Akashi at Paragon 12 years later...

It's been a long time since we've last eaten at Akashi at Paragon. The Japanese restaurant scene has evolved much in that time. We came here because we saw some new items they have on Oddle. Those items aren't on their dine in menu at this point but you could still order them at the higher online prices.

We ordered a bunch of stuff and didn't go omakase like the old days. The first item that was served was their fish skin truffle maki. It's okay and tasted exactly like how it looked. Would have been better if the fish skin had better crispiness. Semi interesting. I can't help but feel that it's a contemporary local thing. But outstanding it wasn't.

The next item that was served was their yakiniku wagyu maki. That's the picture from their site. Looks like it's crusted with furikake.

The real thing only had some sesame seeds. In the rice were thinly sliced gyu and onions. I couldn't tell that they were specifically wagyu. It's actually nice eaten with the onsen tamago dip. Those brown stuff with the tamago was beef jus. Rich and savoury once they were mixed up.

  

Pull the trigger to splurge on their monaka caviar. In between the wafers were minced toro, quail eggs and caviar. I don't know what kind for the latter. It's not bad but I didn't think that it was worth paying $35.80 a pop.

I've never had teriyaki lamb chops because that's not the way I thought I would like them. Akashi did pretty good teriyaki lamb chops. Was won over by the nice fatty lamb-y flavour from the meat and a respectable fragrance from sufficient char.

Didn't remember them having pork gyoza on the menu before. Their pork gyozas looked like it had an awesome crusty skin but there wasn't any crisp to the texture at all. They were a little soft. But didn't taste bad though. I kinda liked it.

Grilled sweet potato was disappointing. We were told it would take a while. We didn't wait for very long. At least not as long as how Kazu would normally make us wait. These weren't even hot when they were served. I wanted to say that they were lukewarm but they couldn't even melt butter. Didn't have the aroma from the potatoes I was expecting and wasn't very sweet to boot. #disappointment