Eat Philippines!: Nihonbashitei

Price: ♥♥♥

Atmosphere: ♥♥♥♥

Food: ♥♥♥♥

Service: ♥♥♥♥

Overall Rating: ♥♥♥♥

Located at the corner of A. Arnaiz Avenue in Makati City, this tucked away Japanese restaurant offers imported Japanese Wagyu Beef Tenderloin Steak (150g, P1870) and US Angus Beef Tenderloin Steak (150g, P1430) among great dishes. You can save a lot of money by ordering from their deluxe set menu, so the imported meat comes with mixed vegetables, tempura, sashimi, kobachi, salad, soup, Chahan (fried rice) and coffee.

We ordered the Japanese Wagyu in the deluxe set menu. The beef was soft and tender, and there was plenty to go around for 2 so we did split just one, the picture above is half of what you would get. Remember, this is the deluxe set, so we also got tempura (it is not ebi tempura btw, which means shrimp tempura, instead we got 1 shrimp with plenty of vegetables), ice cream (instead of coffee) and soup.

The Chahan was great and smelled really good too! This went along excellent with the beef, but what really made the highlight were the sauces!

The Apple Cider sauce was my favorite, it really went well with the beef. :)

The Honey Mustard was sweet and yummy, it was her personal favourite :) I don't trust her with my beef though :p

The Garlic Sauce, err... This sauce is for the grown-ups.. It has the distinct taste of garlic, wasn't fun for me.
The atmosphere is great, you can get a private room, just try to reserve earlier; or dine outside. Usually the place is full, the day we ate was a weekday so it wasn't.

We recommend Chef Enan, he comes highly recommended by a lot of people, good service and great entertainment. He juggles the cooking utensils, and has a thing called the "helicopter egg" or something, where he spins it and tosses it up in the air, only to catch it with the side of his metal turner (flipper). The only problem we have with the service is the time we complained about the tempura, and they still insisted. The tempura we thought was going to consists of shrimp tempura, instead, we got 1 shrimp tempura mixed with lots of vegetables. We thought it would be nice if actually got some more shrimp, so that we didnt have to split one, but we didn't get our way. Other than that, everything else went great, food was quick and good.

Beware of the parking, the restaurant is two floors and the parking is very small outside, sometimes cars triple park, and it takes ages to get out... AGES!

Service charge is already included so don't tip anymore, just tip the chef. Oh and when you see him put the wine, lean back a little, apparently one customer had his eyebrows fixed for free during the exhibition.

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