{"id":1831,"date":"2010-08-17T17:40:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2010-08-17T17:40:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:40:58","slug":"maneki-japanese-resturant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=1831","title":{"rendered":"Maneki Japanese Resturant"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had dinner at Maneki Japanese Resturant<\/a>\u00a0after our Zoo excursion. It is a popular Japanese resturant, which I found on yelp.com. Reservations needed to be\u00a0made EARLY , eg: a few days before BUT I didn’t\u00a0mk any reservations. As a result,\u00a0the earliest timing we got was 8.30pm ( although we reached the resturant at 6pm sharp) The very kind lady boss suggested that we could have our dinner at the bar area.. I was very reluctant as I did not have any intention of drinking.. BUT BH was like ‘OK!’ So we went to sit at the bar…<\/p>\n

We\u00a0had these figurines staring right at\u00a0us as we sat down\/ate<\/p>\n

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I had no idea what is the significance of these.<\/p>\n

Anyway, we ordered our food and BH ordered Asashi – the bottle was HUGE! I was kinda worried that BH won’t be able to drive us home so I told the server that we are sharing the beer.<\/p>\n

Here’s the irritating part – The server DID NOT allow me to drink the beer as I did not have my passport with me – they did don’t accept IC or SG driving license. I was super irritated and it was sooooooooooo hard to hide my anger as I was sitting at the bar\u00a0 ( No choice have to face her) So I show her face colour. In the end, she made me nice non-alcoholic cranberry juice mixed with Calpico<\/a>\u00a0Luckily, she made me a drink else I’m so gonna write a super bad review on yelp! Ok.. so I felt better after the drink.. the drink was so nice that we also bought Calpico and mixed our own at home.. haha.. perfect summer drink!!<\/p>\n

So – to the point… the food was great! It’s not because we haven’t had good Japanese food for sometime BUT the sashimi was fresh ! yums! food was authentic. However, for the oyster rice ( it has a japanese name , can’t recall) we felt that there were just too much rice and too little oysters. overall,\u00a0\u00a0we felt like we ate a whole lot and the price was reasonable!<\/p>\n

Total damage: US$48 with 20% tips<\/p>\n

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We’ll go again BUT i’ll rem to bring my passport and mk reservation EARLY\u00a0the next time round..<\/p>\n

Happy BH and semi-happy me … it would have been a better date!<\/p>\n

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We had dinner at Maneki Japanese Resturant\u00a0after our Zoo excursion. It is a popular Japanese resturant, which I found on yelp.com. Reservations needed to be\u00a0made EARLY , eg: a few days before BUT I didn’t\u00a0mk any reservations. As a result,\u00a0the earliest timing we got was 8.30pm ( although we reached the resturant at 6pm sharp) … <\/p>\n

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