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| - Thanks to Edwin for a great job on the amazing UYE.
parked right in front of the place, you can park on street starting at 6pm, max 3 hours and that's $6.75 all in.
out front is a small patio (stand up area for people to smoke while enjoy their drinks?)
once you step inside, you found yourself in a bar. you really don't feel like you are in a Japanese restaurant.
a thing I don't like, is that they use disposable chopsticks that is already opened. at least put it in a sleeve with the restaurant name printed on it.
the food:
The edamame is kind of boring and looks brown on the edges. I guess it's the marinade, may be they should use white soy sauce?
Tuna avocado salad with plantain chips, meh. Mushy when you have it with the chips, better feel to it when eaten alone.
Same goes for the Toro (tuna belly meat) meat ball with the garlic bread, just like what Laura mentioned, too much bread, and it's like a paste when you put it on the garlic bread. once again, eaten alone feels much better.
you can't really tell if it's just tuna or tuna belly, too much sauce on it...
***the beef tataki is the highlight of the day, it got the kick from the hot sauce and the lemon that the Tuna lacks, and it has a great balance of texture with the onion and small pieces of tortilla chips.
Tuna Carpaccio, it's great, the sauce is perfect (as I like the sour citrus taste, turns out it's Yuzu?)
Ebi Mayo is next, tempura shrimp with a spicy mayo dressing, it's okay.
One of the shrimp's meat feels a bit mushy, or may be it's some of the batter not being cook through, I'm not going to pull it out from my mouth to confirm it...
Renkon Gyoza Tempura, Lotus root sandwiched some minced pork meat (and veggie?) and tempura fried.
it's something I used to have all the time at home that my mom would cook, and we are not Japanese.
it's barely okay, and the dipping sauce taste like just some soy sauce with garlic and sesame oil or something like that, it actually doesn't taste good together. need some kind of acidity to cut the fattiness...
Halibut Taco, I can't tell what kind of fish when I'm eating this. too bad, the flour tortilla just too thick for this and it masked everything else. At the table we all say it should try with some kind of rice paper or something much lighter for it...
Beef short ribs, it's the thinnest beef short ribs I have seen in restaurants.
you cook 1 side of it and it's done, literally paper thin...
Karaage, Fried Chicken. really, I had better. they actually forgot the whole garnish on one of the plate...
Ishi-Yaki, minced pork in spicy miso sauce over rice in a hot stone bowl. need more vegetable? it need something...
Yaki Udon, stir-fried noodles with vegetable and chicken. looks good, taste bland.
on to drinks:
I order the special blend that was made for Hapa Izakaya, Izumi Hapa.
it comes in a wine tasting glass? would be great as a finish to the meal, but I had it the first thing at the beginning...
taste pretty good, actually you can taste the banana in it.
later on we shared a pitcher of Asahi, and I liked the glass they use, it's tall. but the waitress did a bad job on pouring, the first glass has 90% of foam.
and it's asahi, nothing special...
and finally as I saw someone else had the Asahi Black, so I asked the waitress to get me a bottle, and I ask how much it is (just wondering), and she didn't know, she goes for the drink menu, it's $7.5 a bottle.
I liked the glass they serve it in, it's a small glass (cooler size?) with Asahi black logo and names and some Japanese word on it. we were saying we should take it home...
unfortunately, they don't have dessert for us in this set menu. so we asked for the dessert menu so we can have a look.
actually I did notice the panna cotta they serve from the table next to us, it's looks good, but we were all too full to have anything else.
one thing we notice, is that when they serve one of the fish dishes, the waitress will actually bring the blow-torch to the table to char the fish? that's really a new take on table side cooking for you.
overall, waitress are great, they did great in a busy time and able to handle the large group of us.
the restaurant was quite noisy, in an acceptable way, it's an Izakaya after all.
4/15
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