With its smartly geometric red, white and black frontage and the name in orange, this modern restaurant on Waterford's bustling High Street would be hard to miss. The city's first Japanese restaurant, it opened in 2015 and got off to a flying start thanks to its good location, attractive pricing - and very tasty food. The narrow street frontage opens up to reveal a good-sized restaurant, simply decorated in the same basic colours, with lovely murals - “Japanese lady”, “Flowers” - and soft music playing in the background. Nice big plain wooden tables have a bench with cushioned seats along the wall and a separate wooden bench on the outside. Everything is very precise - each table has the menu, a lovely wooden container with their logo on it filled with lime green chop sticks, also a bottle of Kikkoman soy sauce and 2 lovely little ceramic bowls on each table. Friendly Asian staff take guests straight to the table and, recognising that they are bringing a new experience to Waterford, husband-and-wife team Maorong Zhuang and LingLing Shi include a welcoming introduction on the menu. This explains helpfully that, traditionally, there are no starters or mains in street food cuisine.
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