Fuku Sake & Wine Bar

The upper level of World Square is certainly not short of outstanding cuisine with Din Tai Fung and more recently, Neil Perry’s Burger Project. However, I knew very little about Fuku prior to trying it this week. I went with a group of 6 and we tried a range of items from the pork belly to the Karaage to sushi rolls and a sashimi platter. Everything was delicious and the sashimi was very fresh. The raw scallops were a standout on the platter. We also had the lemon sake which was refreshing though this may have just indicated that there was more lemonade than sake! Overall, a pleasing experience.

This place is beautiful, the atmosphere is chilled and welcoming, with a glorious and fruitful selection of beverages that I found myself still contemplating what to drink once the food was sitting on my table. Definitely try the yakitori platter.
The food is unbelievable and mouth watering, however the attentiveness of the staff is what enhanced my dining experience here.
This was a wonderful surprise to stumble upon and highly recommend this place! Five star and beyond, without a doubt.

Now I know the word ‘comfort’ means a lot of different things to different people. But comfort food to me includes stir fried radish cake, steaming fluffy rice with spicy soups, slurpy beef noodles buried under a thick blanket of thick beef gravy, chilli crab smoothered in luscious bright neon orange sauce and steamboat bubbling away like a jacuzzi. A steamboat is only made even better when it’s full of spicy tomyum or sichuan broth.
Yet no matter how much I wanted to sit down to a Sichuan hotpot dinner, the SO was adamant he didn’t want a repeat performance on the chilli stakes. Instead he voted that we have dinner at Fuku Restaurant Sake and Wine Bar.
Fuku Restaurant Sake and Wine Bar’s menu is Japanese and includes a little bit of everything: donburi, yakidori, sushi, sashimi, tempura and nabe. I danced a little jig inside, seeing as nabe is similar enough to steamboat and hotpots, so I was going to get my steamboat fix afterall.
The seafood nabe was a small order and perfect for the both of us. It included one leg portion of crab (possibly blue swimmer), 2 large prawns, mussels, squid, firm tofu, spring onions and fresh cabbage. I cannot imagine how large the large size might be.
Our waiter brought over the cooker and the claypot with all the raw ingredients piled in a heap, turned the cooker on and told us to wait, which was easy enough as we munched on the yakidori, sashimi and tempura. I couldn’t resist giving the nabe a couple of pokes to ensure everything cooked properly.
Once the pot got bubbling, a waitress came over to scoop out our individual servings and then shell the whole prawns. It was a little unexpected, seeing as how hotpot/​nabe is normally a homely affair where we’d get down and dirty with our hands — it’s half the fun, but I suppose being posher than the street food stalls and home, the service Fuku Restaurant Sake and Wine Bar provided was logical.
Nonetheless, it was the perfect tummy warmer and we left very satisfied.