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| - Dinner tonight. I've been wanting to try Yusho since I first heard about it a couple of months ago. 'Street food'-style Japanese dishes are something I've been wanting to try.
Octopus: like others have said, it doesn't really look grilled. But it's GOOD. Hard to describe--cooked tentacles, green beans, and what I thought was noodles in a creamy sauce must have been the enoki and egg yolk. Of the categories of dishes on the menu, though, 'grilled' matches best.
Chicken skin: I didn't know what to make of this at first. It doesn't look like skin--flat chips shiny with honey and covered in bits of what I think were roasted garlic. By itself, I mainly got the taste of the mustard and honey, but it really went well with the other dishes, which brought out the crispy skin flavor.
(That's something I noticed--the dishes there really shone when they were eaten together--the dishes I had complemented each other nicely.)
Japanese Griddle Cake--okonomiyaki--this was my first time having this anywhere, though I'd read about it before. Described as a "stuffed pancake", I've thought of it as egg foo yung made with pancake batter instead of egg. As street food in Japan, you can get it with an assortment of ingredients. Here, you get all the ingredients. Kind of messy, but good that way. The cake was nice and light. The menu says "squid, papaya, basil". There were also a lot of bean sprouts, and I tasted something anise-y. I enjoyed it, but a couple of bites had a rather acrid herb in them. No idea what it was--kind of like biting a houseplant. But other than those two bites I really liked it.
House pickles--good variety of vegetables--lotus root, carrots, burdock, cucumber, probably others I didn't catch. It went well with the chicken skin.
I also had their special--rocky mountain oysters. Battered, fried, and sauced, served with a celery root salad on the side. The plate surprised me--they were smaller than I expected (small grape size). Soft and very mild tasting. Their flavor was kind of buried by the flavors of the other components--the batter, the sauce, and the salad.
In all, I really enjoyed my meal. I'd increase the price range to '$$$', though. The individual dishes are reasonably priced, but they're all small plates, and you'll want a minimum of three or four for a meal. That adds up. My meal (no alcohol) came to $60.
The one thing I didn't care for was the music blaring from the overhead speakers--too loud for me.
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