Haru Haru #315

Being a parent means that you have to spend time adequately equipping your kids to cope out there in the big world.  You ensure they know all the important quotes in The Castle, that they are familiar with most of the footy songs and they can use chopsticks without embarrassing themselves.

Hence, we start off our dinner at this "Modern Korean and Japanese Cuisine" with Mark giving Lisa and Sally a lesson in using chopsticks.  Matt misses out on this life lesson because he is at a refugee camp being a leader.  He is probably learning something a little more important - like how lucky he is.

Anyway, back to the chopsticks.  Mark has picked the correct restaurant to teach this particular skill because he has plenty of time to do it.  The service is slow.  Slow to get the menu and, once we have ordered, slow to get our meals.  The menu features pictures (oh no) and starts at dish number 41.  Not sure what has happened to the first 40 dishes. 

We order edamame, pork gyoza, a large sashimi as entrees and then for mains we have salmon steak, chicken teryaki and Hot Pot Binumbab with Beef.

We then waited and waited.  Once the chopstick lesson had ended we spent the time calculating how many sporting things we do between the 5 of us.  We added it up and worked out there are 40 things we do each week.  No wonder we are always exhausted and hungry.

Finally our entrees appear.  The girls pronounce the gyoza as "ok", I pronounce the edamame as stringy and the sashimi features only tuna and salmon so Mark misses out on his kingfish fix.  Not impressed.

The girls are doing well with their chopsticks.

The Hot Pot (pictured) is smokey, crunchy and not too spicy for the kids. 

All up, the restaurant was OK however, there are better Japanese restaurants along Glenhuntly Rd.