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2012-07-11
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For more reviews with photos, please see http://thehungrybunnie.blogspot.com/2011/03/en-dining-japanese-bar-river-valley.htmlWe had high expectations for dinner, having had a very good meal at Z'en, their sister restaurant. We should have tampered our expectations way low, as there were more misses than hits. We had:1) Tsukune ($9) - skewers of grilled chicken meatball with egg yolk. Some kind of herb or raw celery was added, which threw the taste of the meatball off2) Enoki Bacon ($7) skewers o
We had high expectations for dinner, having had a very good meal at Z'en, their sister restaurant. We should have tampered our expectations way low, as there were more misses than hits.
We had:
1) Tsukune ($9) - skewers of grilled chicken meatball with egg yolk. Some kind of herb or raw celery was added, which threw the taste of the meatball off
2) Enoki Bacon ($7) skewers of grilled enoki mushrooms wrapped with bacon - nice but really quite idiot-proof. A very simple dish of the winning combination of delicate golden mushrooms and fatty salty decadent bacon.
3) Shitake Nikuzume ($7.50) one of the few nice dishes, skewers of grilled shitake mushroom with minced chicken, fat juicy mushrooms stuffed with freshly ground chicken, seasoned with a quick brush of teriyaki sauce
4) Yose Tofu ($9.80) handmade silky sweet tofu served with soy sauce - I thought the tofu could have been softer and silker, this had a very thick semi-hard texture that I didn't like
5) Soft Shell Crab Temaki ($6) - fairly alright but ordinary. We didn't take to the mayonnaise in the handroll. Even with the 50% discount on the handroll, this was still really pricey and not worth the discounted $3 pricetag
6) Yaki Udon ($11) stir fried noodles with pork and vegetable was waaaay too sweet. I expected a savoury dish, but this turned out ridiculously sweet
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