In Search of the Perfect Gyudon: A Weak Karate Kick

Too many Japanese fast food joints have sprung up recently, and though it has brought Japanese food closer to people, some quality has evidently suffered... Enter: the Karate Kid Japanese fast food.  Its take on the sacred beef bowl, the Gyudon, however, amounts to only a very weak karate kick.

                                                         Although priced attractively at only under a hundred bucks, their dish wants in taste, and well, a good karate kick! The rice serving is good, but the good things end there... The rice itself masquerades as Japanese rice, for it's not too glutinous... The sauce is too salty, and the beef slices, though tender, does not pack a punch in its taste... In fact, you could hardly taste the beef at all!  An attempt is made though, to enhance the taste with a good mix of white and green onions and juicy slices of shitake mushrooms, along with a dash of egg yolk.

But then, gyudon is all about the beef and the sauce...  Overall, with its attractively low price, the Karate Kid version should suffice for your hunger, but fails to give a good flying kick to your palate, and fails further to give a bang for your buck.

Gyudon Beef Bowl

P97 per serving

Karate Kid

SM Dasmarinas, Cavite

Rating: 2 stars =(

(originally posted on March 22, 2008 in http://volvox23.multiply.com/reviews/item/6)