We decided to head over to Man Man for lunch today, as we heard that the restaurant is far less crowded on weekdays than on weekends! Indeed, the shop was less than half-full, although the restaurant still indicated that there was a dine-in time limit of 40 minutes??

We ordered the standard hitsumabushi set, which came with pickles, seaweed miso soup, a very generous serving of condiments (seaweed, spring onions and wasabi), a container of dashi soup stock and of course, a bowl of rice topped with really well-grilled unagi! The unagi was awesome as the exterior was really crispy and yet it was only lightly charred; on the other hand, the eel meat was soft and pretty sweet from the marinade. 😋

The restaurant staff will suggest to eat it in 3 ways: (1) eating the unagi and rice as it is, (2) adding the seaweed, spring onions and wasabi to the unagi rice bowl before eating and (3) pouring the dashi broth into the rice bowl to create something akin to a porridge mixture, before eating it with the unagi. (3) was really interesting and the broth was light and yet after mixing it with the rice and eel, it became somewhat sweeter! You may wish to use the extra bowl for method (3), in case it turns out that you are not a fan of the dashi broth!

For such an excellent bowl of unagi with rice, it certainly does not come cheap and you should expect to pay around $35++ for the entire set! That being said, lunch here was certainly excellent! 😋

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