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Tsubaki-An, A Pleasant Experience

January 30th, 2008

Recently, I went to a place that I had been meaning to go to for quite some time.
The place is called ‘Tsubaki-an’, a Japanese restaurant located just off Boat Quay (Circular Road). I have been to many Japanese restaurants, sushi bars, Japanese BBQs…. But I have never been quite so pleasantly surprised by the spirit of hospitality.

This place is run by Japanese who are from `Kyoto`, the old capital of Japan back in 7th or 8th century. So the food on the menu is Western Japanese (as in from the west of Japan) ‘Obanzai’.

I reached there at about 9pm on Saturday night, the place was quite small, fairly busy still, there were a few tables as well as a bar seats. There was another half of the place, it must have been the function room.

There was only one waitress who was juggling everything around on the floor at the time. She was a bit stressed but she cleared up the only free table & we were seated 5 minutes later. (By the way all the staff there are Japanese.) I had to wait for some time for her to come back to me after I decided the appetizer to go along with my Asahi beer. Finally she came and asked for my order and I ordered one jug of Asahi draught. After about ten minutes, she came up to me and said “This is complimentary, as we made you wait for so long and I am very sorry”. Then and she gave me an extra mug of Asahi draught!!