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I went to there at late night 9 pm. Although restaurant was about to close, I had no problem entering and having meal there. When I was seated, there were five groups of people, approximately 13 people were there. I was honestly surprised to see so many people in 9 pm.
The first thing I noticed was that the place was horribly disorganized and dirty. The "sushi bar" was fully filled with kitchen appliances that there is absolutely no space for a human being to sit down and have a meal. Also, there were dust all over the floor which made me to assume they have not cleaned or sanitized for a long time. The owner of this place should put more care to the sanitation of this place.
Despite the messy and dirty appearance inside, I gave myself a confidence that this place's food should be good since there are so many people in that late night plus some of my friends recommended me this restaurant.
The menu was quite vanilla, namely you can see such menu in any Japanese restaurant. There was appetizer, entree and dessert. As a person grew up in Japan, I found the menu quite boring and unfortunately, I could not find any outstanding characteristics of this restaurant.
I had a grill of saury and katsudon which is a pork frit on rice. Both dish had bit of problems in terms of their taste and how they are cooked.
First, the saury grill was not fresh AT ALL. It came with guts, which I believe is quite common way to eat saury in Japan. However, if the fish is fresh, the guts should have a taste of bitterness and sweetness. In comparison, old saury gut tastes just strong bitter. Unfortunately, what I tasted was only bitterness, not sweetness or good fish flavor at all. The usual way to grill non-fresh saury is to remove all guts, because grilling the old fish with guts will make the edible part of fish smell and taste horrible. I was quite disappointed with my experience at that point.
Secondly, the katsudon was so thin and way over salted that there is barely no flavor of pork. The way they make katsudon did not impress me. Trust me, you do not want to eat a katsu (fried pork with panko) without any crunchy texture with it. The katsu was so small and thin, plus there was a wired flavor with it. I guess the flavor come from the sauce they use, but I do not have any idea what they use because I have never tasted a katsu like that. The egg with katsu was overcooked and over-salted. I highly doubt that this is done by a experienced chef. The miso soup was sour which is quite wired and not tasteful.
In my opinion, I think this place is good for people who have no experience with Japanese food, however, personally I would not recommend this place to my friend.
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