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2009-03-07
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This restaurant is super expensive at night, but without getting a lot of food. Sushi/Sashimi prices range from $20-100 per piece, but the better fish/shellfish varieties mostly lie in the mid-range bracket. For example normal Sea Urchin might be $40 per piece, but higher end Hokkaido Sea Urchin would be $70-80 per piece! Its normal to spend $600-800 at night here easily, per person, if you want to become full. As $600 before 10% added, will only get you around 10-15 pieces of sushi plus some i
This PARTICULAR review is based on lunch, because its much cheaper than dinner, not dissimilar to 见城's lunch menu. One of us has the $290 + 10% Sushi set, giving you a choice of 16 pieces of sushi from a sheet of paper (which does not include everything available), also some 前菜, soup and tea or coffee. You can choose maximum 2 pieces per type of sushi, or you can choose 16 different types. Meaning, you can choose 2 pieces Chu-Toro and 2 pieces Uni/Urchin if you desire. The Urchin is obviously the cheaper of the 2 versions.
To cut it short - I did not enjoy the lunch much. Some of the fishes were dry and even fishy, the 'cells' have obviously degraded due to bad overnight storage. A piece of Red Maguro tuna was dried on the edges. The 2 pieces of Chu-Toro, even though really 'tasty and oily' and obviously sourced from better Blue-fin Tunas than other so-called Blue-fin Tunas in cheaper shops, was fishy as well with slight oxidation on the edge of 1 piece.
Another problem, as I've said in the Causeway Bay Main store review, is that the sushi's here are tiny. At lunch time, it's probably even slightly worst. A Kohada こはだ nigiri sushi for example, had only half of a fillet of a finger's width covering the rice only. This is the 1st time I've seen Kohada served this way, whether in Japan or Hong Kong!!! Unbelievable.
The Anago sea eel was around 2/3rd the size of a normal Anago nigiri. Some sushi's made by another local HK sushi chef had much bigger rice than the fish, even another table complained about it. The Wasabi at lunch time is also not the better variety offered at dinner time, whereas over at Kenjo 见城, they don't skimp on it even at lunch.
The ones in the photo shown are already the better 'batch' from our lunch course.
I have to honestly say - even though this shop has a great variety of seafood, it needs more attention to the smaller details for customers to judge it as worthy of the extra expenditure... Most sushis are just served raw as it is, without garnishes, flavour enhancement herbs, etc. For sure, a true sushi eater will not need these as it'll mask the original flavour sometimes. But the piece of Saba did not even come with any spring onion/ginger to accompany it (in case its fishy, but at least make it optional!), let alone any pickled Konbu on top. A snapper or some white fish for example might benefit from some Plum/Shiso, but here, all seafoods are served plain.
FINE... I like them fresh and in its rawest state anyway.
But the Fish / Shellfish are so bloody small, I can't even taste the damn thing.
And some of them WERE not fresh and fishy.
张贴
