| Comments | A small and very pleasant restaurant with excellent reasonably-priced, wonderfully fresh Japanese and Thai food. At 7PM, early for Mexican dining, the restaurant was packed. Probably for this reason, the service on this visit was a bit slow.
The meal starts with a complimentary, well-salted bowl of miso soup served with a slice of lime, which compliments the soup surprisingly well. Sometimes they serve coconut cream soup, but we've missed that both times we've been there.
The big hits of the evening were the salmon sushi rolls covered with a cilantro sauce, served warm. Also delicious were the tuna sushi rolls with cream cheese topped with fresh chopped mangos and black seaseme seeds.
Margaritas were very good with fresh lime juice, served in a martini glass. The tamarind martini was very unusual - the glass was edged in sugar with chili sauce - it added a nice warm flavor as the martini went down. We tried a complimentary sake apple martini - a very green-apple tasting martini which none of us were particularly fond of.
Here are some notes from the 2007 review:
The Thai takishi Japanese plate, pictured below, was very good - 109 pesos for green chicken curry, 10 crab/creamcheese rolls, "som tam" salad with a light rice wine dressing, 2 delicious satay chicken strips with peanut sauce, plain rice and 4 pieces of tempura, one of which was shrimp. The tempura was the only thing that wasn't excellent, being rather soggy and limp, but tasty.
The red curry pictured below was very good - pork in a medium hot-spicy sauce with a strong flavor of coconut.
Ensalada takishi, pictured below, was beautiful and excellent and consisted of raw tuna, papaya, cucumbers and avocado, was very fresh and delicious - a bargain at 44 pesos.
We tried the Thai desserts - the platanos fritos, or fried bananna desert, was much appreciated by those who tried it, six pieces of fried bananna, served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. The Thai rice with mango was reported to be very good. Both desserts were topped with crunchy dried coconut.
We weren't that impressed with the coffee (tasted somewhat like Sanka) nor the green tea.
Margaritas, 46 pesos were good, more tart than sweet. Beer selection wasn't that great, but Corona is available.
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