The Synapse Connections of a lifetime

Just realised that I haven't updated this blog for a whole month! been bz with some studies recently, especially reading the Clinical Examination book by Tally and O'Connor. It's a good book for clinical examination skills, presented in a rather systematic way.

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Anyway, yesterday we had a nice dinner at a Japanese restaurant called Masuya located somewhere along O'Connell Street in Sydney City. The restaurant is located in the basement and has a small sign leading into it.



It was Jesselyn's birthday and our good friend Jerome planned a nice dinner there, ready to drain our pockets dry dry.. Everything except the entree and the vegetarian meals easily cost more than $15, which, granted is rather 'reasonable' for an expensive looking place.


Anyway, we ordered a combination of stuff, namely:

The Sashimi Main ($25)
The Sashimi main has an assortment of raw fish complemented with some salad stuff and a clump of wasabi (the green paste to the right) to spice things (and to kill bacteria i suppose) up. It was kinda weird at first but a good tasting meal nonetheless.

The Unaju BBQ Eel ($16.80)
This here is my favourite of all the dishes we ordered. The taste of the thin slices of fried eel is great and the rice has a very nice consistency.

We didn't had enough just yet, next up is the Agedashi Tofu ($9.80).
Although i'm not exactly a tofu type of person (except for some types), the tofu is great, deep friend and seasoned with lots of random seasoning things on top and dipped in random soy sauce.

Finally, the finale of the night, with the Sukiyaki hot pot ($22.80 per person) with extra beef added ($13.80). The Sukiyaki hot pot is Japanese hotpot concept with a combination of Grain-fed beef, shirataki (Potato jelly noodles) and seasonal vegetables cooked in a special pot with Masuya's mirin and soy based sukiyaki sauce. The cool thing about this dish is that the waitress actually sets up the hot pot on our table and starts cooking for us.

Here you can see Jon Lee looking eager to go for the food, haha! After that it's a short 5 min wait for the stuff to cook up.

Also with the dish is some udon noodles, but it's too little to be shared around though..

There's also some beaten raw eggs to use as sauce. It sounds like a weird concept but having gone pass raw fish, raw eggs are nothing special, hehe!



And that's all we ordered that night. Oh yeah, not to mention a cute drink called 'China Doll'. Was wondering why it wasn't called Japan Doll, but oh well..

And here's the birthday girl in the middle (5th from left) together with all the girls who attended. The picture of the guys are still with another camera, will be up when it's acquired.
Afterwards the rest of them went for some KTV, but i didn't join them as I had to wake up at 4am the next day. Overall, Masuya is a nice restaurant with good services but is rather costly.


Thanks for reading! :)