Spicy Mentaiko Don ($22.25)
*price includes svc charge & GST
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Steamed rice, chopped spicy tuna, mentaiko salmon, house-made pickles, wasabi, furikake, tare sweet sauce (think sweet teriyaki sauce)
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I wouldn’t eat anything raw prior to falling in love with @genkisushisg’s sashimi and @poketheory’s salmon poké around last year, so I thought I’m a raw 🐟 fan now but I guess it wasn’t the case.
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When I took my first bite of the tuna, I knew I made the wrong choice choosing this as my virgin Tanuki experience rather than their truffle beef gyu which I initially wanted because it was unpleasantly fishy and the texture is very fibrous 🤮 I took no more than 2 pieces of it.
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The salmon hmm I was really disappointed because it tasted not that fresh to me (I’m no fish expert but that was what I thought) and I can barely taste the mentaiko. I like my salmon to have abit of that fatty taste but this doesn’t have it.
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The only saving grace of this dish was the sweet tare sauce which they poured abit on the rice and gave it as a dipping sauce, that helped me unwillingly finish the salmon section of the bowl because I couldn’t bear to leave so much food left when I paid $20++
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Verdict: I just ordered the wrong dish... Will never order this again but would give their Jewel truffle gyu and other dishes a chance to prove why people love Tanuki the next time I go