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| - I'm not sure how I feel about this place. The food was pretty good, but for the location, the ambiance and the price, I feel like I should have gotten bigger portions.
Had:
Soft pork bone ramen - first, nothing like the picture. Looks like they dumped everything in. Pork bone was tender and quite good. Plus. Ramen was mediocre.
Curry beef don - curry was good. Very little beef. Quite sad, actually.
Tuna tartare - got tricked. They have pictures of food on their menu that don't correlate to menu items. Their excuse was that these pictures were of "special items" their customers had requested. I wanted the one in the picture. I did not get that one because I did not order the right thing (which wasn't on the menu). Disappointed.
Ankimo sushi - 2 pieces per order. In the wrong section of the menu. Taste-wise, pretty interesting. My first time. I'll probably have it again, but I doubt it'll be here.
Deep fried fish skin - not on the menu. Chef made this for us. Compliments of the house. They said they were going to give us complimentary dessert because we ordered so much. When we asked about this at the end of the meal, they said the fish skin was the replacement for the complimentary dessert. Complimentary, but what a rip off. Dessert for 5, or 5 small pieces of deep fried fish skin (which some people deign unworthy of consumption). Texture for this was super crispy, but I wasn't sure whether that was crispy because of the skin, or a fish scale crispy type of texture.
Crab fried rice - good amount of crab. We asked for them to make a bigger plate of it for us (more rice). They said they did. Portion ended up regular sized for every restaurant but here.
Flying fish sashimi - never seen this one on a menu before. Interesting. Not my favorite kind of sashimi, but definitely worth trying. Presentation was nice. Shredded ginger on top was a nice touch as well.
Geoduck sashimi - not cheap. Definitely not cheap. Presented well too. Texture was lovely. Not as sweet fleshed as I would have liked though.
Baked oyster - chopped up oyster with mashed potatoes and other fillings. Not worth $9. Oyster flesh was delicious, but one oyster covered in mashed potato? I'm paying $8 for the mashed potato and the baking process? No thanks.
Stools for seating. Bad for people with bad backs (poor grandpa). Very little space in this restaurant. One server. If it got super busy, I can see that, coupled with the layout of the restaurant, posing a challenge. Friendly service though.
All in all, a splurge night for us (costed us about $30 per person, and I was only about 65% full at the end of the night).
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