All entrees are served with rice and superb homemade black beans cooked with bacon and epazote, a distinctive Mexican herb.
The ten don, a sauce-softened mixed-tempura cake on rice, is superb – even better than the ones at Hannosuke, which I love.
Bhel poori ($3.95), a pan-India street food, is superb, a mix of puffed rice, onions, tomato and crisp little Chinese noodles with lots of cilantro; it is tangy, sweet, cool and lightly spicy all at the same time.
For sating, the superb bi bim bop, a classic Korean rice dish, does the trick.
The khao man gai (chicken and rice) and tom yum soup are superb, all for around 40 baht ($2) a dish.
The texture of the rice noodle slipped around Wagyu beef was superb, as was the tender steamed bun stuffed with meaty red char siu.
We ordered the pear ginger tart, a thin, rich wedge that was superb, and a couple of disappointingly bland mochi, Japanese rice pastries.
The menu breaks little ground, but the dishes, whether chunky sopa de pollo, grilled skirt steak or piquant chicken and rice, are generally well executed and occasionally superb.
Pungent Oriental seasonings such as soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, ginger and garlic are superb with cold steamed sea bass or other fish and shellfish such as mussels.
Noodle dishes are superb, like sauteed flat noodles with shredded pork, and soft, dense rice cakes with shreds of chicken.
