It just happened today that I walked coincidentally into “Waraku” and tasted its “Black Pepper Beef Rice”. Largely to my surprise, I found it really delicious that on the spot I felt I could eat two or three more sets. It’s quite recent in my mind as I am frequently wanting to eat Japanese food that I realize I like it more than I do for Chinese food. This is amazing!
On the other hand, whenever I feel like having some hometown cuisine it would end up either that it’s too expensive to have it on my own or that the restaurant is located in a remote region (like maybe NTU).
In my humble opinion, that fact that I am consistently pushed away from having what’s supposed to be my favourite cuisine is caused by two reasons. Firstly, Chinese cuisine is served differently from Japanese food. Chinese food is normally served to a group of people in a less casual occasion, in terms of a number of dishes of which each one who is having this meal can taste a small amount. whereas Japanese food is more often served as a set or combination of a few sub-dishes with less amount which are only sufficient for one person (Whether this is the case in Japan needs to be verified). As a result, having Chinese cuisine frequently demands a less casual occasion in which there are more than four participants. Secondly, the availability of Chinese food is less than that of Japanese food. You can easily locate Japanese restaurants even not within the premises of shopping mall (such as the subway between city mall and suntec) while you hardly can find a genuine Chinese restaurant (one must exclude those Singapore-styled restaurants). However, i’d rather see this as an extension of the first reason that accounts less for my argument. The way in which Chinese food is served defines it’s a more luxurious consumption, or at least seems to be, that it’s targeted at a higher-end market.
In a fast-paced society like Singapore, time is precious, people don’t have the mood to savor the subtle difference among dishes but tend to take a shortcut to enjoy an all-around feeling of one combined dish. Hence, Japanese food grips this need and address to it directly (think about sushi!).
At a larger scale, you can’t just blame Singapore’s pace, Japanese food is in fact much more pervasive around the globe, but countries that are as fast-paced as Singapore aren’t that common at all.
There must be something, something more important that determines the trend, and i’ve got to find it out. Having always been an advocate of Chinese culture, I regard food as one of the pillars, the spine of it. We can’t just let someone else take over us. Moreover, rebuilding the brand of Chinese food is an excellent business idea!
I ought to research more on this topic, more stunning results are coming 
