MUSASHI JAPANESE CUISINE / Milford

go — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:35:22 +0000

At MUSASHI JAPANESE CUISINE, provide a variety of foods prepared using the grace given to us by the earth.
Menu consists of traditional meals as well as MUSASHI originals that you can only find here.
With such a great selection of moderately priced food and alcohol, navigating the menu could be tricky. Thankfully, Musashi has made the task as simple as possible by including both pictures and a brief description of each meal. The diversity of dishes is definitely this restaurant’s strong point.

Customer favourites jostle for your attention – tempura, sushi, nigiri-zushi, sashimi, takoyaki, and a highly recommended katsuni (pork cutlet cooked with eggs and sweet soy sauce). It’s best to share dishes and order widely. There are some novelties: definitely worth trying are the paper pot meals, which are cooked on what you’d normally use for a clay pot meal (which Musashi also does). There are also most popular Chicken Miso Katsu (deep fried chicken with original miso sauce), and an artistically arranged Dragon Roll (made with eel, rice, cucumber and avocado). At times, Musashi overflows with customers – especially on Friday or Saturday nights – so it’s not always the easiest place to have a quiet conversation. Having said this, popularity would indicate that the food is very, very good.

Make sure you book.

Ramen TAKARA

go — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:05:35 +0000

As luck would have it – another Japanese eatery on the North Shore ! This time in Anzac Road, Browns Bay.
Takara Ramen cooks nine different styles of ramen, but this is only 50% of their menu.
The other nine dishes are a variety of set meals. All ingredients used are of the utmost freshness. Takara make their own noodles every day with fl our, mineral water and free range eggs. There are two different kinds of noodle, either straight and thin, or thick and curly.
Ramen to check out : Jah-Jah ramen (a pork mince sauce with pickled ginger and cucumber), Moyashi ramen (with bean sprouts and lots of vegetables), and Wonton ramen. Char-Shu style (pork slices with boiled egg) features both as a ramen, and also as a dish served with rice. The odd man out is a yakisoba (soba noodles fried crisp), Kaisen Age, served with a rich seafood and vegetable sauce. On the other half of the menu, check out the karaage set (fried chicken), the teriyaki chicken set, and the gyoza set (dumplings). There is also a Japanese old time favourite (originally a famed dish from Sichuan province in China), Ma-Bo-Dofu : tofu cooked in a spicy pork mince sauce.

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MUSASHI JAPANESE CUISINE / Milford

Ramen TAKARA