73@Hillcrest off Greenwood Avenue is a cramped but modern open-air kopitiam (73 Hillcrest Road, 6904-8373) that rents out a couple of stalls in the back. One of them is from Osaka-based Shimadaseimen, which is somehow related to a Kobe-based Michelin Bib Gourmand called Enishi. They do a fish-based broth.
Each ingredient in the bowl had things that I liked but also didn't like. The chashu, for instance, had an impressively tasty char on it, but it was a bit sweet. The egg was deeply infused with a good-tasting soy sauce and mirin, but was also sweeter than I thought it would be.
The broth was *not* sweet and in fact was respectably savory, but didn't have much depth and got boring after a while. And the noodles, while nicely shaped, were soft and didn't really have much taste. Ultimately, it just didn't come together the way that I had hoped. As such, I won't bother fighting those crowds to eat here again.
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