Wagamama Grilled Duck Donburi

Wagamama grilled duck donburi costs £21.30 and carries 1129 kcal, the biggest bowl on the donburi page and the biggest dish on this side of the menu. Grilled duck in spicy teriyaki over sticky rice with carrots, mangetout, sweet potato, cucumber, onion, a fried egg and kimchee, plus the duck small bones advisory.

This is the donburi page's occasion order. Duck grilled and sliced over rice, a fried egg whose yolk becomes the bowl's second sauce, sweet potato adding body no other bowl here carries, and a spicy teriyaki that pushes past the standard glaze into real warmth. Broken and mixed properly, egg into glaze into rice, it is the closest wagamama comes to the great yolk dressed rice bowls of Japanese home cooking.

The numbers are frank about what it is: 1129 kcal makes it one of the heaviest dishes in the building, the 54 g of protein is the menu's highest figure outside the seafood ramen, the sugar at 25 g leads the donburi page and the salt reaches a full day's NHS guideline in one bowl. The price at £21.30 is published and premium.

It divides the table between those who call it the best thing wagamama serves and those who find it too much of everything, and both are describing the same bowl accurately. First timers should bring an appetite and skip the starter; the bowl resents company.

On how much is the grilled duck donburi, £21.30 stands, more in the usual postcodes. If anything precedes it, make it the spicy smashed cucumber, whose sharpness is the only starter that helps rather than competes, and green tea after is the traditional mercy.