Beef sukiyaki udon ($12.80)!
Monday Japanese — beef sukiyaki udon $12.80. Premium Japanese beef + udon.
Japanese lunch: beef sukiyaki udon, $12.80. 😋 Two comforting Japanese ideas in one bowl.
This is what happens when you cross sukiyaki with udon: thick, chewy udon noodles served in a sukiyaki-style broth, topped with thinly sliced beef. Sukiyaki is the Japanese hot pot where beef and vegetables are simmered in a sweet-savoury sauce of soy, mirin, sake and sugar (the “warishita”), and using that same sweet-soy broth as the base for an udon bowl makes for a deeply comforting, lightly sweet noodle soup.
The beef is the star: sliced thin so it cooks quickly and stays tender, picking up all that sweet-savoury sauce. The udon noodles are thick and slippery, soaking up the broth, while the broth itself walks that lovely sukiyaki line between sweet and salty that makes it so moreish. Often there’s a soft egg or vegetables in there too to round it out.
It’s warming, satisfying, and a nice change from the usual clear-dashi udon, that hint of sweetness makes it feel almost like comfort food. At $12.80, fair value for a hearty, well-made Japanese bowl.
Overall: 4.7 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Chewy udon and tender beef in a sweet-savoury sukiyaki broth, comforting and moreish. Would re-visit.
