I was privileged to be invited to OMY.SG Bloggers Christmas Dinner kindly hosted by OMY.SG and Sushi Tei Singapore.

Sushi Tei has customised us a special menu for the night and I was excited to taste all the dishes listed on the dinner menu!

Sashimi Salad: SGD$9*

First dish happens to be also my favourite dish from Sushi Tei: Sashimi Salad.
It was served to us with 3 types of salad dressing.
When I first tasted this back then when this dish was recommended to me by a friend, she recommended to me the wafu sauce and since then I never looked at another sauce again.
However, during this dinner, I was able to try the other two sauces besides wafu sauce: sesame sauce and garlic sauce.

And I fell in love with the sesame dressing.
I love sesame. So that dressing was a home-run.
Why didn’t I see that in the menu previously?!?!

Sashimi Moriwase – Asama: SGD$30*

The second dish was a sashimi platter that consist of bluefin tuna, yellowtail and salmon.
Personally, I prefer yellowtail and salmon.
Salmon is spot-on! Fresh, cold; meat texture was creamy and chewing it was total heaven.

Kani Mentai Mayo Roll: SGD$8*

It was my first time tasting this Kani Mentai Mayo Roll.
It is a sushi dish with a deep-fried crabmeat centre and mentai crushed into a paste, mixed with mayo then lightly grilled.

Kani Mentai Mayo Roll

On the first bite, you get the crispiness of the deep fried carrot topping and the crabmeat centre.
The soft seaweed wrap inside gives you the texture contrast of crispiness and softness then you will be hit with a wave of saltiness from the mentai mayo.

Kani Mentai Mayo Roll

As you chew, the saltiness mixes with the sushi rice and the texture just works magic in your mouth.
It is then you get that charred-grill taste lingering on the back of your throat and the sweetness of the mayo on your taste buds that lures you back for seconds.

I had 2 pieces!!
Nom nom nom… Mmm~

Asari Butter: SGD$14*

After the sweet and saltiness of the Kani mentai mayo roll, we were presented with a hot dish of Asari clams sauteed with butter and soya sauce.
The clams were soaked through with the salty garlicky essence sauce which makes the clams so yummy!

Asari Butter

Fellow bloggers Tiffany and Magdelene loved the gravy that was collected at the bottom of the bowl!

The clams texture was very chewy with a slight Q, without that rubbery feel.
The gravy permeates your mouth with every bite.
So sinful! 😛

Hanasaki Ika Tempura: SGD$6*

I affectionately called this “calamari fries”.
It does look like deep-fried calamari and since it was served with mayo sauce, I thought I totally got this.
But at the first bite, my brain got stumped!
The squid, covered with smelt roe and fried tempura bits, isn’t the same kind of calamari I usually eat in British style food pubs.
The texture of the squid is soft, Q and chewy, never the rubbery kind.
The slightly saltiness of the roe and the fried tempura bits were like mini grenades exploding in my mouth; yet it was so unnoticeable because you will be enjoying the softness of the squid and the sweetness of mayo in your mouth, yet the subtle pop-rocks feel in my mouth was wonderful.
O-M-G!

Homemade Meat Gyoza: SGD$6*

If you love gyoza, you should try this.
One side of the gyoza has just the right amount of crispiness, the other side so soft like satin sheets; and when you bite into the gyoza, the pork filling with the soupy gravy just oozes in your mouth to the perfect tasty feeling of charred-grill crispiness and the softness of the gyoza skin.

See that brown crisp sticking out on the side?

It is like a symphony where you have the soft timpani drums and the sharp sleek violins. Mmm~

Kaisen Chankonabe: SGD$28*

At this moment, we were full and yet, not too substantial.
Here comes the sumo!!
The Kaisen Chankonabe is a hotpot dish with a selection of vegetables and seafood(yellow-tail, scallop, salmon & prawn). It comes with a choice of 3 types of soup base: Shoyu, Miso, Spicy.
We had 2 of this hotpot on the entire table and we chose one miso and one spicy.
This particular one nearest to our table was the spicy version.

If you think it is very spicy; it isn’t too spicy really.
If I were to rate it, I would rate it somewhere between beginner and intermediate; but closer to the intermediate “spicy-ness” chart.

While waiting for the ingredients to cook, fellow blogger Tiffany and I were having fun chatting and doing silly poses.

Fellow Blogger Tiffany

It was very nice that we manage to meet, sit down and have friendly chit chats about our blogging lifestyle; as well as sharing interesting life stories and experiences.

Golden Roll: SGD$16*

Next, we were presented with this Golden roll.
If you can, add this as a part of your finale before your desserts.
The tart mango gives you the right amount of refreshing tangy sour-sweet taste to those mini mentai pop-rocks that puts fireworks on  your taste buds as you chew through to the rice and the prawn. The balance of the sweet and salty was really nice on this dish.
I felt personally that mango is like the perfect match to balance out any salty main ingredient; and the twang opens your taste buds to desserts!

Beetroot- fruit sorbets

We had 3 types of desserts!
Yes, we definitely were spoilt for choice!
This colourful bowl of sorbets; at an initial glance: a very normal dish.
But do you know? One of the main ingredient is beetroot!
Greens were apple, yellows were mango, purple were grape and I can’t remember the white ones.
O-M-G!
These little balls are to die for!!!
The cold little sorbet bits melts like icebergs in warm water; with the fruit juice spreads immediately on your palate. The taste of these were unforgettable.

Vanilla ice cream sandwich with chocolate centre in a waffle

This is an ultimate sandwich of taste.
A slice of chocolate thin was sandwich between vanilla ice cream, in turn sandwiched by 2 waffle shells.
The ice-cream is cold and the chocolate is of right sweetness.
This wasn’t a hit with me but definitely was with the other girls!

Ice cream sandwich

This is one dessert that I love very very much!!

Coffee Bon-bon

This plain-jane is a sensation in my mouth.
It is a coffee bon bon; literally semi-melted ice coffee crème covered with white chocolate.
I bit the entire bon bon in one mouth.

OMG.
Coffee HEAVEN!!! in my mouth~

I love this! Like crazy!!~
It’s like macchiato + ice cream in one small bon bon exploding like volcano lava in my mouth.
AWESOMENESS~

From Left: Hui Zi, Tiffany & Madgelene

All in all, it was a very special night with good food and good company~
And most importantly, we as bloggers; came out from behind the computer screens, sat down and really got to know one another.
That is what the whole idea of blogging is about really.
Experiencing, doing and writing what we love and making friends from near and far!

From left: Hui Zi, Me & Tiffany

Disclaimer: Dinner compliments of Sushi Tei and OMY.SG. No monetary compensation was received. Opinions stated are genuine and honest. Also note that all sources, information, content, links are accurate at the time of posting.