Poutine From Imadake Izakaya (Poutine Week) / イマダケ居酒屋のプーティン（プーティンウィーク） ~ I'm Made of Sugar!

Poutine From Imadake Izakaya (Poutine Week)
イマダケ居酒屋のプーティン（プーティンウィーク）

(Japanese follows. / 日本語は以下へ続く。)

Poutine Week day 5: Imadake Izakaya

According to Poutine Week 2014 HP, Imadake Izakaya has "Attack Of The Imadake's プーティン Disaster 2014."
* プーティン is the way we write in Katakana, one of Japanese writing forms.
And it's described as "Japanese street comfort Meets Quebecois requisite staple."

It's interesting to see Japanese izakaya (bar) is providing Quebecois traditional poutine, so we decided to go.

A list of poutines we've tried.

Frite Alors!

A&W

KFC

Monsieur Restaurant + Bar

Poutine Centrale

We made a reservation at 6:30PM as we heard it’s pretty famous and get full quickly.
And when we got there, it’s almost full and a lot of people were coming in and waiting.

When we sat at a table, menus and also a poutine week slip were brought.
The sheet already had voting code on it.
(I blurred the code out here to avoid abusive voting.)

The reason I came here was to try the poutine, but as it's style a la Okonomiyaki, I asked several times no mayonnaise.

The menu contained pretty good range of Japanese Izakaya foods; salad, seafood, tempura, grilled dumpling, ramen, yakisoba, dessert, various kinds of sake, and etc.
We ordered a salad, yuzu chicken, squid, ramen, and tempura besides Okonomiyaki poutine.

Tempura was fried perfectly as the batter gets heavy and mushy easily, so I was impressed actually.

Yuzu chicken, the reason I ordered was a waitress said it's breast meat, however, it was thigh meat. It had nice refreshing Yuzu flavor in it, but still it had stinky odor of thigh meat...

Poutine Style A La Okonomiyaki

Over an Okonomiyaki, bonito flakes, green laver, red pickled ginger, and Okonomiyaki sauce were poured, and of course french fries and cheese curds, the important ingredients to create poutine.

I get the idea that the Japanese dish collaborated with Quebecois traditional plate, but it was just so bizarre.

Instead of gravy, it's Okonomiyaki sauce which has sweet flavor, and this was like just "an Okonomiyaki with fries and cheese curds topping."

To make this worse was that the Okonomiyaki was cold.

It's served pretty fast, so I guess they used a frozen Okonomiyaki and microwaved it, or they made Okonomiyakai a while ago to have it ready whenever.

If they have cooked Okonomiyaki fresh, or at least it's warm and served on a hot griddle pan to the table, it'd have tasted better.

However, it'd have been still "Okonomiyaki with fries and cheese curds" and not poutine.

Taiyaki Ice Cream

I ordered "Taiyaki ice cream" for dessert.

Taiyaki is a fish-shaped pancake filled with sweet red bean paste.

It's served with warm Taiyaki, vanilla ice cream, strawberry Pocky (chocolate coated skinny biscuit), cereals, blueberries, raspberry, and strawberry sauce.

Taiyaki was warm, and pancake was chewy and was filled with sweet red bean paste.

Cold ice cream with warm Taiyaki was a good combination.

I liked this dessert better than the poutine.

Attack Of The Imadake's プーティン Disaster 2014: 10 CND dollars (Poutine Week)

Taiyaki Ice Cream: 7.5 CND dollars

Imadake Izakaya
4006 Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Westmount, QC H3Z 1P2, Canada

Open

[Lunch]

Mon - Fri: 12:00 PM ~ 2:30 PM

[Dinner]

Sun - Wed: 5:00 PM ~ 10:30 PM

Thur: 5:00 PM ~ 11:30 PM

Fri & Sat: 5:00 PM ~ 1:00 AM

プーティンウィーク5日目：イマダケ居酒屋

プーティンウィークのHPによると、イマダケ居酒屋では
「Attack Of The Imadake's プーティン Disaster 2014」を提供しているらしい。
* 2014イマダケプーティンの惨事？
このプーティンの説明は「日本の味とケベック人に必要不可欠の食べ物の融合」
としか記載がないため、詳細不明。

日本の居酒屋がケベック州の伝統料理であるプーティンを出しているのは珍しいと思い、
行ってみることにした。

これまで食べたプーティンのお店は以下。