$3
This shiro miso soup came out hot and flavourful but not too salty, with what looked like hand-ripped wakame and two cubes of silken tofu, a perfectly healthy and warming appetiser for a cold, rainy day.
The name ‘Neko Neko’ in Japanese can be roughly translated as Kitty-cat, and it took all my might to refrain from blurting out 🎵Neko Neko ya!🎵 like Kim Taehyung did that one time as soon as I stepped in. The decor is therefore cats and the atmosphere looks very chill and calm like a cat, but the owner who is also the only waiter is running around trying to attend to everyone in a frantic, almost panicked mania, also, admittedly, just like a cat. If you are slow to speak or hesitate a microsecond he’ll run off while you’re speaking to him and come back to you a minute later 😅 He did that a few times to me and it was actually bordering on ridiculous/rude. Even though the restaurant were serving fish previously, they’ve gone down the disappointingly darker road of now serving pork and chicken to appeal to more people and get the cash rolling in 😔 So now it’s truly an omnivorous joint with just a lot of vegan options. Which, since they didn’t give a rat’s about fish lives to begin with, should have been unsurprising.
The owner also sneakily tried to charge me an extra $3 for this miso soup after confirming with me that it came included in the Teishoku meal set 😒 He quickly backed out though once I noticed, so yeah watch out- the miso is actually $3 extra and more expensive if you get it just by itself without the meal set.
