Fugetsu - Sunnyvale — Restaurant in Sunnyvale

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Service was great. The waiter was attentive and helpful in explaining what each type of food if you are unfamiliar.

First some education! Okonomiyaki is a grilled Japanese pancake with flour, egg, shredded cabbage and meat topped with a bunch of sauce (Japanese mayo, etc.) Technically you can put anything you like in it. Yakisoba is grilled soba noodle. Modanyaki is okonomiyaki with soba noodle.

Now let's talk about food: Mentai Potato Salad ($7.5, 3 stars) - I was expecting this potato salad to be chunky. To be fair, it did say "mashed potato" on the menu. Small fish roes were mixed in the mashed potato, which added an interesting crunch.

Spicy shrimp & scallop ($11, 3 stars) - generous portions of shrimp and scallops, but it was WAY TOO SALTY. I ended up finishing it with the okonomiyaki.

Yaki onigiri with sea urchin ($7.5, 3 stars) - the uni was not the freshest I've had but the rice ball was grilled nicely. I would try the chazuke one (the grilled rice ball is soaked in tea).

Pork & Kimchi Okonomiyaki ($13.95, 3 stars) - there was too much batter in this okonomiyaki, also a lot of sauce. I like the pancake to be crispier so I think it should be cooked longer.

Garlic Mayo Seafood Yakisoba - ($17.95, 3 stars) - yakisoba is just soba noodle first cooked then grilled, and this one was nothing special. The garlic mayo had a good kick to it.

Tip: Be careful with the HOT metal plate in the middle of the table. It's there to keep the food warm rather than cooking the food. Nonetheless, it may be extremely hot and simply touching it can burn...

Limited lunch menu. Not enough options for Okonomiyaki during lunch. I had this in Hawaii and there were so many options there so I was disappointed when the only meat option was pork. If you don't know what an Okonomiyaki is, it's basically a Japanese pancake that consists a variety of ingredients.

Ordered the Cheetama Pork Modan, which is a large order consisting of a pancake with pork and melted cheese with an egg on top. The pork is cooked along with the grated cabbage and it's at the bottom of the pancake, with a middle layer of round thick noodles, and top layer consisted of an well cooked egg, cheese and sauce. There is a bottle of sauce on the table if more is needed. I couldn't really taste the cheese, just in a couple of bites here and there.

Also ordered the Pork Modan (large). When the items came out it pretty much looked the same. The modan size pancakes were more than enough to share between two people. The regular size is probably enough. We also ordered the garlic steak. The menu stated that it was slices garlic steak but we had to slice it ourselves. The garlic steak was cooked to a perfect medium rare and was enjoyable.

There is no experience here, meaning you don't get to watch them cook the pancake, instead everything is cooked in the kitchen and brought out to the table and placed on the hot plate to keep warm. I'd come back for dinner to try their dinner menu, which seems to contain a lot more options but would skip coming here for lunch. The restaurant is nestled in between 99 Chicken and...

Overall it's a good experience and the good is unique it's own category. The business specializes in Japanese pancakes, Okonomiyaki, and a few other specific side dishes. Wait list can be long as the business is small and gets busy really fast. I would recommend coming in early right when it opens as the business is not your usual 9 to 5 hours of operation; it opens around 5 30 pm.

Portion and quality of the dish is good, a bit saucey and hidden meat portions with a large portion of vegetables. If you like to eat, I would say it's just enough for you to be content a for the duration of your stay. However, if you wanted to eat another dish, you can easily order another without getting too full. Service was lacking as the waiters and waitress' had to perform multiple roles to ensure customer service. However, being that the place is busy, they overlook the basic service of asking the customer the quality of the meal, refilling water, and having ready to-go containers of any left overs. I felt the establishment lacked service, thus 1 star taken away.

I would come again but given the circumstances of their limited hours, long wait times, and somewhat small portions - in my perspective, I'm not too inclined to make this my priority. Was a...