Taiwan Chronicle: Tonkatsu Wako

My visit: December 27, 2010

Tonkatsu Wako

5/f K Mall

Taipei Main Station

2-2311-5626

It's true that too much shopping can wear you down! We need to eat too! DH and I spent hours in Muji and Daiso. Both shops have an entire floor for themselves inside K Mall. We finally felt hungry around 8:00pm. Looking through the fake food display outside the restaurants, we settled for Tonkatsu Wako.

DH and I shared a set of big bowl of asado noodles and unagi on rice. Cost of which is only NTD250. 

it's hot!

The big bowl of noodle is good enough to share. Well, depending on how hungry you are but we were able to manage. I am not a huge fan of noodles so DH ate the most of it.

Umenoya Japanese Restaurant

My visit: December 28, 2009

Umenoya Japanese Restaurant

Unit 14 A & B Paseo de Staa. Rosa III

Don Jose, St. Rosa City, Laguna

It's our second time to dine in this restaurant. After our 2 day vacation in Canyon Cove Residential Beach Resort, My family and I went to have our lunch here before we headed home.

(l-r) Ikura PhP 67.20, salmon PhP224 (4pcs.) & Saba PhP134.40 (4pcs.)

Japanese Restaurant: Umenoya

My visit: August 22, 2009

Umenoya japanese Restaurant

Unit 14 A & B Paseo de Sta. Rosa III

Don Jose, Sta. Rosa City, Laguna

On our way to Tagaytay Highlands, we passed by Paseo de St. Rosa and decided to have lunch there. We found Umenoya at the back along with 3 or more Japanese restaurants.

We requested for a non smoking section and was quickly ushered to seat on the second floor. Since the second floor was full, we were seated in a section where the air conditioner could not reached us. An electric fan was positioned on our side. We asked to be transfered but it seems like most of the other diners were just starting their meal so we did not imposed to be seated else where.

Below is the interior of the ground floor.

interior

Here are what we have ordered:

salmon sushi PhP56@

shime saba sushi PhP33.60@

I don't eat raw, so definitely salmon is not my order. I ate the saba though. DH insisted that it was cooked. It tasted good!

tamago sashimi PhP95.20

Love the tamago plus it's cheap!

unajyu lunch PhP442.40

We did not expect the unaji to be this big since it was part of a set menu. I was thinking that maybe I should have just cancelled my order lol

tenjyu lunch PhP235.20

The food DH and I ordered were part of a set meal which included a miso soup, side salad, and two more which I don't have a name to call it. My tempura is jumbo! They don't scrimp on their serving. I am very happy with the food.

The service though faltered at the end of our meal. We waited for more than 10 minutes for the bill to come. And decided to pay directly to the cashier as we go down. It turned out that the waitress forgot to give our order slip to the cashier.

But we were such a happy diner that day because of the food.