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| - Moji is a rustic modern-looking Japanese restaurant which offers mostly rice bowl, udon and limited choices of dessert and drinks. We decided to go to Moji after we checked on Yelp and saw those lovely Mochi Ice-cream pictures. However, the server told us there was a lack of demand for Rainbow Mochi ice-cream, Red bean & Mochi Ice cream and Ice-cream Screamer, they have discontinued these three desserts. I was actually quite disappointed since my original intention to goto Moji was to try two of these three options. Anyways, we still ordered a Gyudon (Thin sliced beef rice bowl), Buta Udon (thin slice pork in udon soup), matcha ice cream and taro ice cream.
We liked the flavor for the rice bowl and udon bowl. It tasted like something my mother would cook for me, very warm and hearty. I found it weird that they put two slices of cantaloupe in the beef bowl, which didn't really match well with the rest of the bowl. I think it would be better if they can put it separately. Also, for the udon soup, I found it weird to have the edamame inside my udon soup. I think it should taste better if they can put it in a separate small bowl for appetizer instead.
I am not a big fan of their ice-creams. The taro flavor did not taste like the actual taro ice-cream. It taste like they mixed some cream base products with the taro flavored tapioca powder. It tasted very sweet. We couldn't taste anything from the matcha flavor ones and it was very bland. We would recommend them to add more matcha powder in the ice-cream for a stronger flavor. Also, the ice cream melts relatively faster than other ice creams places we have been to. We felt like we need to finish the ice cream asap to prevent everything turns into liquid.
I would still come back for the rice bowl/udon bowl since the price was acceptable and the food taste pretty good. However, we will not order dessert from them unless they improve the flavor of the ice cream. Aside from the dessert issue, I will give Moji a 4 star!
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