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2011-07-30
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It was an evening without planning of where to go for dinner in advance. We walked around without any ideas in our head of where to go. Walking along the road, we came across this authentic and traditional Japanese restaurant by the side named 八王子. I remembered seeing it on Openrice so we decided to give it a try. The restaurant was very Japanese-like, something that you would expect yourself to find in Japan. The decorations in the restaurant were nicely presented with colourful ancient Japane
It was an evening without planning of where to go for dinner in advance. We walked around without any ideas in our head of where to go. Walking along the road, we came across this authentic and traditional Japanese restaurant by the side named 八王子. I remembered seeing it on Openrice so we decided to give it a try.
The restaurant was very Japanese-like, something that you would expect yourself to find in Japan. The decorations in the restaurant were nicely presented with colourful ancient Japanese posters and fancy portraits and items such as bottles of wine and beer. As we sat ourselves down, we heard a table of Japanese drinking and laughing loudly. I thought, the food being served in this Japanese restaurant must be of a good and high standard. Yet, I was wrong.
As we flipped through the MENU, we were caught in wonder as to what to choose out of dozens. The MENU was very colourful and thoughtful in illustrating the best of all kinds. It took us a while to pick what we wanted; due to my sudden eager of sushi, we ordered Special Sushi set (特選壽司盛合), Eel with cheese roll (鰻魚芝士卷) and Grilled Pork with Kimchi served in a stone pot (石窩燒豚肉泡菜) + Rice.
Among all the dishes, Eel with cheese roll (鰻魚芝士卷) was the first to arrive. The presentation of the dish caught my eyes and I couldn't wait to try it out. Given that this is the recommendation dish as reference to the Openrice reviews, I had high hope for this special dish. Inside the sushi was philadephia cheese and a small piece of lettuce, with a fresh piece of eel on top of the rice. To be honest, it was totally unsurprising and over-rated, in my opinion. Though the eel was very fresh and soft, the inside of the sushi was too simple to enhance the flavour of the sushi, not to mention when you had the whole piece with the eel. It fell into pieces when I had my bite...
Next, our Special Sushi set (特選壽司盛合) was served. The dish looked unappealing to me, a random sushi restaurant like Genki or Ban-Cheung (板長) would do better than this. Yet this dish is like double times more expensive than either of them Nevertheless, we gave the sushi a try since I was really craving for them no matter how they looked. I just wanted something sushi-like in my stomach. As expected from the look, the sushi were below average quality! They were expensive and not worth the money at all. The squid was too hard to bite through especially..quite a scene to watch my friend having a hard time just trying to pull the squid into half using his teeth The only nice sushi on the plate was salmon being thick and chewy. The others all failed badly.
Finally, our Grilled Pork with Kimchi served in a hot stone pot (石窩燒豚肉泡菜) arrived. It was very chilli, we assumed extra chilli sauce was added into the pot as the sauce was seen as quite dilute. There was absolutely no chance or whatsoever that one could eat this pot without any rice or side dishes. Simply it was too spicy and heavy in flavour! Therefore, we ordered an extra bowl of rice to mix with the ingredients in the hot stone pot. And thank god it tasted delicious the best and only dish we got ourselves satisfied of the evening. Yet it was still too spicy to digest them all in one go. Highly recommend anyone ordering this dish to order an extra bowl of rice!!A random interlude occured at the middle of our meal: an angry couple was next to us arguing all along, not only on personal matters but also the fact that the ramen they ordered was wrong and the girl seemed to be extremly mad about it.. since the tables were so close to each other at this restaurant, we felt as though this couple was arguing right in our ears..it was quite a scene to 'hear' .. lasted for like..an hour? Great....
Last but not least, something I have to mention, our bill cost us HKD$192 per person. Seriously over-priced with these over-rated food as shown in Openrice!! Guys don't be over-excited when you come, if you ever get a chance that is. I shall not return, given this price range and this quality of food.
Goodbye, the 'eighth-prince'. Long live the prince.
- Y
張貼
