{"id":480,"date":"2013-03-25T06:34:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T06:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2013-04-16T06:21:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T06:21:31","slug":"izakaya-yuzuki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Izakaya Yuzuki"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had dinner at Izakaya Yuzuki <\/a>last night. It’s my third attempt at booking a table and making plans… and this time it happened! Overall, the meal was light and the dishes were interesting, but I felt like the menu wasn’t large enough and the food was unique but generally underwhelming. I ordered all the things I was interested in, but it wasn’t quite enough food, so we had to order some other dishes.<\/p>\n

\"P3232803\"<\/a>
\nDisposable chopsticks ftw. Also, they have valet parking if you ask. It’s a secret.<\/p>\n

\"P3232805\"<\/a>
\nI’m not sure I really understand this “koji” thing…<\/p>\n

\"P3232807\"<\/a>
\nHousemade tofu. Best with a pinch of salt.<\/p>\n

\"P3232808\"<\/a>
\nSeasonal veggies. From the left, yam with sesame sauce, asparagus and a slightly spicy burdock root.<\/p>\n

\"P3232811\"<\/a>
\nFirefly squid over pickled cucumber and seaweed. A little fishy, but one of my favorites of the night.<\/p>\n

\"P3232813\"<\/a>
\nBeef and tendons. Fatty and underseasoned.<\/p>\n

\"P3232814\"<\/a>
\nChicken meatball skewers. Not bad, nothing special.<\/p>\n

\"P3232817\"<\/a>
\nYuba and uni chawan mushi. I love chawan mushi. :3<\/p>\n

\"P3232819\"<\/a>
\nFried seasonal veggies. Not bad, but somehow I think it’s slightly underfried. Not as crisp as I’d expect?<\/p>\n

\"P3232821\"<\/a>
\nKaraage. I’d read about this dish and was disappointed. I’ve found better karaage without too much difficulty.<\/p>\n

\"P3232822\"<\/a>
\nAbalone sashimi. From the right, the frilly bits deep fried, liver mixed with soy and the muscle, thin sliced raw. The thin slices dipped in the liver mixture were great — the crisp raw shellfish and the rich salty sauce.<\/p>\n

\"P3232826\"<\/a>
\nSeasonal rice — clams and tobiko. I’m not sure what they did to this rice to make it special, but it was pretty good. I could see eating a bowl of this as a rice heavy meal.<\/p>\n

\"P3232828\"<\/a>
\nGinger sorbet. One of the most memorable parts of the meal — a ginger sorbet that seems barely sweetened and has the throat-attacking spice of raw ginger. Pretty awesome.<\/p>\n

Things I would order again:<\/strong>
\nFirefly squid
\nAbalone Sashimi
\nGinger sorbet
\nMaybe the chawan mushi and rice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had dinner at Izakaya Yuzuki last night. It’s my third attempt at booking a table and making plans… and this time it happened! Overall, the meal was light and the dishes were interesting, but I felt like the menu wasn’t large enough and the food was unique but generally underwhelming. I ordered all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22,27,21],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-dinner","tag-japanese","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}