Gyu Kaku Review

My friend wanted to try this place so we finally decided to go. It's a Japanese BBQ restaurant. They have happy hours and all day happy hour on Mondays. Yes, we picked a Monday. Not every item on the menu are happy hour price, I wish it was. The place got ok busy after a bit.

When I got in, I see a bunch of waitress, waiter at the door. No-one said anything and then this waiter suddenly looked at me and yelled out welcome or something in Japanese and everyone else did. I told the waitress that my friend is here already but she was like huh? I'm like... then the waiter that yelled out welcome first said he thinks he know who my friend is and took me somewhere. He took me to the wrong person lol but very nice of him. I almost met a new friend. =D

The place felt like a maze to me, when you walk in you can't really see much because there are these fence like stuff right infront. It's hard to find your friends.

We ordered the spicy tuna volcano ($6.50), beef garlic noodle ($8), bistro hanger steak ($7.50) and pork belly ($4). The portion were quite small in my opinion for that price.

The spicy tuna volcano was a deep fried rice topped with spicy tuna. I thought it was pretty cool but it wasn't that spicy to me. For the price, it costs $2 something per piece.

 

The beef garlic noodle, I think those were udon. I thought it was well flavoured, very garlic. Not much beef though, at least I don't really remember seeing or eating much.

 

The bistro hanger steak, not bad but it had a lot of tendon or whatever you call it so it was really hard to pull it apart. It taste good without any sauce. Same with the pork belly, it's good without the sauce too. The pork belly was easy to chew not like some places I have been too.

 

There were 3 types of sauce, spicy, sweet and sour. I personally liked spicy and sweet. I dislike the sour. I think the waiter said it was yuzu?

 

And guess what? My friend paid for me again... THANKS! So funny, I told the waiter to split the bill and charge my friend's portion only, he didn't listen to me. =( He didn't want my money lol.

No, don't think I will come back, a bit pricey. I do want to try one of their virgin cocktail - Cinderella, oh well.