Sora Boru (313@Somerset): Volcano Beef Don + Bara Chirashi Don!
1-for-1 at Sora Boru, 313@Somerset: the signature Volcano Beef Don (regular, $11.90) with torched beef and spicy sauce, plus a Bara Chirashi Don (mini, $9.50). Burpple Beyond.
Japanese dinner with BB at Sora Boru, using the Burpple Beyond 1-for-1 deal. Volcano Beef Don (regular, $11.90) + Bara Chirashi Don (mini, $9.50). 😋
Sora Boru is the affordable Japanese rice-bowl concept at 313@Somerset (down at #B3-19/20), where the name is a playful take on how “bowl” sounds in Japanese. It does customisable chirashi dons, curry bowls and its signature Snow Beef and Volcano Beef dons fast-casual style, ordered over the counter, with most mains in Regular and Mini sizes.
What was on the tray ($21.40 before the 1-for-1):
- Volcano Beef Don (regular, $11.90): sliced beef piled into a mound, crowned with a fiery red spicy sauce, sesame and scallions, with a sheet of nori.
- Bara Chirashi Don (mini, $9.50): diced raw fish and scallop over sushi rice, topped with tamago cubes, cucumber, orange tobiko and sesame.
The Volcano Beef Don earns its name from the mound of beef and the lava-like spicy sauce cascading down it. The beef was tender and savoury, and the chilli sauce gave it the promised kick, a hearty, comforting bowl. The Bara Chirashi (“bara” means the fish comes rough-diced rather than sliced) was the lighter, fresher counterpoint: cubes of raw fish and scallop with bursts of briny tobiko, sweet tamago and cool cucumber over seasoned rice.
Ordering one of each in Mini and Regular made for a nicely balanced sharing dinner, one warm and spicy, one cool and fresh. With the 1-for-1 deal halving the bill, this was a satisfying Japanese dinner in the Orchard belt for the price of a single bowl.
Overall: 4.5 / 5. 😋👍🏼 The spicy Volcano Beef Don and the fresh Bara Chirashi made a great pairing, and the 1-for-1 made it a steal. Would re-visit.
