Kei Kaisendon Signature & Mentaiyaki Kaisendon & Tamago Mentai & Salad & Miso Soup (Burpple Beyond: $25.90)!
A Japanese spread at Kei: a signature kaisendon and a torched mentaiyaki kaisendon, with tamago mentai, salads and miso soups. $25.90 on Burpple Beyond.
A generous Japanese lunch with BB at Kei, made great value by Burpple Beyond 1-for-1: the Kei Kaisendon Signature, a Mentaiyaki Kaisendon, Tamago Mentai, plus salads and miso soups, all for $25.90. 😋
What we had:
- Kei Kaisendon Signature: a seafood rice bowl topped with fresh salmon, tuna and white-fish sashimi, with wasabi and shiso
- Mentaiyaki Kaisendon: a chirashi bowl finished with torched mentaiko (spicy cod roe) and tobiko
- Tamago Mentai: grilled tamago topped with mentaiko
- Two salads and two miso soups
Kaisendon means “seafood rice bowl”, and getting two different ones let us cover both ends. The signature bowl was all about freshness: thick, clean slices of salmon, tuna and white fish fanned over sushi rice, the kind of bowl you eat with a dab of wasabi and a happy sigh.
The mentaiyaki version was the indulgent one. Torching the mentaiko on top gives it a smoky, creamy, slightly charred richness that seeps into the rice and seafood, a totally different, more savoury experience. The tamago mentai doubled down on that, sweet grilled egg with a savoury roe topping.
With the salads and miso soups rounding it out, this was a proper, varied Japanese meal. At $25.90 for the whole spread on the deal, excellent value.
Overall: 4.7 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Fresh sashimi chirashi and a rich torched-mentaiko bowl, a varied and generous Japanese spread. Would re-do.
