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I haven't been in the restaurant since 2013! However, I've heard about many good things here for few years. So, I wanted to give it a shot!
I reserved a table through Yelp only a day before. It was easy. They will email you to confirm the reservation and remind you again when it's close to the time. I also received a message to confirm my reservation 3 hours before the time. So you can cancel it if you change your mind. It's easy like that.
I chose Kinka Iyasaka because I wanted my college friends to have great and fun experiences. I was glad that they like it.
Food was great. I gave 4 stars out of 5 stars. We ordered many dishes for sharing. Here what we had;
- Gomaae, balanced spinach with black arsenic sauce. This one looked very simple but its taste was incredible. It was a tiny portion but very rich.
- Takowasabi, this dish was tiny too however i always love takowasabi.
- Salmon sushi, it came with 6 pieces of sushi. It was ok but I would recommend other dishes.
- Takoyaki, deep fried octopus ball with tonkatsu sauce and mayo. My friends really like this tako thing lol
- Karaage, deep fried soya sauce marinated chicken with garlic mayo. It was simple fried chicken. If you like fried chicken and want to try something new, go for Torikawa!
- Almond tofu, it was very soft, not too sweet. It's good for a dessert. However, we didn't know that. Our server also asked when we wanted her to serve it. We thought it was food so we had it with other dishes.
- Saba, grilled saba mackerel with dill,garlic, onion on a sizzling plate.
- Torikawa, deep fried chicken with sour sauce. I wasn't sure what the sauce was. But I love it.
- Okonomiyaki, deep fried Japanese pancake. If you like takoyaki, you would love okonomiyaki too.
- Kimchi udon, udon noodle with spicy cod roe and kimchi. It was an interesting taste. Glad to try it.
Drink, we didn't have any fancy drink. We had a pot of Sencha green tea, orange juice and ume mojito. The mojito wasn't good. I wasn't sure if they added liqueur less than 1.5 or 2 oz. I'm sensitive to alcohol and always turn into red every time I drink even a quarter of glass. However, I felt nothing for this ume mojito.
Service was good. The ambiance was the same. Nice decoration, loud and fun environment! 4 stars was perfect for them. Only one issue before we started to order our food and drink. While we were waiting for 2 more friends coming, we wanted to start with drinks. We waited for at least 15 minutes and tried to grab someone attention. It was very loud so it was difficult to make them hear us. I didn't to flag anyone down. lol but we tried few times. Our server didn't even know in the beginning that we existed I thought. She was around us, took care of other tables but didn't know we were her table? Her coworkers called her for us. After that, everything was great. She came often and it was happy ending! lol
The end.
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