Birthday meals

Si celebrated a significant birhday this week.

(wagu beef was tender and nice just not enough)


We had dinner at Yoshii Japanese restaurant in The Rocks on Friday. It wasn't a meal worth $250. Besides food, mood, service, and surroundings also each play an important part in how good an eating experience is. We should probably cancel the dinner reservation as we both still had the cold then. The first impression wasn't great either when we asked to have the sushi omasake menu but was told we had to sit at the sushi bar for that. The setting was ordinary, plus it was the wrong style of restaurant to dine on a hungry Friday night. Food came out very slowly and the portion very small. Degustation didn't really suit us that night. Over half way through the meal, we were still very hungry. Hubbie saw that his next course had soba noodles. He was pleased that he would at last have some real food. We were looking for the soba noodles when the dish came out. Ha ha it was a couple of noodles chopped up and hidden inside 2 small scallops. It was the funniest part of the night. We wanted simple, tasty food on the night but we both found the food, though nice-tasting, to be too pretentious. I would prefer a smaller crab claw as a course than a spoonful of liquidised crab soup. It was decidedly very disappointing and we couldn't work out why it was a two-hatted restaurant. Sushi-e (a one-hatted restaurant) in our opinion is way superior. It might be different if we had the sushi menu, but unfortunately we won't be coming back to try that. We had nicer degustation meals and Japanese elsewhere.

(Sushi at the end (almost 3 hours into the meal) was nice and satisfied our hunger a little)


On the actual birthday night, Mother-in-law cooked a rolled pork fillet roast. It was delicious!! A nice satisfying winter meal. Thanks to them too for looking after Lara so we could go out.