NYC Tastes

After some shopping in the East Village Tuesday night we headed over to our old standby yakitori joint Yakitori Taisho for dinner. We got there about 5:55 and the women inside told us they weren’t open yet but that next door was available. Next door? We had no clue what she was talking about. We walked to the left and saw a similar looking joint called Oh! Taisho. This seems to be some sort of spin off of the original. For the purposes of comparison I will call the spin off “Oh!” and the regular “Taisho” during this post. We decided to check it out and ordered our usual Taisho dishes to see how it compared. First up the Tuna Carpaccio. This came out looking a little different than Taisho. The tuna was in bigger chunks and there was a lot less lettuce. The tuna was definitely thicker than normal but still had the same salty sauce on top and the same mayonnaise on the side. I really enjoy having lettuce with my tuna to cut the salty taste a bit and would have enjoyed some more on the ...