11 Apr

I finally made it to Rice Workshop after wanting to try it before it even opened. Marketed as a rice bar, their main offerings are rice bowls with various toppings (beef, chicken, curry and salmon), however, they also do a few udon and salad dishes. You can pick other sides to go with your meal including miso soup, takoyaki, edamame, karaage, spring rolls, tempura and daifuku. These are kept in a warm cabinet and a chilled cabinet between the ordering station and the cashier. There's also a complete DIY...

13:18 / Food / Japanese / Melbourne CBD / Restaurants / Rice Workshop
01 May

Heirloom is quite a modern and snazzy restaurant/bar on Bourke St, right opposite the tramstop between Russell and Exhibition St. I came for a late lunch and was told the daily lunch special ($14.5) had sold out, which was fine; I had planned to have the chirashi zuchi and udon set ($22.5).   The serving size was larger than I expected, which is always good, though I immediately regretted eating that persimmon for morning tea. The set included: daikon salad w. soy/sesame oil sauce, (quite a generous serve of) salted...

16:05 / Food / Heirloom / Japanese / Melbourne CBD / Restaurants
26 Apr

This visit was with mum, who ordered the spicy pork dosirak. I went with kimchi udon. I can't remember which one was $11 and which was $13. [caption id="attachment_3397" align="aligncenter" width="1417"] Spicy Pork Dosirak[/caption]   The dosirak came with finger food, similar to what was in my ddokbokki the other time, as well as salad and a slice of orange and canned peach. I quite enjoyed the texture and chew of the udon noodles. I haven't had udon like that for a while.   Seoul Soul 323 Victoria St Abbotsford, VIC, 3067 0478 768 760 http://www.seoulsoul.com.au/ ...

13:44 / Abbotsford / Food / Korean / Restaurants / Seoul Soul
12 Nov

I'd heard that the udon served at Nama Nama are handmade and have been wanting to visit for a while. I chose the pork udon, whilst mum had a bento. The udon noodles, while not as good as they are in Japan, were smooth and slightly chewy. I was surprised that the quail egg was slightly runny, meaning they used fresh eggs rather than canned ones. The components mum picked for her bento were: Cabbage and daikon with ponzu mayo, kingfish sahimi, grilled eel onigiri, pork neck roll with sake miso...

22:57 / Food / Japanese / Melbourne CBD / Nama Nama / Restaurants
15 Jun

To celebrate the end of exams we headed out to Kenji - a Japanese restaurant mum has been wanting to try for ages. We decided to share nasu dengaku, agedashi tofu, a dragon roll and a platter of sushi and sashimi. I've not eaten agedashi tofu in Japan, so I'm not exactly sure what it's supposed to be like, but this one wasn't that wonderful. Similar to the agedashi tofu at Japas, it wasn't very smooth, the crumb wasn't crispy and there was a lot of sauce, which made...

23:06 / Camberwell / Food / Japanese / Kenji / Restaurants
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