Kasadela

Discovered one of my childhood unknown English-existent word veggie from motherland china; lotus root, sliced as thin as potato chips and tasted just like them. I'm not sure if that was worth $3.50, you can get over 3lbs of lotus root in C-Town or get a big bag of gourmet route 66 chips for the price of this less-than 4ounce of Kasadela's chips but I do commend them for their creative. Ordered the Tebasaki Nagoya 8pcs, Japanese style chicken wings, a quite over-fried that might have even shrank the wings but well seasoned--I mean that in a good way--infused with fresh grind pepper with a sweet and sour base. Ordered one of the specials, tofu Dengaku, steamed tofu covered in a smooth but plain oyster sauce-- maybe they thought the sprinkle of sesame seed would do the trick but it was not appealing nor tasty enough to be considered a special. The end was with dolce, I usually don't, but I figured we had light entrees, what the heck and they claim its homemade. The green tea tempura ice cream, where should I start... well I noticed it was pre-made and imagine your typical tempura--but now with a fulling of ice cream--it wasn't as crispy in fact it got soggy in a bed of whipped cream topped with two slices of kiwi. The presentation was a little out of context but I'm not complaining. In addition we ordered the sesame seed ice cream, the good thing about this is that there's real sesame seeds and it does taste like they're in it.

Its a chill place, not rushed-or at least that was how we felt or maybe cos it was a slow nite either way, the music is smoothing so you can kick back and chat with sake. I give them credit to paying some attention to detail on the dishes, so don't feel like there isn't any skill involved. The portion of dishes vary in size so do the price. Will I come again? Sure, but not for a while.

larger than tapas, jap style.

Kasadela, 647 E 11th St, Btwn Ave B & Ave C