Exploring the food options at Great World Mall with all you can eat Japanese BBQ and a Michelin Star Chinese Restaurant: Restaurants I went to: Tajimaya Yakiniku @ Great World City Putien
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I've been trying to make my way through all the food centers and malls here in singapore because every single location
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Hey guys, it's mike jen starting the food day today here at the great world mall
I've been here once before to try out the michelin star ramen
I didn't realize there was an all-you-can-eat japanese wagyu buffet here as well
I'm, so excited for that. Just talking about it thinking about it my mouth's already watering
Fortunately, they don't open for another 30 minutes, but there is a food court right next door and I saw this place
Petaling street famous clay pot chicken rice. Let's get a pre-lunch lunch
Here it is
Fresh clay pot rice with chicken sausage. I think some salted fish in here as well. This thing smells freaking
Incredible. Yeah, a little lap chan chicken
Yeah, salted fish down here as well sauce all over the rice. The rice was sizzling when this thing came to my table
Look at this give it a nice mix make sure there's rice sticking
To the side of the clay pot so it becomes nice and crispy
Oh look at this rice becoming all
Saturated with the sauce with the meats mixed in this clay pot rice is smelling fantastic
It tastes okay, not bad definitely doesn't taste as good as it smells I mean the rice is fragrant
I feel like the sweet soy sauce doesn't give it as much flavor as I thought it would have
The chicken is very nice super tender biggest problem with it is that there's no crispy
Rice wall the rice is definitely not being crispified by the side of the clay pot
Which is really the essence of this dish lap chan is obviously delicious the salted fish gives this rice a nice flavor
Like I mentioned chicken is very good. Very tender
And that hot sauce absolutely burns
I think the meats in the hot sauce definitely makes up for the rice
But overall for 550 singapore dollars not a bad breakfast here. We are at tajimaya yakiniku. This is a
Charcoal all you can eat wagyu buffet 59 singapore dollars
So maybe around 45 us tons of stuff on this menu
There's wagyu short ribs chuck ox tongue the wagyu here is australian wagyu
Which is fine australian wagyu is amazing and their rating scale six out of seven, which that's gonna be pretty marble
There's also seafood from salmon to swordfish to scallops tiger prawns sashimi sushi
There's truffle edamame hot appetizers like takoyaki
Avocado prawn fried rice soup and desserts. Okay. I think the time limit is
100 minutes. Let's start ordering right away and you order everything on your phone, which is great
This way you don't have to flag any servers down to try to put your orders in australian wagyu chukai. Yes
Australian wagyu short ribs. Yes wagyu oyster blade wagyu short plate. Can you order as many as you want?
So we don't have to just order three at a time
Nice, that's great. That's great. Yes kimchi us beef rib fingers garlic miso lamb shoulders ox tongue
All meat barbecues you gotta get some palate cleanser so some salad or something outside real charcoal makes such a difference
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
One two, three, four, five six seven plates of meat two plates of seafood one place of vegetable hot appetizer
Salad and sashimi. Let's try the hot foods first. This is the fried scallops. It's definitely very oily
This is screaming for some chili
My chili is really sweet, this is a fried avocado ball
This is actually pretty darn good creamy avocado inside. The shell is very nice
Very crispy. I like that better than the scallops and finally
Hot fish
This is actually really really good outer shell is nice and crispy fish is tender. It's flaky with some tartar sauce. It'd be even better
That's not a bad tasting fish nugget
Okay, let's cook we're gonna start with the chuckeye roll and the ox tongue the chuckeye roll on one side is
Extremely marbled and the ox tongue is just one of my all-time favorite cuts dunk it in the chili sauce a little
That is so so tender. I mean I knew this thing was marbled
But look at this you can see
the river
Of marbling and fat coursing through this thin slice of meat
As you chew you feel
That meat separate still giving you amazing beefy flavor. Wow. It just dissolves on your tongue. Not everybody loves tongue
I love it
It's definitely one of the cheerier cuts
But as you chew the fat on the tongue renders and all the great flavors of that cut start leaking out everywhere
And with that cut I could really taste the smokiness of the charcoal next meats on the grill
We have the australian lamb shoulder and the short plate is around the rib areas
It's kind of one of the leaner of the fattier cuts and the plate is gonna be a little tougher meat
So you don't want to cook this for too long. I'm just giving it about 30 seconds on each side
One thing I do want to say I wish there was a some different dipping sauce here spicy dipping sauce a little sweet
Otherwise, you're just dipping in a soy sauce
Yeah, one's a sweet soy sauce. One's a regular soy sauce. So two of the three different sauces are sweet
I would have really liked something just pure spicy or just salt and pepper
You have any other dipping sauce besides this you have that salt and pepper. Do you have that? Yeah, you'll get some salt and pepper
Thank you
That's definitely a tougher cut but if you don't cook it long it gives off a really nice beefy flavor
It still remains very tender as you chew the lamb is taking a little bit to cook
So we are going to move on we are going to move on to the oyster blade
Which is one of the most marbled cuts
On the menu. Look at this beauty
Thank you so much
Very coarse salt too, which is perfect for dipping your meat
I'm gonna take the garlic and mushroom out because on the side of the grill, there's just not enough heat right about this
Can't let the sashimi sit there
This is very fresh and delicious also, this is actually a pretty good palate cleanser in between the red meats
And this cut you can cook it a little longer if you want give it a nice char
There's really no scenario where this is not going to be juicy and tender and a little salt and pepper
Is all you need
On this
