New International Students: Ginza Teppanyaki

Friday, October 10, 2014

Ginza Teppanyaki

As part of RNIS's Healthy Living month
Note: RNIS went with Liven.
RNIS bought the deal on Groupon

Ginza Teppanyaki is in the heart of the city and its in Chinatown. Ginza Teppanyaki has been around for a while now but they have been opened just for dinner. I walked past this place several times but they always seem expensive. They also have some not so nice reviews on Urbanspoon.

They had wanted to open for a weekday lunch for some time now and it is with this deal for $20 that I went in. The guys from Liven wanted to meet us and we had a lovely time with them.

The meal was small for $20 but I didn't mind. In fact we are learning about healthy eating and portion sizes.

To start off with there was miso soup and tea. It was real Japanese green tea with a bit of brown rice in there. I thought it was genmacha and it was. The miso soup was a little bit powdery.

I love the way how the napkin is folded

Ingredients for the teppanyaki

Wines on offer

The chef then explains the dipping sauces. We were asked if we wanted chilli sauce. Which we did and we got siricha sauce.

Rockling fish (top), sauces (bottom)

Fried rice

Then there was the fried rice. It wasn't really fried but more steamed. I didn't mind so much but they should say that its steamed rice with veg and egg. On that note there wasn't a whole lot of vegetables.

But there was a lot of chicken pieces and the lady from Liven enjoyed her steak. I really enjoyed my fish and my squid, but I don't think that the squid was cut properly and the fish was a little hard to eat with chopsticks.

At the end we both got ice cream- a green tea one and a vanilla one. The vanilla one wasn't too bad but I preferred the green tea one any day. Just because this was done with matcha and was really nice. This one for three scoops was $7.