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前元氣一杯日本師傅主理；提供鄉土風味的特式居酒屋菜式；友善及國際化服務；性價比高；推介！Unique Izakaya dishes;Good quality cooked food;Japanese fish and chips available;Very friendly and international service;Good value;Recommended! Sachi:Located at Prat Avenue, this place is both easy and hard to find. It's located at a commercial building right next to a number of ... establishments not intended for kids. If you didn't check carefully, you'd easily walk into the wrong place. There is also a Japanese karaoke inside the same building, whi
提供鄉土風味的特式居酒屋菜式；
友善及國際化服務；
性價比高；推介！
Unique Izakaya dishes;
Good quality cooked food;
Japanese fish and chips available;
Very friendly and international service;
Good value;
Recommended!
Sachi:
Located at Prat Avenue, this place is both easy and hard to find. It's located at a commercial building right next to a number of ... establishments not intended for kids. If you didn't check carefully, you'd easily walk into the wrong place.
There is also a Japanese karaoke inside the same building, which my wife and two other friends went on Christmas Eve.
Decor and service:
We walked-in without a prior reservation and was greeted by a friendly waitress. Fortunately for us there was a table after a short wait:
8 seats in front of sashimi counterAbout 5 tables each for 4 persons and one big tatami room for almost 20 persons!
(Booking is recommended.)
Trilingual:
The menu was in Japanese, Chinese and in English.
The most amazing thing - and this is truly the first time I see this in Hong Kong - is that even the daily "Osusume" (recommended) menu is trilingual! So no worries there - also, more importantly, it shows that this restaurant respects customers who speaks different languages.
The service is also a testimony to their internationalism. They have only two waitresses. One was Japanese and one was a Hong Konger. Both spoke Cantonese, Japanese and English! They were all friendly, polite and efficient.
The chef, who I understand used to work at "Genki Ippai" at Mirama, was equally friendly and efficient. He would sometimes serve dishes to customers personally.
Definitely no problems with service and/or communication.
Selections :The nicely designed menu had quite a lot of dishes from Miyazaki and also from areas which I couldn't identify.
It consisted of the standard Izakaya appetizers, quite a lot of grilled and fried products like tempura and grilled fish, a small selection of skewers (I think less than 10), hot pots (beef/tofu/chicken/seafood), sushi and sashimi.
As stated above, there is also a daily recommended menu in a separate "Chef's recommendation". Since it was our first time here, we decided to order mostly from their daily recommendations.
There were what we've ordered:
Gunma En Konyaku with sour miso:
This dish is served cold. The konyaku tasted like a harder version of grass jelly.
Dip in in sour miso which tasted like sesame sauce. Please eat it with the chopped shallots, onions and "Myoga" with it. That's the Japanese way of enjoying this dish.
Refreshing.
Snail: Ten of those in a shoyu soup. My wife liked it a lot. I think it's average. Mind you, I'm never a big fan of snails. Anyway, the broth seemed to me to be a mix of dashi and a little bit of cooking sake.
Fried lotus balls: Very fun to eat with chili sauce. The balls didn't really taste much other than a light lotus taste mixed with potato starch. However, the super chewy texture made it very fun to eat. You're supposed to dip it into chili soy sauce - which was a milder version of the Lee Kam Kee one.
Turnip braised in fish stock:Very soft, fresh and flavourful. My wife liked it a lot.
Ankimo: Very, very good. Nice and smooth. Probably the best ankimo I've had in Hong Kong.
Also known as Froi Gras of the sea. Looks like the type of fish used to make this dish is turning into an endangered animal...
Kono wata (this intestine) : Strong stuff alert! Taste essentially like sea water with a quail egg. Impossible for me to handle without sochu. We ordered extra banno negi to go with it and a bottle of "Kobiki" Sochu to wash it down.
Lettuce:For some reason, Japanese lettuce are usually very crunchy. These were just as good:
Anago sushi: Not good. Too dry. Too small. Not recommended. Looks like this place is better at cooked food than sashimi/sushi.
Hokke fry: I've mentioned briefly in my review of "Tomoe", that when it comes to cooked fish, the main difference between most Hong Kongers and Japanese is that Hong Kongers like our fish soft, tender and steamed. But Japanese usually like it grilled.
So even though it maybe blasphemy in a Japanese restaurant to order fried battered fish, I ordered this:
Nice and crunchy batter. Not too oily. I enjoyed this very much. You could taste the flavour of the fresh fish. The texture was just right. Dipping it into HP sauce completed the whole experience!
Finally, complimentary melon:
Sweet. The drink list had a decent amount of selections. The prices were good.
One bottle of Kobiki for $280.
The bill came down to HK$1,000 for two including 10% service charge, beer and the bottle of sochu.
Conclusion:
Good quality cooked food. Very unique.
Very good service and good value.
All in all, a very enjoyable experience.
This is one place I'll return again and again.
Recommended!
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