Santaro Japanese Restaurant was one of the ‘untouchable’ Japanese restaurants – those you wouldn’t dream of stepping into for fear of ripping your wallet open. Today, they proved their point to me – at a costly price, no less. After spotting a Groupon deal for the Amara outlet, my girlfriends and I snapped up two $30-for-$60 vouchers for our birthday girl’s dinner treat. Apparently, what I learnt was that $60 wouldn’t buy you anything more than a sushi platter.

