Wokooshii

I wanted sushi but unfortunately they didn’t have a proper sushi restaurant nearby so I ended up here just to quench my craving. They also had Korean food so I figured it was the best compromise.
My friend and I ordered bibimbap, shabu-​shabu with beef, salmon roll, chicken potstickers, and a vegetable roll. What?! We were hungry lol.
The bibimbap with chicken was average, nothing crazy good, but still tasty. The spice was good, subtle but gives you a kick in the throat. It has the regular suspect of veg included and what I like the best about this dish was the crusty rice.
The shabu-​Shabu was ok. Good spice and flavourful stock, but it barely had any veg, from what I remember there was only 2 – 3 veg (normally comes with way more!). The pieces of beef wasn’t cut properly, too thick for a shabu-​shabu and was not fresh. The beef was frozen cause you can tell it was defrosted! Wtf is that?!
The salmon roll was decent enough, but if the beef isn’t fresh, I’m sure the fish wasn’t either.
The potstickers were really good! I’d come back here just for it but you only get 3.
The staff was attentive and the service quick! I wouldn’t come back here unless I really wanted Korean food and I couldn’t go to proper one in manchester city centre.

Japanese and Korean restaurant sounds like a winner — best of both cuisines, and conveniently situated in the Trafford centre.
I was excited when we came across this, and wanted to try it out. The menu wasn’t too bad and had nice pictures of the dishes.
I opted for the fillet steak with rice and a prawn and salmon grilled starter. It looks and sounds nice. How could you possibly go wrong? Wrong.
My starter was alright, nicely grilled and had flavour, but my main of fillet steak was poor. In my opinion, no matter what you do with fillet steak, it’s going to be good, cos it’s the best cut. It was overcooked and barely warm. The fried rice was ok though.
Service was quick as expected from Oriental cuisine, but food lacked quality and execution.
That’s it I’m not going to bothered with the rest of this review.
This isn’t a very nice place in terms of food quality, and pretty safe to say I won’t be going again.

When I heard that a Japanese and Korean restaurant was opening in the Trafford Centre I was both excited and hopeful. The Trafford Centre is not a place known for it’s great food, and although there are some decent places to eat, most of it is a huge miss when it comes to quality. I rushed over to try this place out as soon as it had opened. what a huge let down. The place feels and looks like it is still part of Yang Sing, I assume it also has the same chefs and the only difference is that it claims to serve Japanese and Korean food.
The menu’s have a decent selection but it’s also no where near authentic Korean or Japanese, it’s fusion, toned down and mixed with Chinese. We shared a veg jeon (pancake) which was the oddest jeon I have ever tasted! Paper thin, no real taste, couldn’t taste the kimchi in it at all! Tasted like an onion pancake. It was also slightly burnt. No dipping sauce given with this dish either, which is very strange. I had the chicken katsu and honestly. no panko breadcrumbs, big no no! No curry sauce at all, the dish was very dry. Soy sauce in the rice which (would have been unwelcome with a real katsu curry) was welcome with the lack of flavour in everything else but should not have been needed. Yet the strangest thing was not the huge helping of mixed fruit that came with the dish but the over abundence of mayo that had been squirted all over it!
Katsu curry and fruit I’ve had before but mayo on the fruit? Yuck! My partner had a bibimbap which was served in a bulky wooden box which contained the stone bowl. Very odd I understand the bowl is hot, it’s meant to be, but I’ve never had it served to me in a child safe wooden box before! My partner said it was very bulky and hard to eat from. The red sauce was not left at the table but put on by the waiter, which my partner did not like, he likes to be able to add as much as he likes as he eats. Also you were not given the option to mix your own bibimbap as in most places, which was also strange, the waiter just picked up the spoons and mixed away without asking.
My partner said the red sauce was tasteless and watery, a watered down version basically of what a good red sauce should be. I’m unsure if they are afraid to use real Korean ingredients due to fear of English palletes not being used to it but still. calling yourself a Korean place when you water everything down is a bit rubbish. I don’t think they have a good grasp on what Korean or Japanese food is, and this was outlined by their supposed ‘mandu dumplings’ nope, not mandu, those are quite clearly gyoza, or fried dumplings. Although mandu are a little similar to gyoza, they are not the same! All in all very disappointing, had high hopes for the place but it didn’t live up to it. Would I eat here again? Most likely no, I wouldn’t unless I really fancied watered down food. Quite pricey for what it is too. If you want good Japanese food, Samsi in Manchester is pretty good and for Korean Seoul Kimchi or Oriental Fire are really good choice. Oriental Fire also does nice tasting Japanese food too.