I love Shoya’s lunch sets- they give you lots for a very reasonable price. As you can see we are enjoying ourselves here. Too bad that at times the food just isn’t quite up to scatch. Let’s just say, when it’s good, it’s awesome, but when it’s bad, it’s really mediocre.

Alan’s Tempura scallop and crab arrived and it looks sooooo yummie. The scallops actually wraps the quails eggs and mushroom then deep fried into a crisp, but not too oily goodness, partnered with the crab sauce and it’s dancing in my tastebuds! I don’t know whether the other cloud of deep fried goodness is actually the tempura crab, but the texture doesn’t feel like crab. Nonetheless it tasted pretty good with the sauce and Alan ate most of it so I can’t really decipher what it is (he doesn’t know either). 

Alan is a meat lover, when his highlight of the day- Wagyu beef came to him, he eagerly took a bite- and chewed and chewed and chewed. Here is the disappointment- when you see Wagyu, you automatically assumed that it’s good stuff. But if you are using the crappiest cut of the Wagyu, you’ll still be chewing your teeth off. I tried a small piece and it wasn’t as bad, you can clearly taste the yummy beef flavour that balance quite well with the sauce, but it’s still on the tough side. I would consider the larger pieces inedible but Alan ate it all.

My udon soup came also and there’s lots of spring onion and seaweed in it, which I love. The soup is a touch too salty, but the udon had the chewiness that you wouldn’t get in the foodcourt. YUM. 

Green tea icecream is good as usual, a perfect way to finish off the meal with Shoya’s green tea icecream, which just the right amount of tea flavour. Would be good if they’d give us some fruit too, but hey, approx $30 a head for some much food, what more can you ask for?