Japanese food isn't something I regularly think - shit son, I really must have me some Japanese food PRONTO. I like Asian flavours, but tend to gravitate towards dim sum or Thai. This for me was an initiation into Japanese cuisine.
And I couldn't have been more pleased.
This is sleek Japanese at its prime:
For delicious food, there was a delicious price: £8.50 got me a set menu which was extremely good value for money. Firstly was a miso soup - again not something I would ever really hanker after but was suprisingly full of flavour. So much so that I inhaled it before remembering to photograph the evidence. Oops. Spring onions made it have an acidic bite, whilst the tofu (something I had never eaten before!) was silky smooth.
I took a bit of a gamble seeing as how I have never eaten tofu before of punting for the Teriyaki tofu rice salad as my main course:
The sticky rice was, well, sticky rice. But great sticky rice. It stuck and held together, but you could still make out individual grains - it wasn't a stodgy mush of white gunk, put it that way.
And I think I need to go on a Japanese salad making course because the accompanying salad was just out of this world. Zingy, zesty and with a fantastic mixture of textures - crunch, wet dressing and just fresh leaves. I mean as much as one can rave about a side salad, I'm raving about it.
All in all, a success. I think what I like about Japanese cooking is that it is so fresh. It is light, not stodgy. It is healthy. And at Curry Ono, it is bloody cheap - as well as being delicious.