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2010-05-26
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Short Review:Sashimi > Tempura > Cooked food (煮物) > Skewers > Rice Long ReviewEstablished almost forty years, Kotobuki is one of a handful of homely Japanese restaurants along the same street in Tsim Sha Tsui. It's patterned after the ubiquitous neighborhood style restaurants you'd find in back alleys in any city in Japan. Friendly but not pushy, serving homestyle cooking, where patrons sit and chat for hours over a long dinner.We started with sashimi, well worth the price.
Sashimi > Tempura > Cooked food (煮物) > Skewers > Rice
Long Review
Established almost forty years, Kotobuki is one of a handful of homely Japanese restaurants along the same street in Tsim Sha Tsui. It's patterned after the ubiquitous neighborhood style restaurants you'd find in back alleys in any city in Japan. Friendly but not pushy, serving homestyle cooking, where patrons sit and chat for hours over a long dinner.
We started with sashimi, well worth the price. Shimaaji, salmon, kanpachi, saba (mackerel) and hamachi were all extremely fresh and served at the right temperature - chilled but not icy. The Uni Sushi was a standout; at $30 a pop it is definitely worth a try.
Skewers were fine but nothing special; I suspect they were put out for a while, instead of being brought to our table straight after roasting. The opposite was true for the vegetable tempura platter. The tempura was piping hot, and more importantly, filled with vegetable juice. This is very hard to do, especially for carrot or pumpkin; Kotobuki managed this and more. Recommended.
We tried some of their cooked dishes - small yams were delicate and tasty, but cooked fatty pork was merely ok. That dish featured a good sauce but the pork was too lean, and had been stewed for too short a time.
Like all good Japanese meals, we finished with a rice dish. This time, curry pork cutlets. This was a total disappointment. They didn't use Japanese sticky rice, just normal Chinese rice, but they used far too much water. Combined with the curry, it felt like paste. The cutlets had zero fat, and consequently very tough. And the miso soup had too much miso. That said, this was the low point in an otherwise very pleasant meal.
(Place can be noisy. There was unfortunately one drinking party a few tables over which spewed profanity almost constantly)
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