmon Sashimi ($8), a set of Soft Shell Crab ($7) and a glass of Ice Japanese Tea ($1.50). Our bill came up to about $36.90. They have a very vast menu which offers you a huge variety of sushi and grill! I have included the sushi menu for you reference! Here's a first hand warning: there are a lot of pages, scroll down if you ain't that interested in the menu!

Shiok Maki:

• Aburi Salmon, Charcoal Grilled Eel, Ebi Roe and Avocado topped with their special salted egg sauce makes the whole eating experience an awesome one! There is no better name for this dish; SHIOK!
• The Ebi Roe is really juicy! Every burst in your mouth is absolutely heavenly!
• However, we couldn't really taste the salted egg until we looked for it. It's kinda overpowered by the grilled eel; the grilled taste is rather strong
• But overall, we say that this is good and a MUST to order!
• They have a 2nd Generation Shiok Maki which consists of: Crispy Prawn wrapped with Aburi Salmon. (This sounds good too! But we've yet to try it~)

Pitan Maki:

• Consists of Swordfish and Salmon Sashimi, and Avocado. Together with the Pitan sauce, we've gotta say this is love. Even for people like me who don't really enjoy Pitan have to put my hands down on this. GOOD.
• May absolutely loves the Pitan sauce!
• It's a very good combination!
• I gotta say that the Swordfish was very Q! Love it!

Salmon Sashimi:

• There are 5 pieces of fresh and thick slices of sashimi. (My dear friend May was VERY happy. I stress, VERY)
• It's smooth~~~~
• But it would be nicer if it'd be slightly colder.

Soft Shell Crab:

• There are 3 pieces of Soft Shell Crab. We felt that it was kinda little, but for the price, guess it's kinda reasonable.
• It tastes best when you drizzle it with lemon and dip it with the mayo provided! Awesome!

Advantages:

• We felt that the prices were rather reasonable.
• Also, they give you a flexibility of order the quantities of Maki. You can choose to half it to try a variety. But this only applies to certain types of Maki, you have to check with the staff there.
• For a full house, the amount of time food takes to come is rather reasonable. 
• They only charge you GST, no service charge. (Wells, all for the better since the service ain't much)

Disadvantages:

• It was kinda squeeze for us as the place is PACKED.
• They are understaffed. You have only about 3 serving staffs at dinner hours to clear tables, take repeating orders, man the counter and do cashiering. This was mainly the reason why it was kinda hard to catch their attention to make orders.

Note:

• If you wish to make a reservation, just TEXT that number provided. State your name, date of reservation, time of reservation and the number of people arriving. They will take some time to reply you, it's afterall human, but they will definitely get back to you. (We would suggest that you make reservations at least a day before just in case.)
• They only accept credit cards if you spend $30 or more.

Overall, we would say that it's worth the squeeze at Koh Grill & Sushi Bar! May&FJ would definitely make repeat purchase (throwing in some marketing terms here, gotta revise my work) here! So if you're near Orchard, this is one food place you should NEVER miss!

On a side note, May and I had dessert after that too! We had an Oreo Layered Cake from Patisserie at ION food hall. It's good!!! The chocolate layer has a slight bitter taste and the cream provides the sweetness. You can say that this concluded our dinner in a good note! Here's a picture!

There are other flavors like: Matcha, Cappuccino and Original. Prices range from: $6.50 for a slice and $12 for two slices! Be sure to check this out when you're in town too!

Till next time lovelies!

<3 May&FJ




***Update on 19/12/2013

Hi all:) This is the season to be jolly for Christmas is coming in 6 days!!!! I really love Christmas; to be exact I love any season that allows me receive gifts.

I have visited Koh Grill's recently and tried some new stuffs with a couple of my primary school mates last week. So I'll update you peeps on the stuffs that we've tried that wasn't included in the first post^^

Cold Soba ($7):

• The dip sauce was good, it's good that it's chilled.
• The noodles are chewy.
• Overall, it is not bad; worth the try.

Shiok Maki Second Generation ($16.80):

• There were 8 pieces of it in total.
• What's different from Shiok Maki First Generation? Instead of having eel, ebi tempura is used instead. They have also included this green chewy vegetables (which I have no idea what they are).
• Overall, it's no bad. However, I still feel that the first generation is better.

Unagi Maki ($10):

• The eel was nicely grilled. There's this slightly charred taste that was awesome.
• The cucumber provided a fresh taste to the dish.
• The unagi sauce drizzled was slightly sweet.
• However, the whole dish was rather dry which made my friend rather disappointed with it for he was actually quite looking forward to the dish.

My trip down to Koh Grill this time round had me realizing that they charge their mains cheaper than their Maki. (Actually a friend of mine pointed it out to me.) On a side note, many people have ordered their curry rice and they fried noodles. It's either it was super good or it was just affordable.

The next trip down, I would definitely give it a try and let you peeps know^^

<3 FJ