Motto Motto Japanese Kitchen - Garden City | Upper Mount Gravatt

For the Sono Lovers who find it a tad expensive, here's a cheaper alternative. Bought to you by the guys behind Sono, Motto Motto offers you quality Japanese fast food at a fraction of the cost. Unfortunately, cheaper also means slightly smaller servings, but hey, it's all about quality and not quantity, right?

Motto motto means "more more" in Japanese - so what a perfect name!
With the slightly smaller serves, you really do want more and more!

Time for a taste test.


The menu is short, but diverse. Choose from rice bowls, rolls, noodles and sides.


Famous for their 12-hour pork superstock in the Ton-kotsu Ramen ($12.9), I was super keen to try it out. BUT it was already sold out at 5pm on a Saturday night.

Feeling depressed, I chose the next best alternative - Raw Seafood Chirashi ($13.9), which features super fresh Tassie salmon, pacific ocean tuna, sweet Hokkaido scallop, salmon roe, creamy avocado (drizzled with an exquisite yuzu citrus sauce) on a bed of Japanese short-grain rice. Even the rice by itself was quite enjoyable - cooked perfectly with a splendid consistency and texture, and best of all, came with a refreshing citrus flavour (from the yuzu citrus sauce). I must admit, however, I was slightly disappointed by the proportion of rice to sashimi - there was waaay too much rice, and not enough sashimi. Not to mention that the sashimi, including the scallops, were diced into minute pieces.

Raw Seafood Chirashi ($13.9)
The word "chirashi" means scattered, so this is basically a big bowl of rice mixed with raw sashimi.

My Fellow Food Extinguisher ordered the Saikyo Yaki Fish ($13.9) which features traditional saikyo yaki style grilled fish and mixed seafood on deliciously cheesy rice and vegetables. The grilled fish was marinated in a light, sweet saikyo miso sauce - which blended perfectly with the flavour of the fish. I would have preferred the fish to be a little fresher and the sauce a little creamier, but overall, it was still quite pleasant.

Saikyo Yaki Fish ($13.9)

The dishes were a little small so we also got the Potato Salad ($5.5) - creamy mashed potato with fresh green salad. Creamy is an understatement - it was rich, smooth, and instantly melted in your mouth. To top it off, it was infused with distinctive onion flavours and drenched in a fragrant sesame sauce, adding multiple flavours to this insanely addictive dish. I really wanted more though - one tiny scoop just wasn't enough :(.

Potato Salad ($5.5)
Comes with a choice of 2 dressings: soy or sesame

Verdict:
Delicious Japanese fast-ish food at an affordable price, but I wish the portions were bigger. I WANT MORE @@.