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I'm not going to hide here, I like beer, I like beer and I like food on a stick. So when the other half said "do you want beer and food on a stick?" (paraphrasing) I said "yes I jolly well do." (verbatim) So we found ourselves in Coedo Taproom in Fashion Walk. I had heard of Coedo and had tried a couple of their beers before, plus in general I have a particular liking at the moment for Japanese beers, so this seemed a no-brainer. We ordered a beer tasting platter which consisted of 6 small glass
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I'm not going to hide here, I like beer, I like beer and I like food on a stick. So when the other half said "do you want beer and food on a stick?" (paraphrasing) I said "yes I jolly well do." (verbatim) So we found ourselves in Coedo Taproom in Fashion Walk. I had heard of Coedo and had tried a couple of their beers before, plus in general I have a particular liking at the moment for Japanese beers, so this seemed a no-brainer. 
We ordered a beer tasting platter which consisted of 6 small glasses of different beers with descriptions and tasting notes and a plate of six 'paired' skewers. 
beer taster
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beer tasting platter
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I wont bore you with my pitiful attempts at sounding like I know what I'm talking about. All of the beers were good, all of them.  Pilsners, wheat beers, blonde beers, red and black beers. Coedo make good beer, and some of it is punchy. The Beniaka red beer weighed in at an impressive 7%.  
Lets get in to the food on sticks. From front to back on the above picture. Lamb with cumin, pork with a spicy miso, beef tongue with chimichurri, Chinese mushrooms (though I suspect they would have been called Shitake given the provenance of the restaurant), chicken with leek and finally marinaded duck. Let's not waste time here, they all worked. The lamb was as you'd hope, tender, juicy and with that heady, earthy cumin flavour, spicy miso is a winner, beef tongue and chimichurri are great bedfellows and the duck was wonderful.  They may have been even better if I'd bothered to study which was paired to which instead of jumping in with all the grace of a starving hippo in a tutu. 
Happy with the choice of restaurant after the first leg, we went for a second round of stick food. 
Unagi
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Eel. Not everyone's cup of tea (or indeed glass of beer), but I love it, and this, again hit the spot, great texture nice sticky glaze and above all, two sticks! 
chicken livers
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Next, the star of the show. Chicken livers. They seemed to have a very similar glaze to the duck we had earlier, which was no bad thing.  Juicy, metallic, sweet and tender. I could go on, but i'm dribbling over my keyboard. Simply wonderful. 
But storm clouds were on the horizon.
Peppers
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Peppers with bonito flakes, a skewer classic, but lets be honest,  hard to get wrong. A solid stick.
okra with cheese
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Okra with cheese, this is where we started to become unstuck. Okra, great, cheese, great. Okra and cheese....not so great. Okra was still on the rare side and the cheese looked and tasted like a cheese slice from the supermarket that had been attacked by a blowtorch wielding okra hater. It was just a bit odd and didn't fit with the quality that had gone before. Even the presence of an extra stick couldn't save it. 
sweet potato with brown sugar and butter
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Sweet potato with brown sugar and butter. Oh good lord! You see that on a menu and it just begs to be ordered, so, gullible as we are, we did order it. It wasn't bad, but it would have been better if it had been a touch more charred and drenched in sauce instead of teased with it. 
beer steamed clams
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Last, and on this occasion, very much least, we ordered beer steamed clams. We both love clams, and as mentioned right at the start, beer is good, very good. So how you can put these two glorious things together and get such a bland, flavourless forgettable dish of nothingness is beyond me.  It tasted of water with a hint of onion and somehow even managed to blanche out any taste of clam too. What a mess. 
So, to sum up. Come for the beer, stay for the meat, stay away from the clams. 
Oh and for those of you thinking that skewers are a nice cheap dining experience, think again. This pile of sticks and empty beers glasses ran just north of $800. 
(以上食记乃用户个人意见 , 并不代表OpenRice之观点。)
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2018-03-02
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