Comments on: Matsugen – Restaurant Week but done a la carte

By: thewanderingeater

thewanderingeater — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:35:00 +0000

Jessica: I’m not much of a pudding person. I mean, I do like pudding but not obsessed about it (like macarons). If Matsugen did have their grapefruit jelly as part of the prix fixe, then I would start moping about it.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:25:53 +0000

I went to Matsugen for RW dinner, and I thought the best part was the vanilla caramel pudding. It’s a shame you didn’t have time to try it.

By: thewanderingeater

thewanderingeater — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:59:35 +0000

amedemonet: I how can you NOT like natto?! I’ve eaten swallow’s saliva (tastes good) but not intestines yet… Thankfully my parents didn’t make me eat the latter when I was a kid.

The duck soup is one of the safer things we’ve (as in Giulia and I) eaten for this particular meal.

By: amedemonet

amedemonet — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:45:54 +0000

Natto – OMG! I eat a lot of weird things like swallow’s saliva and intestines but even I can’t like natto. It looks like melted aliens to me and smells like an incubated stinky sock (I also love the chinese stinkie tofu.) So kudos to you.

I am going to try the soba with duck soup broth, sounds more flavorful than the ususal soba broths.

By: thewanderingeater

thewanderingeater — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:55:48 +0000

joannova: Thanks. Danny: Yeah, it was a bummer. Rahul: Thanks as well. Raf: I'm just telling you and all of my readers how I experienced lunch. I didn't say it was for both Restaurant Week lunch and dinner. If Matsugen kept the Winter Promotion lunch menu, I would have been happy but I tried replicating (within my friend's budget and splitting the meal; the only thing that was from the original menu was the black cod miso) for this lunch and it worked out. Thankfully, we aren't starved women before we would've bought something after eating here.

By: Raf

Raf — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:44:30 +0000

Disagree with respect to Restaurant Week menu for Dinner. I went last night and it was full of variety and perfectly portioned. First course was Miso soup with soft tofu followed by amazingly marinated hamachi, mid was an assortment of small plates including crispy shrimp and sushi, and finally a choice between the soba you had and a mushroom broth soba. We added the braised pork belly.

All together, it was a very well designed menu with a good amount of variety. I definitely want to return to try the off-set menu items.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:34:45 +0000

I agree with Joan. You’ve a really cool eating habit and nice to see the pictures you’ve shared. Thanks and keep it rolling.

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:47:32 +0000

Ooooh, thanks for letting me know about this RW menu thing. I remember hearing about their winter promo menu from JVG’s own blog, but it’s kind of lame that they’re backing out of it during RW.

By: joan nova

joan nova — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:15:16 +0000

You got some beautiful shots.