Horoki take two!

Pooey is back in Melbs and happy to no longer be eating alone. Other than eating at...er....Mrs. Parmas, Pooey was greatly enticed to eat at Horoki after reading this post of mine from last week. So, for the SECOND time in one week, I was back eating at Horoki. But that's okay with me because I love Horoki so I got to eat some favourites again :D. Mimi, who shall henceforth be known as SEM (to be explained later) joined us for some utter deliciousness.

Green tea! A few years ago, I read a manga and a character said that it's good luck to have tea with a stick floating vertically in it. I hope that means I've got good luck!!!

To start! The special of the night, some beef tataki...

..and the tuna carpaccio. Miam, raw food!

Followed by even more raw food! The Daikon and sashimi salad comes up again!!!

The spicy cod roe and butter pasta! DISH OF THE NIGHT!!!

And a close-up of the pasta because the Vanderpoons are trying to replicate the dish! It definitely has a touch of cream and paprika - definitely not just butter and definitely not chilli-chilli. Happy recreating - always happy to taste test!

The duck breast and eggplant. I've had this previously and really liked it, especially the sauce, but tonight I found it still tasty but little dry :(

Didn't stop Mimi from trying to be a seagull and steal Pooey's duck!
She's now called the Sneaky Eating Machine (SEM) from trying to get extra duck!

After realising we were still hungry, we decided to order some salmon and spinach croquettes. Mimi didn't try to steal any of these from our chopsticks.

For dessert, some green tea ice cream. Green tea-y.

Dinner ended at the relatively early time of 8:30 and decided to get some hot buttered mulled wine from 1806. Pooey thought it was so delicious that she ordered two! Happily for us, the bartender told us that the drink wasn't seasonal - he can always make it for us whenever we want it during bar hours.