So I’ve been here 3 times, and I agree with online reviews that this is a hideously overpriced Japanese restaurant, but the food is so beautifully good that the cost is justified. I really like the fact that it’s two restaurants in one as well. It’s no ordinary noodle/ramen/sushi shop – instead they do soba and okonomiyaki. Mmmmmmm

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Delicious tuna tataki with a really addictive honey mustardy type sauce! It was a little inconsistent though, this shot being taken from the first time I visited. When I went back today it wasn’t as spectacular.

PONCAKE! I can’t remember which Okonomiyaki this was but it was tasty.

I’ve found that asian style duck is always well done, as opposed to a medium to medium-rare that western style does. Still yummy regardless!

Bonito tataki. I was curious as to how this would turn out, since I don’t associate raw with bonito. It was okay but not as great as the traditional sashimi fish.

Asparagus in bacon/pancetta. When I showed this to my brother he said it was rather french. But it seems that when japanese chooses to fuse with western, it chooses french!

Scallops in garlic butter and wasabi mayo. Turns out the mayo isn’t very wasabi, which was good for me :)

One of their soba specials. It seems to be a rotation of different flavoured sobas, this being a lemon, orange and plain soba with chicken and mushroom broth. The one my dad had today was seven spice chilli, green tea and plain, but they ran out of green tea. However, I tried a little bit of the spicy one and it was surprising and impressive, it left a nice tingly sensation on my tongue which was really cool. Turns out the duck and mushroom soba just uses the duck entree so it was a little disappointing. My brother had a curry soba which was incredible, if I ever go back that’s what I’m ordering!

My mum got something different, this was fried “bird’s nest” soba. Very cool looking.

Anmitsu, a japanese fruit, red bean, jelly and mochi dessert in a sugar syrup. One of my favourites because of the variety in here, and how fruity and light it is.

This was cool, an ice cream tempura. Fried ice cream! In choux pastry! With berries and fruit and stuff!

This was simple but surprisingly tasty. A soba crepe with fuji applies, strawberries and chocolate, and a very nice vanilla and mint sorbet. That sorbet. SORBET YUMMY.

Aaaand there was also a plum “affogato” that I ordered. Wow plum wine is strong. I remember the first time I had a whole glass of plum wine, I promptly blacked out and had to crash at a friend’s place. This time I only had a shot and I got woozy XD. It wasn’t technically an affogato since it had no coffee, but it did have the vanilla ice cream. It also had plum wine jelly and some crunchy fried pastry chip things. Very nice.

I love it, but it’s expensive. But oh so good.

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I think I will also go back to cheapo Palmolive body wash rather than Lush/Aesop. I think Lush is attracting ants in the bathroom, and Aesop is simply pushing my hygene budget limit.

Wooooooooozy