Nuts Chan... Guess what this is? Is it a brand of peanuts? Or a man called Chan who is crazy? No... it's a restaurant name! Gaz suggested this place yesterday. I thought he was pulling my leg, but it really existed! OK, now guess what sort of food this restaurant serve..... it's Japanese!! Hmm...
At the restaurant, I ordered an oyako don, Gaz had their deluxe bento consisting of miso soup, beef stir fried with ginger sauce, 6 slices of sashimi, and katsu chicken. We ordered crab croquette as entree (deep fried mashed crab meat with potatoes). My food came taste challenged. I dumped half a bottle of the Japanese chilli pepper flakes on my dish, but it was still very bland. I ordered another entree sized sashimi instead. The fish slices came in generous thick slices, but there is a little fishy aftertaste with the salmon.
While we were having our dinner, a Japanese salaryman (Gaz's term, not mine) came and sat at the table next to ours. He ordered in Japanese, and we were awed that a Japanese had come to the restaurant. It means the food must be authentic and good right? (Except my oyako don was very the tasteless....) He got the royal treatment... he had a BIGger pot of tea than us (I bet he had more tea leaves in his pot too! We had barely any in ours), and he was soon brought a bowl of something which looked like sashimi and tofu on top of rice. We wondered if that was really what locals ate in Japan. We must be ordering the wrong thing!
Whatever he had, he looked like he enjoyed it so much. He slurped and finished the whole bowl of rice while I looked on and wondered what went wrong with mine.
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