Tenjin is Les Amis group’s newly opened tempura donburi (tendon) restaurant at Shaw Centre.
In another world, some might be familiar with Les Amis and their "French dining experience" (i.e. atas food).
Three types of tendon But back to the new restaurant.
The 44-seater space sells three types of tendon (rice bowls) — vegetables, seafood and vegetables, and premium seafood and vegetables.
Diners can choose between two types of sauce for their tendon: Spicy tare or regular tare, and each rice bowl comes with a serving of miso soup and a side of Kyabetsu salad.
1. Yasai Bowl The Yasai bowl (S$12.80) is the most affordable, and comes with vegetables like sweet pumpkin, aubergine, lotus root, shiitake mushroom and perilla leaves.
2. Jo Bowl The Jo Bowl (S$14.80) consists of egg, prawn and vegetable tempura:
3. Toku-Jo Bowl Finally, the premium Toku-Jo Bowl (S$22.80) consists of prawn, crab leg, anago (sea eel), fish tempura, vegetables, and egg:
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Toku-jo A bit late to the game, Tenjin is the latest Tendon specialty shop to have opened way after the wave of such shops and the trend having passed for quite some time. Moving into space which belonged to the now-defunct Circa 1912, Tenjin is situated in between Indigo Blue Kitchen and Kausmo at Shaw Centre. The Toku-jo is the Premium bowl here, consisting of Tempura pieces such as Anago, Crab Leg, Prawn, Fish, Vegetables and Freedom Range Egg, all the Tendons here come with Miso Soup and Kyabetsu Salad by the side, and an option to choose between Spicy Tare or Regular Tare for the choice of sauce. Going for the Tempura pieces, we liked how the Tempura pieces were pretty well-executed; the seafood being fresh with its moisture locked in while being encased in a light and airy Tempura batter that is crisp and not particularly greasy. The various vegetables such as the pumpkin, Shiso Leaf, and eggplant provided various textures to the bowl; the pumpkin and eggplant maintained a soft texture, while the Shiso Leaf was light and crisp — the Shiitake Mushroom also adding a bouncy bite within the light and crisp batter. Hidden beneath all the condiments, the Freedom Range Egg is also encased in the same batter — a poke from the chopstick sees the yolk eagerly bursting out, providing the fluffy, short-grain rice with a silkier touch; the rice comes drizzled with the Regular Tare (which we opted) that carried a sweet-savoury note that was not excessive or pudding at the bottom of the bowl. A pretty well-executed Tendon here; one of the better bowls out there; while this is more on the pricier side at $22.80, the two other bowls are priced below $15 before taxes and prevailing charges — a place to hit for those Tendon cravings without the queue (for now, that is).
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The restaurant also serves Truffle Chawanmushi (S$3.80):
Details Address:
Tenjin
Shaw Centre, 1 Scotts Rd, #03-08, Singapore 228208
Opening Hours:
Tuesdays - Sundays, 11:30am - 3pm, 6pm - 10pm
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July 26, 2019, 05:52 PM 
