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2010-07-25
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We came here for the set lunch, which includes a drink, salad and a main course for around $12. The salad was a small, simple combination of fresh lettuce, julienned carrots and corn kernels, livened up by the refreshing dressing. My Pineapple Yakult (add $2 to upgrade the free drink included in every lunch set) was served with a slice of orange. It was okay I guess... Oddly tea was only served then.Tako Satsuma Age ($5.80) is basically a crispy fish patty with octopus, and was listed as a signa
The salad was a small, simple combination of fresh lettuce, julienned carrots and corn kernels, livened up by the refreshing dressing.
My Pineapple Yakult (add $2 to upgrade the free drink included in every lunch set) was served with a slice of orange. It was okay I guess... Oddly tea was only served then.
Tako Satsuma Age ($5.80) is basically a crispy fish patty with octopus, and was listed as a signature dish on the menu. It was served with a small mound of minced ginger. There was a rather generous serving of octopus studded inside. However, it was a tad tough so I probably won't order this again.
Torinegi Teishoku ($9.80) is described on the menu to be crispy fried chicken with spicy sauce. The chicken tori was not bad-being crispy on the outside and tender inside. However it would have been even better if it was juicier. The leek slices served with the dish did the perfect job of mopping up the yummy sauce. Like the other lunch sets, this was served with a small bowl of rice, pickles and miso soup.
The Sukiyaki Teishoku ($12.80) then made its appearance. The waitress served up a metal bowl filled with a fresh assortment of vegetables, tofu and large slices of raw beef, all immersed in stock. The bowl is placed on a hotpot and is then cooked in front of you. You can control how long you want your food to be cooked. The stock was intensely flavourful and was addictive. The onion slices caramelized wonderfully inside the broth, and the leek simply melted in my mouth. The small serving of tang-oh included in the hotpot was also very delicious. The beef was pretty good, it's similar to the beef bowl from Yoshinoya- tender and chewy, full of the essence of the broth. There was also enoki, cabbage, a shitake mushroom and carrot slices.
However, after a while, one does get sick of the very sweet broth. Perhaps the chefs could cut down on the mirin? (However I may not be a good judge here as this is my first time eating sukiyaki)
The Kimchi Nabe Teishoku ($9.80) was the daily special. Similar to the beef sukiyaki, the dish came with a lot of veggies, tofu and generous pork slices, along with a mound of kimchi.
Watami's got affordable food and polite service. I'm not sure how the speed of the service is like now, but our food and drinks took a very long time to arrive during our visit there last year when they were still trying out a new PDA ordering system.
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