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2011-05-01
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Planned a 101 and Ritz-Carlton F&B tour and love to try out all outlets there one by one. Indeeed, it's a masterpiece of Hong Kong, although "great view" is basically guaranteed impossible in HK with serious pollution and foggy days all year round. Dining at such high level will definitely give me the feeling of being "top of the world", proud of what HK has is always world ranked....Picked this restaurant because I saw a press release in a local magazine, as it's located in such a premier place
Picked this restaurant because I saw a press release in a local magazine, as it's located in such a premier place, I had the sense that the queue is long....
My Japanese friend from Tokyo loves food as well, decided to go with him, and in a way, I can learn more about Japanese culture. Robatayaki is nothing new in HK and you can find other restaurants serving this as well. However, they do it in a real traditional way.
Booked a table 2 weeks in advance, good enough to get a table for 2. We chose the 2nd session from 8:30pm after the first starting at 6:30pm, because we can stay till closing without rishing to release the table. When I arrived, they were getting the table ready and greeted me to a bar area, the first impression is the interior, not Japanese but definitely mordern fine dining layout. I was wondering....until the waitress showed me the way to the Robatayaki room...I was shocked by the sense that it looks totally another world. It's like going back to older generation in Japan, Chef and waiters were wearing traditional outfit, Japanese speaking, and they invited customers to involve in the preparation of ingredients, kind of experienced dining style.
My Japanese friend told me he has never tried such traditional way of robatayaki as well in Japan. He appreciates a lot to have this in HK.
After seated, the most funny thing to see is the food arranging in front, no menu and we can just pick whatever we like, in our pace. For sure, it sounds a bit dangerous as you don't know the price.
We tried some vegetables first, musroom followed by Kinki, pork, Wagyu beef, some other hot dishes as well. For robatayaki, without putting a lot additional stuff to change the taste, everything taste as original. Some people used to eat a lot msg or salty food might find it a bit too simple, but as long as the food are in fresh and good quality, it's fine.
To order others like sashimi, still can but not all from other session as they have teppanyaki, sashimi bar out there as well.
The entertaining atmosphere is the major thing to enjoy here, the 3 chefs there were very entertaining and interact with us, drank with us and play some traditional singing...it's lots of fun.
We had a bottle of white wine before seating and 2 bottles of their house sake, recommended by the manager, and it's good.
We had the manager and 2 other waitress and waiter to serve us, explained things in Japanese and Cantonese and service is pleasant.
Will come back to try other session next time.
One of the problem I identified there has been proven by another friend went there at another time. For such luxury restaurant, they might have kind of "selected" customers, to serve people whom are VIP in their list. That means, service can be excellent to some people, and terrible to the others; in short, not consistent. This should be improved as after some time, they cannot just rely on "royal" customers and pissed off the others, as the space there is not small, pleasing general public is also very important.
张贴
