Menya Shinchan Japanese Restaurant

Best known for its hinjiro – a giant bowl of homemade noodles, cabbages and bean sprouts, with marbled pork belly in a rich tonkotsu broth.

“Hinjiro is a kind of cult ramen which was made popular in Japanese universities," says expert panel member and food blogger Leslie Tay. "The tsukemen, a type of dry ramen where you dip the ramen in the tonkotsu broth topped with niboshi powder and broken charsu bits, is great too.”

The gyozas, wrapped in paper-thin skins and grilled by the owner rounds off the meal nicely.