Food is rather pretentious. If Japanese/Filipino fusion is your thing this is the place to go.
Dined here with my cousin and my 1yr old nephew, the Sunday after Christmas. Having a child in tow didn't stop us from venturing into fine dining for the evening.
Our meal started with shrimp & pork lumpia served with sweet chili sauce, the flavors reminiscent to Filipino style home-made lumpia rolls with a heavier price tag. There's no set guidelines to good lumpia making it rather subjective from household to household. In short, it was good lumpia.
The second dish: Hokkaido Sea Scallops came out salty! Thoroughly disappointed. The texture of scallops was spot on but failed in execution, good grief whoever worked our plate needs to lay off the salt.
The final plate before we eventually got fed up, the Striped Sea Bass, was tender, not flaky nor overdone, was accompanied by a similar steamed fish sauce prominent in Chinese style preparations (specifically Guangzhou if memory serves me correct). Moreover upon pondering on the closest approximation to its flavor; it would be my sister's Mother-in-Law's fish sauce...(which is absolutely divine & perfected through generations). A recipe I've coveted for a long time now.
These revelations really bummed us out, when we came to the realization that all that we consumed for the night were mediocre version of comfort food that we were raised on and easily accessible if we just had dinner at home like the rest of the family...
This is a FML moment.