Food review - Rakeru Omurice

Ok I love food... and I also love to take pictures of food using my handphone's camera. Since it was even on a 0.3 megapixels resolution, I would take pictures of what I ate. My Flickr account has more pictures of food and drinks than pictures of friends or scenery , I could sometimes be considered a glutton to many. This is a backlog blog entry on a food review I should have done long ago on Rakeru Omurice which is suppose omelette wrapped rice. It was suggested by a friend, Vicky to go try it as she read it somewhere that it was good. So along with another friend Yimei, we went to hunt it down. It took us quite a while to find it as we were expecting it to be a restaurant, but it was located in Bugis Junction's food junction

Interesting to know that Omurice(Omu-raisu オムライス) is a contemporary Japanese dish consisting of an omelette wrapping fried rice. Its name is a portmanteau of the French word "omelette" and the English word "rice". Omurice is said to have originated at a western style restaurant called Renga-tei in Tokyo's Ginza district around the turn of the 19th century.

The Rakeru Omurice has many reviews as it is acclaimed to be special for serving on a hot plate with special Japanese sauce to create a crispy, burnt effect. You can see one such review in this nice blog of Jaime-La-Nourriture I found which is done in chinese and has quite a nice "professional-look" picture in it. You can clearly see burnt rice in it.
Strangely, the blog's "professional" picture looks so similar to the one on ST Foodies club. Hmm...while mine has the "non-professional-true-to-life" look. No burnt rice leh! Wondering if it's because I ordered wrongly, I did ask for Okoge and suppose to have it burnt. Anyway it also comes in curry flavoured or tomato sauce as well. Together with Vicky and Yimei, we ordered all 3 types. If the pictures do not look nice, they also actually do not taste as nice as we were expecting.

Yimei's tomato-sauced Omurice that also comes with veggies to complete the meal.

Vicky's curry flavoured Omurice as you can see the brown curry rice. Not much curry sauce around.

Actually it is quite a disappointment as the food was rather not delectable given the fact that we were rather hungry. The next time round, I would try ordering from the many other stores there are in the food junction.

We decide to get some real good desserts from MOF - My Izakaya, which made up for it. And oh by the way, MOF stands for Ministry of Food. They have quite a nice selection of desserts. We ordered just 2 to share.


The fried yam, sweet potatoes which came with the nice soft ice cream which serves with fresh mangoes is nice. Forgotten the names of the ice cream.And we went on to try the many flavours of ice cream they have. That completes our dinner!