@otoko_midtown has been going strong at Midtown for quite a few years now, and it’s been a while since I’ve dined there. While their Pork Yakiniku Don ($11.90 nett) is more expensive than I remember it, it’s as delicious as it was in my memory.⠀
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The thin slices of pork belly shabu shabu are stir fried over a strong flame to render out some of the fat and to get a solid sear on the pork. This important but oft-overlooked step adds more flavour to the pork before it gets simmered together with the sauce & sliced onions, and I’m satisfied that Otoko didn’t forget. The sauce itself is rather ordinary, possessing the usual umami sapidity from dashi & soy sauce, plus some sweetness from the mirin.⠀
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I was pleasantly surprised that they sauced up the plain short grain rice sufficiently. Really made for a better bowl of donburi. Skip the lava egg though, it’s overcooked and is more of a rock egg than a lava egg.