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This one definitely deserve 5 stars. It's definitely a hidden gem. It's not busy....yet!
Speed read:
1) Grilled eels, Iberico Pork, Beef Tendon
2) Feels like a casual dinner with the chef where he will teach us about food while we watch him cook
3) Direction: Vellore wood blvd, 2nd driveway to plaza, all the way to the end.
4) Can someone try to fois gras and tell me if it's good please?
Not easy to find.
Quick directions: Enter Vellore woods Blvd then 2nd driveway to plaza, all the way to the end.
Service:
Excellent service. We get the attention from the chef and owner (Alex).
He's not a great salesman speaker, but once I start asking questions about the food and cooking, he speak passionately about it while he cooks right in front of me. So I feel like I am in a food show where i am having a casual dinner with a celebrity chef. I like to learn about food. I really don't need to see a cooking utensil tossing show.
Food - highlight:
Okonomiyaki - Osaka style - made with cabbage and eggs, with bonito flakes on top. Tasty starter. It doesn't have noodle in it, so it's not supposed to be filling.
Grilled eel (Unagi) - This is one of the highlight. (Call ahead to pre-order)
Most other Japanese restaurant serve eels loaded with sweet sauce that totally masked the original taste and they are from frozen eel. Chinese restaurant tend to serve it steamed, but the eels usually taste fishy and earthy, in which they use ginger, garlic and other spice to get ride of the taste.
This eels is FRESH!!! The eels is freshly killed and cut right in front of us, and deboned. It was still moving after after it's cut. It's on the grill after it's cleaned. I thought I can only see this in Japanese comic books.
This grilled eels weight about 1.5 lbs, which is a good size, where it doesn't taste earthy, and yet have a good chewy texture. (smaller eels usually feel mushy). It's lightly seasoned with salt and pepper. I can taste the fish's original taste, and excellent texture.
Black Iberico Pork - Another highlight!
Best tasting pork ever. It's grilled to medium-well done. I sprinkle rock salt on top before I eat it. Again, I am not eating teppanyaki sauce here. I am tasting the original pork flavor.
Put it in comparison to the Wagyu beef, I would rate this pork higher on the list. The wagyu beef has rich fatty taste, but I prefer the pork that taste more meaty. I ate it so quickly, that we forgot to take pictures.
Abalone and Tilefish serve in Mirin/sake/grill onion sauce.
The fresh abalone is grilled with the shell in. And then deshelled and cut in piece. The abalone is not super chewy like the dry Chinese type. Original abalone flavor.
The tile-fish is a flaky fish grilled with the skin cut off (and grilled separately). The fish skin (with the scale still on it) is very crispy. The sauce and the tile fish blend in very well. The fish is pretty good....but the eels stole the show :)
Beef Tendon -- Highlight!! - I didn't expect this in a teppanyaki.
I love beef Tendon. Alex told me it has been cook for about 4 hours. Soft tendon, very flavorful with rice and Udon. I was full, but I still manged to eat an entire bowl of rice after this. Best Beef tendor i ever tried. It's better than a lot of other Chinese/Taiwanese place I tried.
The only regret is that I didn't try the Fois gras, another reason I will go back.
Price:
It's reasonable price given the ingredient what we are served with. Eels, Iberico pork, wagyu beef, abalone, are all premium ingredients. I can cook my own salmon, scallops, but it takes a real chef to bring out the great taste of premium ingredients.
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