hi all! i’ve been updating my blog so frequently because i have nothing to do. i’ve finished my degree in november last year and worked for a few months but now i’m unemployed! oh well. i’m sure i’ll find a job eventually!
anyway, as i mentioned, this post will be about wasabi bistro at surry hills and their fail-gyu steak and how they managed to redeem themselves the second time i went. i think i should split this post into two entries.
my fiance bought two wasabi bistro vouchers for us earlier and we decided to go there for one of our special occasions. the voucher we got comes with tuna tartar, steamed gyoza, salmon tataki, tempura, choice of sushi roll, two mains with miso soup and finally two ice creams of our choice.
here’s the tuna tartar. i don’t like raw fish so my fiance had most of it. i picked out bits and pieces of potato and ate that. there’s a very generous serving of red and black caviar and i had most of that. i remember the black caviar was a lot saltier than the red one. on the other hand, there was too little sauce which is a pity because it was delicious. i’m not sure what the yellow sauce is but the brown sauce is some kind of sweet miso like sauce.
next up were the steamed gyoza. these were pretty good. we loved the sauce (soy sauce with dashi and mirin?) that comes with it.
then came the salmon tataki (seared salmon). my fiance loved these and said they were perfect. pity about the portion though. there were only 4 pieces (if i remember correctly). and once again, i didn’t have this because i don’t eat raw fish. i tried raw salmon once upon a time and absolutely hated it. i thought it was slimy. i guess i was traumatised by that incident.
the tempura! i don’t usually like battered stuff but i like tempura because of the light batter which doesn’t make me sick after two bites. the tempura was so nicely done. the dish contained a piece of prawn, eggplant (which my fiance hates), sweet potato or pumpkin (we can never tell in tempura), and some other veggies. there wasn’t enough sauce again but the waiter kindly got us some more.
we ordered the seared salmon sushi roll (dragon roll? i forgot). once again, my fiance ate most of it because of the salmon. i ate some of the rice rolls minus the avocado and cucumber.
finally, after 5 courses, my wagyu steak came. at first sight, it seemed a little cooked and i was surprised by the sauce as i like my wagyu without any sauce.
here’s what the inside of the steak looked like. i could find any traces of wagyu ‘juice’ (aka fat, grease, marbling etc). as i begin to freak out a little, i reassured myself that everything will be okay. i took one chunk of the steak and realised that the steak was over seasoned with pepper. there was absolutely no juice coming out from the meat. i thought to myself, “are you kidding me? this is definitely not wagyu!!!”. it was FAIL-GYU. i was so disappointed and gave most of my beef steak to my fiance and spent the rest of the dinner grumbling about how disappointed i was. when the ice cream came, i was feeling better because i LOVE ice cream. i ordered the green tea ice cream but was too unhappy to take a photo. after dessert, we grumbled to each other about what we were going to do about the other voucher. we bought it just for the wagyu and was utterly disappointed…
to be continued…
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