Guu Garden-OH MY GUUDNESS!

I've always wanted to try Guu Garden because it's a division of Guu, and its interior design looks really fancy to me. After discussing with EU, we decided to take the Skytrain to downtown and give this new Guu a shot!

Guu Garden
M101-888 Nelson Street, Vancouver BC

Ratings
1:Yucks! 2:Improvement needed 3:So-So~ 4:Good 5:Very good 6:Heavenly

Food: 5.5
Price: 4.5
Services: 5.5
Ambiance: 6
Overall: 5.5

• New Guu branch
• Authentic Japanese restaurant
• All chefs and waitresses are Japanese
• Mon-Sun 5:30pm-12am
• Everyone will greet you warmly when you enter the restaurant
• Focus on oden
• Odd location; it is pretty hard to find...
• Get busier at night
• For large group, they recommend customers to pre-order their prefer Oden menu when making reservation.

• You can choose either to try their cocktails or tea

Kanto-daki

• Each ingredient has a different price, from $1.5-7.8
• Soy sauce based oden with light soup
• They have Today's Oden on Today's Special sheet
• See that muddy yellowish paste on the side of the pot? It's wasabi and it goes well with the balls. You should try it ;)

• Mochi Tofu Bag-5.5/6
• $2
• Everything is edible, including the white thing that is used to tie the bag
• Eu and I were totally surpised by this little bag! At first, we didn't expect anything from it by its outlook; we thought it's just an ordinary fluffy tofu ball. However, when I bit open the bag, it was filled with mochi inside!
• The mochi is really chewy and sofy, it's like a half-melted marshmellow (without the sweetness)
• The white thing that is used to tie the bag (uhh I don't know what it is called) is chewy as well
• Highly recommend for mochi lovers! EU, who is one of them, loves this so much!

• Ganmo Tofu Ball-4/6
• $1.5
• Nothing special about this ball; it's like those ordinary tofu balls you have in hot-pot
• It is a bit more chewy though

• Fluffy Fish Cake-3.5/6
• $2
• It is quite fluffy compare to other ordinary fish balls/fish cakes
• If you order this, I suggest you eat it first because it gets really soft after staying in the broth for a while
• Maybe because it already got so soft when I tried it, I didn't really like it's texture. It's too soft for me.

• Ginkyo Nuts-5/6
• $1.5
• They gave me more than I expected. I thought they gave me two orders but when I asked them, they told me this is one order :)
• I am a ginkyo nuts fan! Even though they do not have much taste, Guu Garden is able to cook them in the right texture. Chewy and crunchy enough for me!

Miso Oden-5.5/6 (for fried egg), n/a (for taro jelly)

• $1.5 each
• EU ordered the taro jelly so I didn't try it
• EU said the taro jelly is chewy and she likes it
• The fried egg is better than I expected. It is soft and fluffy. And it does not taste oily.
• The miso sauce is not salty, which is good; instead, it has a hint of sweetness. I like it ;)

Salmon Ruibe-5/6

• $7.8
• Salmon is fresh and it still has that chewiness
• The dressing is not too overwhelming, it matches the salmon and the green onions
• I don't know if it is a special feature or not, the salmon is semi-frost (?). I mean it's still hard/icy in some parts. I take that as something special while EU says it's a mistake.

Grilled Saba Shima Sushi-6/6

• $7.8
• HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!!!!!
• I couldn't stop thinking of it after having this dish! The taste is so unforgettable!
• The saba (mackerel) is cooked in the right time. It is served softly with some rice in the middle.
• $7.8 for 6pcs may seem a bit expensive but this is definitely worth it! I'm sure you will love this roll as much as I do!

Chopped Tuna, Green Onion, and Herb Hand Roll-6/6

• Forgot the price
• It is a special on that night
• Neatly presented :)

• They gave us a generous amount of filling! (which is rare nowadays) The hand rolls are stuffed with tuna and have the right amount of rice
• The herb goes very well with the tuna and the green onions. It also gives the hand rolls a very nice smell
• Tuna is soft and fresh
• Nori (seaweed) is not bland and is still crunchy