Japanese & Christmas

Well we are thinking of starting to review Japanese restaurants in Hong Kong. On Sunday we had lunch at a sushi place in Causeway Bay, called "Sushi One".

It was a bit of a mixed bag, but overall not a place that we will return to. We sat at the counter - there is a mixture of tables and counter seats just like in sushi places in Japan. At the counter there was a travelator going around, but only 2 or three plates on it. Given the size of the restaurant we could probably have taken this as a warning sign and left immediately?

We ordered off the menu, choosing a few nigiri sushi: tuna, broiled salmon, inari, and sea eel. The sea eel was made fresh in the kitchen in the back and was not bad. The salmon was ok, the tuna and inari just mediocre.

We also ordered miso soup, which was alright but made our tongues tingle. You may know that that is not a standard thing to have happen when drinking miso soup. Maybe something a little off?

And some tempura - prawns and soft-shell crab. The tempura was good, probably because it must be made fresh each time. Soft-shell crab is not something that is normal in tempura, but worked quite well.

And I ordered a "spicy tuna" handroll. This turned out to be a tuna roll with a dollop of spicy mayonnaise. Just not right, and did not take good!

So the food was a mixture of mediocre and ok. However it was not helped by the chinese guys behind the counter (not a Japanese chef in the place as far as we could tell) crashing plates down on the counter.

Next time we'll fill you in on a good Japanese restaurant, and another ok sushi place. Not sure if we should start giving them ratings or not. How to judge the quality of the fish when it is smothered in spicy mayonnaise?

We have finally worked out where we will be having Christmas. Sonia flew out to Bangkok this morning, having returned from Hanoi on Saturday afternoon. I fly to Bangkok tomorrow night, and we will be at the Conrad for the rest of the week. Then on Sunday we go to Hua Hin for 3 nights at a beach there, before returning to Bangkok on 24th. So Christmas will be at the Conrad in Bangkok. We fly back to HK on 27th December, and will have New Year here.