Wawa's Ramblings

We saw the menu for Waraku on their website and thought we would give this place a shot since the menu looked quite extensive. We read of the long queues at the Central branch and decided instead to head off to the branch at East Coast. Parking was ridiculously expensive at $2.50 for 1st hour. Should have parked along the service road FOC. We ordered the set lunch, the sukiyaki wazen and katsu wazen (both for $13.80 including soft drinks).

Co's katsu was okay but both of us found the miso soup very strange tasting, as it had bits of pork belly in it, resulting in an overpowering 'porky' soup. We did not like it all.

My sukiyaki was no better. It came with 4 slices of beef and an assortment of vegetables, tofu and mushrooms. The stock was cloyingly sweet and there was hardly any hint of beef flavour. The rice was also quite ordinary. It was a good thing we did not have to wait for a table even though we walked in without any reservations, otherwise we would have felt even more disgruntled with the food.

Our conclusion: The food is slightly better than Sakae Sushi or Sushi Tei, but for a few dollars more, we would rather have the set lunch at Rakuzen or Kuriya where the quality of food is far more superior. Understandably, this may be a casual Japanese restaurant with moderate prices but the food we sampled today fell short of expectations. This would probably be our first and last visit to Waraku.

Labels: japanese food