my wife and I had a great dinner at Southern Court recently (18.12.2008) during our stay there.generally we avoid western and chinese food in Japan since wagyu and Japanese food are of great quality and value and there is no need to risk paying high price and getting mediocre non Japanese food (though we were presently surprised to have nice cheap comfort food italian/spanish pasta/paella at Pronto @ Kyoto station - that's another story)..
so the 4200Y (inclusive tax) almost fine food 4 course set dinner +coffee at Southern Court was a real treat.
there was the usual amuse bouche and bread (quite average). my wife then started with a raw tune salad and I had a "smoke" salmon. the smoke salmon was Japanese style and we realized that Japanese smoke salmon at international buffet breakfast (mostly bad) and ryokan (good) were the slightly dry, smoke variety..this is quite unlike the usual western smoke salmon or chef's own freshly cured salmon. As it turned out the smoke salmon was a braised salmon that was prior smoked and it was really good-very flavourful and not too salty, even better than the tuna salad which itself was tastier than most you get in Singapore.
this was followed by a pumpkin soup, quite ok decent quality I guess nothing fantastic.
next we both had sirloin rare for main course. this is no "black hair Japanese beef" of course but it was still a rather good steak and nicely done and flavourful.
this was finished off with dessert and coffee..both good...
service quality by the young waiting staff is above average and polite as in 99% of Japanese outlets.
for 4200Y tax inclusive this is really great value (even with the ridiculously high 100Y=S$1.70 forex rate).
go give yourselves a treat!
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