Mitsuki Katsu and Sushi Bar — Restaurant in Brisbane City

Look how they massacred my boy 😭

I ordered a chirachi rice bowl and some spicy tuna rolls for myself and some things to share with my family.

Everyone had finished eating by the time my chirachi rice bowl finally arrived, including 2-3 tables around us. To my absolute horror, the chirachi rice bowl was some sort of poké bowl abomination with tiny cubes of fish and tamago scattered through a bowl of rice.

The cubes were so tiny you couldn't season them with soy sauce unless you picked them up one at a time to dip them in like Cinderella picking up lentils and peas from the ashes. The fish was on top and under the rice in no particular arrangement. It looked as bland as it tasted.

Chirachidon is my most favourite dish. I grew up in far east Asia and I've eaten it countless times, including in my regular visits to Japan throughout my childhood. To this day I compulsively order it everywhere I go. I have never been served a chirachi rice bowl where the fish pieces weren't sliced sashimi cuts and neatly presented with garnish. I appreciate that scattered chirachi styles exists, but even then the sashimi pieces are at least large enough for a mouthful to season with soy sauce - and they aren't mixed through the rice.

What's the point when you have a whole poké bowl menu? If I wanted a poké bowl, I would've ordered one. Instead I was just served this nightmare meal fit for a pigeon to peck away at, while I watched luscious sashimi sets glide past me on the roboserver heading to other tables.

I asked the server and coom and received word that the recipe had changed, which explained nothing. I just wanted to know if this was a mistake, or what? I didn't want to waste food so I ate my bowl of rice with sashimi sprinkles and waited another 15mins for my spicy tuna roll - which never arrived (I was compensated a green tea though, which was nice).

Redemption was much needed here as I was slowly slipping into deep depression as I tried to find my sashimi bits hidden in my rice like an Easter egg hunt (at least we're on theme I guess).

Eventually we asked about the tuna roll and were told that we had already received them (we hadn't). One could count the empty plates on the table against our order but I guess the cat Roomba roboserver isn't equipped with critical thinking and could not vouch for us (it's not his fault, don't hate him, he's adorable) - so it was our word vs. the human server's suspicion that somehow I was trying to swindle the kitchen for another round of horrors. She went back without challenging us further, so we waited.

Honestly I was full of rice and abstract concepts of sashimi, but the rage was slowly building and keeping me on track for getting my full order which I paid for. I didn't want a refund. I wanted justice. I wanted to remember what raw fish tastes like after being served whatever that abstract rendition of a classic dish was. The spicy tuna rolls were ok. My partner's pork katsu was quite tough (but nicely crumbed and the curry was good).

Anyway, long story short, please for the love of all that is good - PLEASE Mitsuki sushi, give the people what they want: a classic, no funny business chirachidon. With real sashimi pieces, sliced. Neatly arranged. Pretty. Makes you happy to look at and fuels your soul as you delicately place tender pieces of nature's best work to your lips and appreciate each bite of fish with a lil' soy sauce and maybe some wasabi. Rice bed patiently waiting underneath the sashimi like dormant spring shoots waiting for the snow to thaw. I could've been dreaming of spring and sakura blossoms by now, but instead I got emotional whiplash and a belly working overtime to find the protein you hid in my $25 rice bowl.

Whatever is going on with this new recipe - this ain't it. I hope this was just a one off and that Mitsuki will not continue to propagate this blasphemous iteration of the prettiest, simplest and tastiest sashimi dish there is.

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Also, the way the food was presented was really weird, a huge bowl of rice with 3 giant prawns fit tightly in a medium sized bowl, and the same with the hot green tea, they put the tea in a bowl instead of a mug......

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