At first glance, Masaka on K Road is fantastic. It's cosy and welcoming, and they were more than happy to move tables around to seat our group of seven. Our orders from a simple but appetising menu were taken quickly, despite a few communication issues, but it was all downhill from there. The order of chicken teriyaki only took fifteen minutes, which was good, but fifteen minutes later when the other dishes had still failed to appear, my friend had to start eating before it went cold. The other dishes appeared sporadically over the next twenty minutes, the eel arriving half an hour after the chicken teriyaki, by which point most of us had finished. The rice we'd ordered to go with the teriyaki dishes came midway through the meal, and some (not all) of the miso soups showed up near the end. The water we'd ordered for the table had to be requested twice, and didn't actually appear until most of us had finished eating. My meal, teriyaki tofu, was bland and overpriced - $12 for three slices of soggy tofu with a sticky teriyaki sauce, and it didn't even come with rice or vegetables. I heard good things about the vegetable tempura, which looked like deep fried carrot to me, but there was a general consensus that it wasn't enough to salvage the experience.
In future if I'm after a cheap and easy Japanese experience, I'll probably be more tempted to grab some boxed sushi from the nearest St Pierre's. Epic fail.
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