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All-You-Can-Eat Sukiyaki

Goddamnned camera sucks balls in low-light. My apologies.

Having finally secured a job that offers me more than ten hours a week, and having also received a little bridge financing from the 'rents, I decided to celebrate my good fortune through gluttony with a trip to Posh. Posh recently expanded operations (there are already three locations in Vancouver) a few weeks ago by unveiling its first Victoria restaurant in a spot formerly occupied by Med-Grill. Sukiyaki style cooking arms eaters with a shallow cooking pot filled with sukiyaki sauce (a sort of sweet soya sauce) and cabbage. You toss some meat and veges in there, let 'em soak up the sweetness of the cabbage water/sauce mix, and then dip your meat in raw egg if you feel so inclined (different from Shabu Shabu where you do not cook directly in sauce).

At Posh your options for meat are beef, pork, cod, and fish cakes. For vegetables you've got an array of mushrooms, yam, zuchinni, and probably a few other things I forget. You also have the ability to toss udon noodles into the pot as well as vermicelli, tofu, and baked tofu.

The meaty shitake mushrooms are the highlight here as they maintain a good texture after cooking, and the sweetness of the sukiyaki blends well with the flavour of the shitake. The pork and beef cooked up pleasantly in the sauce, but weren't as enjoyable flavour-wise as the Korean BBQ-style options you get at Sura on Douglas. The soft, eggy coating, however, does combine with the sweet sauce in a way that allows each meaty morsel to wrap its way around your mouth fabulously.

The cod is a definite disapointment here however, as it tastes like a sour, sweaty fishmonger's shop smells in the heat of the early afternoon (in other words, "too fishy"). Overall eating at Posh is an enjoyable experience, but sukiyaki is perhaps better enjoyed in a non all-you-can-eat format: the food is good, but it all sort of starts tasting the same after shoveling it in non-stop for half-an-hour.

Finally a little bit of advice: don't bother with the Udon noodles. Yes, they taste good in the sukiyaki sauce, but they totally take up the whole pot and can really end up fucking up your flow: better to stick with meat and veges. It should also be noted that Posh is still young, and I have absolutely no idea if at some point in the future things like sushi and tempura will be added to the menu. At this point in time I would say the price for all-you-can-eat is fair, but it's not exactly the deal of the century (although the bottomless pop is a plus). I may have left loving the Passionfruit 7-Up more than I did most of the food, but I'd still say Posh is worth checking out.

Price: $24

Rating
3.6/5