This past week I had the pleaseure to eat twice at Koji Osakaya Japanese Restaurant in Portland Oregon on SE 82nd Street at the Fubonn Shopping Center. Fubonn is the largest Asian shopping center in Oregon. Inside there are wooden booths that follow along the open kitchen so you can see everything that goes on behind the scenes. There are 2 big screen TV’s that play sumo wrestling. I like that you can sit around the kitchen area and watch the flurry of activity. The first time we were there we ordered from the lunch menu. My sister-in-law ordered the Teriyaki Salmon plate which comes with steamed rice, miso soup and a salad for $8.50. I ordered the Broiled Mackeral plate which came with the same rice and miso soup for $8.50. This was absolutely fantastic! The mackeral was just perfect, so tender and it just melted in your mouth. The salad had a nice light dressing on it and also included were some cold soba noodles which were also very good. The miso soup was one of the best I have had although I will admit that I am not a miso soup expert. They have quite an extensive menu which includes sushi, japanese noodles and various entrees. I came away with a great impression, so much so that I returned with my wife a week later for dinner. Unfortunately we came at a very busy time and they had apparently run out of rice. Needless to say it’s hard to run a Japanese restaurant with no rice since it is a staple of almost every dish served. But they were very apologetic and gracious and we had them substitute cold soba noodles for the rice and only charged us the lunch menu prices. I once again ordered the broiled mackeral (can’t get enough of that) and my wife ordered Assorted Tempura which came with tempura fish, shrimp and vegetables. I sampled a bit and it was very good. We ended our visit with mochi ice cream of green tea and strawberry flavors which the kids really liked. Overall I really like this place and plan on going back.
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