The restaurant is like a Japanese fast food spot. Choose your meal out of the twenty or so choices displayed over the counter, order at the cashier's, and wait for your plate to be delivered to you, if you're sitting, or to be packed for take-out.
The menu consists of various mix-and-match combinations of chicken teriyaki, salmon teriyaki, katsu don, with tempura, salad, tofu, or rice. Very simple...
And very yummy!
I ordered the chicken teriyaki with mixed tempura and fried rice. I was surprised to find that it also came with salad and a mix of vegetables with crushed soybean paste.
Can I just say that the thing was HUGE?
The tempura was delicious - one of the best I've tasted. It also came with four shrimp pieces. Usually mixed tempura comes with one, maybe two if the place is generous, but this place gave a whopping four!
A few of the chicken pieces were fatty or hard to chew, but the teriyaki sauce had the right amount of sweetness in its syrupy texture.
The salad dressing was tangy, and the fried rice was savory without being oily or heavy!
All standard Japanese bento fare, but I was intrigued by the vegetables with soybean paste. It had a kind of woody flavor which went really well with the mushrooms, and the combination felt right on the palate.
The staff was friendly as well, taking a picture of me behind the sushi bar counter (this place serves only California rolls, however), and explaining what the soybean paste was (it looked like grainy mashed potatoes), along with the meaning of Gombei (a very difficult-to-explain samurai value, apparently).
All this for just $6.75!
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Location:Sunnyvale
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