I was in Singapore this week. As if in response to the comments I had made on this very blog earlier, my colleagues took me to Cherry Garden at the Mandarin Oriental. In turn, allow me to formally retract my earlier comment about Japanese dining in Singapore being no good. The Cherry Garden was really nice. And of the four meals we did, including the grilled seafood at the outdoor Newton Circus Hawkers Market, upscale American at Desire at the Scarlet Hotel, and hip Indonesian at Indochine next to the Asian Museum, this was by far the best. If you are looking for a nice Japanese meal, sans the additional flight to Japan, this is the place to go to in SIN. Incidentally the photograph above is from our offices in Singapore - the Fullerton can be seen in the foreground close to the mouth of the Singapore river.
