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| - Had an early dinner today at Aka. The interior design was very good. When we first came into the store, the waitress asked us to wait while she prepared a table. But actually she was just picking up the menu, so I don't understand why we had to wait at the door for that at all.
We ordered Okonomiyaki fries, Hokkaido gyu ngyu nabe(milk based hot pot) and supreme beef teppanyaki rice. Foods are overall overpriced let alone execution. Yet the execution was quite disappointing. With the fries, sauce was only enough to cover the top, all the fries down in the bowl were dry, and nothing different than regular fries. I mean, why would someone pay $6 for regular fries?! So we had to ask for extra okonomi sauce and mayonnaise. Then the teppanyaki rice, the idea itself is brilliant, I once tried a similar dish in Hong Kong, however in this restaurant, the sauce was not with strong enough flavour, in this case I think it's such a waste for this good idea of using hot iron plate. Well, so we asked for extra black pepper. Then for the hotpot, the soup base is really good. But the overall portion is small, and it's $22 for one serving size. Again, overpriced.
Lastly, for the service, the staff were trying to be friendly, however you can feel their lack of sophistication. One person said we can keep the menu for drinks and dessert, then another came in five mins taking the menu away from us. While serving the teppanyaki rice, the server confirmed with us that we could cook our own dish, then another waitress came help with the cooking. Also, today is extremely hot with a heat warning; so we took a risk ordering drizzling hot food, however we felt so hot during the mean, and we were told that the ac broke down and they're trying to fix it. Well, great effort, but not worth your money yet. YET. I really think the restaurant idea has great potential, and hopefully it could make huge progress in near future.
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