Teppei - Singapore

It has been more than 2 years that I visited this restaurant again. I am glad that they survived the pandemic. The food is great as usual but sadly the tempura menu is reduced. I ordered the Wagyu beef rice bowl. The beef is tender and tasty. The staffs are courteous and responsive. I will visit it again as it is a place to go for good food at a decent price. Be warned that there used to be long queue pre pandemic. The queue will come back.

The bearing of its humble beginning started in this Teppei restaurant that stalwart into the many other Japanese cuisine concept helmed by Mr. Teppei, we see today. Advance reservation is recommended in this almost post pandemic era. Alternatively, call in to check whether there is any last minute cancellation to secure a seating at the restaurant. Service in general was good with staff noting your main course preference, ensuring water is served and ushering into your seats. Perhaps what was perplexing, would be their sake menu that took forever to arrive onto my table, as I seek to quench my alcoholic thirst, by jumpstarting myself with a highball before sake. In all fairness, their sake offering is reasonably priced and between the sake quality and affordability, is well justified. Food started off with an amuse-bouche followed by the usual series of dishes, kicked off in the usual style of Teppei restaurant. The kitchen comes alive delivering dishes after dishes, to ensure customers appetite of a feast. The highlights of this omakase (indicated in my photos), comprises of smoked fish claypot rice, Hyogo oyster, ikura maki and their wagyu beef. Not all dishes in the omakase menu assembled in the right balance between flavours and taste. The hit and misses in their dishes perhaps amply described like an old wild west movie, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Perhaps what we don’t see nowadays would be fried chicken crown on skewer or maybe fried chitterlings skewer that amazed their crowd spiraling into an episode of fear factor or a rich delicacy, for the adventurous.

Had a really pleasant experience for the omakase dinner, first time having their omakase which we need to book around a month before (and slots are filled really fast! . In total, we had 16 different dishes (including dessert and a cherry tomato and they still gave us a cup of sake in the end. The whole session lasted around 2 hours and we were constantly getting fed! Love most of the dishes and they use high quality ingredients. The flavor of the dishes are quite bold compared to other omakase we had but they executed it really well. Particularly love their aburi otoro and the sushi with tempura bits inside. It costs 120++SGD per person but it's really worth it to celebrate special occasions with this satisfying meal :

My first Omakase experience. Nice food : Thank God that they didn’t serve any offal that day. But if you have any food allergy, please do notify the staff. Anyway, they will go one round to confirm with the customers at the start before serving the food.

If you only can afford one omakase experience in your whole life, come to Teppei. You won't be disappointed! Every dishes are very unique and the staff pay extra attention to details. They even ask customers want extra, normal, small portion of rice to accommodate different stomach capacity. Furthermore, wide selection of the main dish to end the night.