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2010-04-13
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Don't you sometimes wish that a Taiwanese restaurant be run by Taiwanese, Spanish by Spanish, Malaysian food by Malaysian and vice versa? In Hong Kong, unless you can afford a very expensive meal at exquisite restaurants, authenticity, in this case, is hard to find. Japanese food, case in point, is a perfect case study whereby almost all (I might be exaggerating a bit here) Japanese joint is run by non-Japanese, and almost always, highly priced. I don't want sashimi or sushi, I just want a norma
Japanese food, case in point, is a perfect case study whereby almost all (I might be exaggerating a bit here) Japanese joint is run by non-Japanese, and almost always, highly priced. I don't want sashimi or sushi, I just want a normal Japanese meal, made preferably by Japanese (doesn't count if you're born Chinese and lived in Japan for 1 year).
JP Deli (not a deli in itself as they don't sell anything that you can bring home to cook) is located in Jervois St Sheung Wan, closer towards Bonham Street. It is clean, new, spacious, simplistic (with only 1 table-stacked with magazines, and 2 chairs), unless there's 0 customers, then you might be able to enjoy a nice quiet lunch (they close at 6pm).
I ordered their specialty Bento box which I have totally forgot to take down its name for this purpose, BUT, it is delicious fried chicken with sesame sauce on top. Meal cost HKD$50, probably the most expensive meal out of all other options. Cheapest, guessing from memory, would be the $10 Croquette (looks good from what I can see by other reviewers).
The lady that took my order, lo and behold, is Japanese! (grin with excitement). I had to wait about 10 minutes for my meal, but I couldn't care less with all the magazines I have to myself.
Needless to say, I absolutely enjoyed my lunch.
The chicken was in small bite sized pieces, easy to bite, so they say. The rice wasn't too much, thank goodness for that, as I hate wasting rice (some establishment LOVE giving out mountains of rice). You get 2 small portions of side dishes. I personally think it is a perfect portion for a lunch, unless you're expecting to do some hard core work out after lunch, it will satisfy you emotionally and physically.
Till next time, O hai yo ga zai mas.
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