Nikaido

LOVE this place. I start ordering a few dishes off the ipad menu. You can choose the grade of meat that you want ranging from "Beef Rib/fillet/loin, Special or Premium." On this particular night,I go for the Special Beef loin ($15.90). It's delivered to the table in a beautiful rose formation. The meat is served up with a nice balance of fat (for the taste.. oh yeah when it sizzles).We also order the pork rib ($10.90) which also comes in a rose shape.

After lining our tummies with Assorted Kimchi ($11.50) in radish, cucumber and cabbage, and seasonal vegetable sides called Namul 5 Ways ($8.50), which included blanched spinach, cucumbers, mushrooms and mung bean sprouts, we were ready to barbeque. While the defining difference between most Japanese and Korean barbeque joints is that only the latter use marination, here you’ll find they offer a very good miso sauce that’s great for getting some char on thin slices Pork Belly ($10.90/6 pieces). There’s also a special Nikaido salted sauce that’s good on pretty much everything else, particularly wafer-thin Beef Skirt ($10.90/6 pieces). Both items sing against the house yakiniku sauce, so be generous when dipping! We load up our Japanese-made gas barbeque with Assorted Vegetables ($12.90) enjoying mushrooms, green capsicum, and corn on the cob. Leaving our onion rings to get a good level of char, we try something new. Corn Butter ($5.90) presents ...read more