That is just absolutely 100%
Pure meat butter take one bite. You can just feel
That luxurious fat right across your tongue
There's really nothing like that feeling and one thing I would recommend get the sashimi because the sashimi will come with the wasabi
I mean you could get the wasabi on its own. I'm sure why not get the sashimi to put some of that
Onto the meat a little salt and pepper
If you never put wasabi on your barbecue before trust me do that next time especially for something as fatty as that
Wasabi just completely cuts through the fattiness so you can enjoy the flavor of the meat without feeling greased out
That was a fantastic cut
That is 100% the best cut come here and just load up on that cut
Especially when you sear all the sides of this and trap in all that delicious juice when you sink your teeth into that
pretty much every problem in the world that you have is gonna fade away at least for a few seconds because that flavor that
Texture that juice is going to completely overwhelm your senses and short circuit your brain for a little bit
That's too freaking good. Oh, I still got seafood to try. There's prawns
There's scallops toss the seafood on also truffle edamame
This is very good
This is extremely troubling. Also my potato salad
All the potato salad is so delicious some pickles inside potatoes and carrots
Those are potato salad and pickles all in one
Oh scallops are good
Shrimp is really good. It just took a long time to cook though
It's took about 5-10 minutes to cook that's delicious. All right, my time is almost up put in my second
Round of orders staff here are really really nice. My grill wasn't really cooking fast enough
So they came and changed the grill changed the mesh now the fires were in and now things are cooking garlic is on the grill
So is the buttery gnocchi mushrooms? These things are absolutely amazing a lot of char got a side of wasabi as well
Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Thank you some salt wasabi
That is just so very nice chasing was on roasted garlic as well
Oh the meat with the roasted garlic
Definitely get the garlic gotta hurry up and finish all this
Be back in a sec
That was a good meal and at the end matcha ice cream
So overall, like I said this buffet is about 45 us dollars
I think for the quality of meats that you get that's pretty worth it
Especially the two cuts. I absolutely love the australian wagyu. I think it's the equivalent of maybe a4
Japanese wagyu, which is one step above usda prime and honestly, that's pretty darn marble
I mean you're gonna get some amazing melts in your mouth cuts and there's a lot of different things
I mean you need to keep your taste buds engaged interested like sashimi and different appetizers the truffle edamame
Of course you get ice cream for the price
I think it's a pretty good buffet super accommodating you get all the wasabi you want to dip your meat in I like the spice
So this is a one michelin star chinese restaurant to be more specific one michelin star fujianese restaurant
So fujianese food is a lot of fish a lot of seafood fresh ingredients more simple natural flavors
I think I learned my lesson from from this
So sometimes we go into a restaurant in singapore to give you this little plate covered in plastic wrap first couple times
I just went up and I thought it was included
It was just like a starter thing free for the table when I started eating it a lot of times
They charge you money for this. So i'm not gonna open this unless I know it's free
I think this is the most famous dish. This is called 100 seconds stewed yellow croaker stewed for exactly
100 seconds. Let's get this
Delicious cup of tea
Mmm big red cannon. So this is the yellow croaker and they capture a specific croaker
From within fujian apparently they have to do it at night
Because the ones that are night has a golden cue on the fish maw the fish belly and huang huayu
Is a fish I actually ate a lot in china. It does have a ton of little bones. So you gotta be careful
Yo
That's just so tender and the soup is really just some scallions ginger
and the fish
Very fresh tasting and the flavor profile
very simple
You don't need a lot of different ingredients to just highlight that sweet natural flavor of the fish and they stew this fish for exactly
100 seconds
I think that's part of what makes this fish so so soft and I love the fish maw
Yeah, right there very gelatinous very fatty. I think that's the best part of the fish. This is very classic fujian cooking light
Highlighting the natural flavors and it's just plain delicious if you want you can also take some of the fish meat
These are the little bones i'm talking about. I remember ever since I was a kid
My parents will cook this always tells me to be aware of the fish bones
Add little chilies in there
Amazing when I was a kid
I would often get fishbone stuck in my throat and the chinese solution for that
Is to just gulp chinese vinegar and the acid is going to soften off the bones
And then you just eat something like like a rice or a mantou. It'll be all good
Sometimes this is a dish they brought over to me and I was looking at this on the menu
So this is made with bian rou. So these are wontons and the outside wrapper of the wonton is actually made with the hind leg
Meat of a pig so they smash the meat until it becomes paper thin and they use it as a wrapper
And then inside it's pork
Oh, this is awesome, this is wonderful
The broth is tasty the wonton skin is so light and chewy fantastic fatty pork flavor on the inside wontons are basically
Translucent dip it in some of the chili sauce
Wow
That's just meat
Wrapped around meat soaked in a meat soup. This is like pork inception and the soup flavor is so good as well
Extremely flavorful and delicious. This is a great restaurant
I can't wait to come back and try more dishes so far
These two have knocked it out of the park for me fish
You gotta be a little careful, but this is about as natural as healthy and as delicious as fish can get
Also, I got a little lucky they're running a 50% off special on this dish eight dollars
A whole entire fish dish great deal dessert is that chou loquat with herbal jelly with chia seeds
That's great
This is so chilled and refreshing so far really impressed with this place
Wow service is good. The food is delicious. I gotta come back for a full meal sometimes