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2012-02-15
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My wife and I were trying to discover new yakiniku places in the Wan Chai area so we decided to try this so-called "Hong Kong style" yakiniku shop, whatever that means. As you know from the kanji already, Yakiniku basically means roasted meat and is thus in principle the same as the more colloquial term: BBQ, i.e. barbeque. Just having a bottle of Japanese soy sauce and a jar of shichimi doesn't turn a place into a Japanese yakiniku and vice versa. Anyway, this shop was situated directly across
Anyway, this shop was situated directly across Hu Tong Yakiniku and was not too hard to find. We chose this one as the comments seemed OK, more spaces might be available in view of the slightly recluse location and judging from the photos, the chefs all seemed pretty focused at what they were doing. So we found the restaurant and got a seat without much problem. The interior was rather spacious and brightly lit. There were both counter seats and table seats. The tables were nicely arranged in that every table had privacy. About 40-50 seats in total, unless there are any VIP rooms which I didn't notice.
The menu had about 40 different items. Mostly standard BBQ shop items but they also offered quite a number of high-end options such as abalone and razor calms. They had a number of beers which included draught Stella and Tsing Tao and Asahi. They also had sake, sochu and a decent selection of wines. They have an English menu at hand if you need it.
These were what we've ordered:
- Pork Lard Rice: in this health conscious age, not many restaurants do this dish, which consists of pork lard, pork floss and specially brewed soy sauce brewed with cane sugar. It was not exceptional but still pretty good.
- Grilled razor clams with garlic: this is recommended as the razor clams were pretty fresh. If you like the seafood at Sai Kung, you might like this too.
- Grilled scallops: The restaurant served two types of scallop: one type was steamed with garlic and was supposed to be more fresh. The other type of scallop was stir friend with some chilli. We were invited to order the fresher one. It was OK. Not excellent but acceptable.
- Chicken wings: This is another dish that I could recommend. The wings (3 per order) were juicy and meaty. Those were glazed with honey and a type of slightly hot sauce. Nicely done.
- Eggplant: I don't recall the restaurant putting any seasoning on the grilled eggplant other than a bit of sea salt perhaps. About 12 inches long - good value.
- Lamb (Medium): The timing was right and the meat was tender. Also quite good.
- Grilled Japanese Mochi with cheese: This was highly recommended by the waitress so we tried it out. It was quite sweet and cheesy. Not bad.
- Grilled Sweetcorn: Normal. A bit dry though. Might have been slightly overcooked.
- Squid Balls: This was quite good. The taste of the squid was pretty strong which indicated that the source was fresh.
- Grilled flounder balls: This was quite interesting. As you might know already, flounder is an essential ingredient in any properly made wonton, wonton noodle and fish ball noodle stock. It's my first time trying flounder balls. It's quite interesting and worth a try.
What is worth a special mention is that the service was very good. Both the lovely waitress and the ex-talent boss were friendly. Noticed I mentioned ex-talent - the boss of this restaurant used to be part of a boys band in Hong Kong; as such, he was/is quite popular amongst the ladies. When we were having dinner, I noticed that almost 90% of customers were ladies. One of my colleague, together with her equally charming friends, confessed to me that they were there because of the boss. (My wife thinks he was イケ面 , i.e. handsome, too! )
The price wasn't cheap but, at the end of the day, this place is worth a try because of the good service, reasonable food and comfortable environment. Not sure whether it's a good place for a romantic dinner though, as either your partner or yourself will be distracted (either by the boss or by the customers ).
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