Oriental Dinner at Wagamama

Over the last weekend, we went out for a celebratory dinner to Wagamama.

Although Mr D has dined at the Wagamama in the UAE several times , this was his first visit to the Bahrain branch and my first ever visit to this particular restaurant.

What we learnt from the server there was that Wagamama brings to your plate or bowl most of the Asian cuisines-and is mainly inspired by the Japanese cuisine. What was a surprise to us was that the restaurant is UK based chain of restaurants and has nothing to do from a business point of view with Asia. Interesting. Lol.

Their menu was definitely impressive. A rather notable fact for my Vegetarian readers; is that there seemed to be equally enough of green-options for green lovers.

The staff were very helpful and explained our options to us;clearly.. they knew what they were serving and were able to enlighten us.

I knew Mr D had his eyes on the curries section of the menu, and went along the recommendation of our server for the Kareraisu Beef. This is a red curry, with stir fried strips of beef, beans, aubergine and tea-stained  fried  egg served with steamed rice. Despite the red chilies being visible, the spice level was safe to say on the lower side.

Eating this curry and hot and steaming rice, gave me that warm and fuzzy feeling.

My sister and I share a love for noodles; we decided to try the Chicken + Prawn Yaki Soba minus the Prawn from the Teppanyaki section. They were kind enough to replace the Prawn with more Chicken for us.  So this was basically stir-fried soba noodles (‘Soba’ –Japanese for Buckwheat noodles), with chicken, egg and veggies, garnished with pickled ginger shreds. Happy to say, we wiped our plate clean, found no greasy noodles, and the veggies crunch remained intact.

Mum, tried the Chicken+Prawn Cha Han Donburi from the DonBuri section of the menu. This consisted of a very homely bowl of stir fried brown rice with chicken and prawns, mushrooms, corn , egg served with Japanese pickles, which mum devoured needless to say.

And Dad trusted the Chef and ordered the special, which in one word means Omakase in Japanese. He tried the -Thai Green Kare ( Chicken), which came with steamed rice. This happened to be the last one dish I tasted, and boy did I feel the kick out of the chilies in this curry. Just when you begin to feel that this is the same old Thai Green Curry, it decides to prove you wrong.

This post would be incomplete if I didn’t mention that they took hardly any time to serve us. I am definitely going to be visiting Wagamama again, and this time may be go old school and try out their Ramen and their Fresh Fruit juices, which BTW everyone is totally raving about.

Our total bill amounted to BHD23.8/- for 5 pax.

Photo Courtesy: Mr D
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