Matsuri

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This is the penultimate restaurant in my Top 50. This place has been here for a very long time. I went here while learning Japanese in high school.

Beef Sashimi
9/10

The beef sashimi is served with ponzu sauce.

Apparently most people are put off by the idea of beef sashimi. I'm put off too. :) it's highly recommended, however.

I wasn't expecting to like this.

The beef is lightly cooked on the outside, and "sashimi" on the inside. It doesn't have the strong unusual taste or texture I expected, and soaks up the tasty soy and peanut sauce from the plate. There's too much spring onion here, but I can ignore it. A little bit adds some zest to the meat, and the creamy stuff has a nice tang to it.

All the tastes here are really well done. There's nothing overpowering or off, and that's unexpected for a plate with so many strong ingredients.

Banana parfait
5/10

Fresh banana, ice cream, caramel & choc sauce.

I'm not usually a fan of Asian desserts. They're often only slightly sweeter versions of a main course, or they're some bizarre partly-Western creation. We'll see how this one goes. :)

This is a bowl of ice cream. It has cream and topping, plus some chopped banana, and a Bi-Lo wafer biscuit. There's nothing wrong with this, but it's like they're not even trying.

After such a good main course, this very average dessert seems even worse than it really is.

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