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| - Ichigo Ichie has two floors, the basement level only offers Ichigo's menu while the main floor has both Yokato and Ichigo's menus. Thus, you can order ramen and appetizers from Yokato and other Izakaya food from Ichigo. I actually prefer the main floor because I get to order the karaage and gobo from Yokato (I didn't quite like the ones from Ichigo and I will explain later).
During our first visit, we asked the waiter if they take reservations and he said no, both Yokato Yokabai and Ichigo Ichie are under the same system: no reservation. However, once we got there this time, the waiter asked us if we had any reservation... We were quite confused to be honest... My best advice is to get there when they open (5:30 pm) in order to not get caught up in lines! The restaurant gets fill up quickly on the weekend.
We ordered the simmered duck, jumbo shrimp tempura, stone grilled steak, kushimori, karaage, gobo and Yarai style grilled squid.
The simmered duck had an interesting presentation. The waitress told me to get my camera (well phone) ready because the smoke disappears very quickly once she removes the cover! The duck breast was really yummy and tender. It is mixed inside a yuzu sauce and there is a spicy sauce outside the bowl that I didn't try because I don't eat spicy. But I find it overpriced for 5 small pieces of duck meat slices..
The jumbo shrimp tempura came with two jumbo shrimps and it was good (but the other time, the shrimps were chewier, I guess fresher). I liked how the shrimps were well-fried (but not over-fried) and the sauce went well with it. It also came with two shishito peppers.
The stone grilled steak's meat was well-seasoned. However, the meat was definitely not steak meat.. It was short ribs (which I like) but I find the menu to be misleading. The stone was not hot enough for two rounds of "steak" grilling (but you can ask the waiter to re-heat it). The experience of stone grilling was fun but I wouldn't order this again if I go back.
The kushimori came with 7 skewers: shishito pepper skewer, chicken gizzard skewer, chicken thigh skewer, chicken and leek skewer, Japanese sausage, pork belly skewer and bacon wrapped asparagus skewer. My favorite ones were the chicken gizzard and pork belly skewers.
-The shishito peppers were not spicy (yay!)
-The chicken gizzards were grilled to perfection! They weren't hard at all. I loved the texture of it. We ordered another chicken gizzard skewers afterwards because 1 skewer wasn't enough!
-The chicken thighs were tender and flavorful, it was pretty good.
-The chicken and leek was good but nothing special about it I find.
-The Japanese sausage was a big round sausage (looked like crab cake). I don't know what it contains because everything was chopped and all mixed-up. It was good but not "wow wow".
-The pork belly was very fat this time. Despite looking all fat, the pork belly's fat wasn't disgusting, it was actually quite chewy! I hate when the fat "oil" explodes inside your mouth or when the texture of it is soft and tender... If I had to eat the fat, I prefer when the texture is "chewy" and not soft..
-The bacon wrapped asparagus is pretty much self-explanatory.
The karaage from Ichigo came with wasabi-mayonnaise sauce on the side. The chicken were crispyly fried but not too dry. But I prefer Yokato Yokabai's karaage because theirs is juicier and less dry since they added a yuzu-lemon ish sauce on top of the chickens.
Yokato's gobo came with a homemade mayonnaise sauce but at Ichigo Ichie, you only have 3 choices of seasoning: spicy, corn chowder or barbecue. Our waitress told us the spicy seasoning is like Yokato's gobo, so we picked that one. It is not spicy at all (trust me, I can't eat spicy). Ichigo's gobo just doesn't have the mayonnaise sauce, but it was still very good! Actually, you can eat it without the sauce and it is still delicious.
The Yarai style grilled squid was my mom's favorite dish. I remember it had a strong charcoal taste which made the squid really tasty. The tentacles were my favorite parts because they were a little bit crispy but not burnt!
One thing that I find it weird was the ice cream. My godparents ordered ice cream and this time, it came with a waffle cookie (which tasted like fortune cookies). The last time we ordered, we didn't get the waffle cookie nor the pocky sticks... Normally, Yokato's ice cream comes with pocky sticks and Ichigo's comes with the waffle cookie... How come last time, we got nothing but the ice cream scoop...
Our waiter was attentive and constantly filling up our cups with tea. He also emptied our plates very quickly too. Sometimes, when we had a few pieces left on the plate, he would ask us if we were done, which I didn't like because it felt like he was rushing us to finish our dishes...
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