Hana Sakazuki Japanese Restaurant    花盃日本料理  

My friend and I do like teppanyaki and we sometimes go to a Japanese restaurant in WanChai.
But some monthes ago, another friend always has teppanyaki at Causeway Bay.
So I asked him for the details of that restaurant.
We booked the table 2 weeks before in teppanyaki table for we do like looking at the cooking.
We found that the cheapest set for one is HKD380 which got:
Salad, appetizer, prawn, fish, steak, vegetable, miso soup, rice/noodle, dessert.
The dishes is much like the one we have in WanChai but a little cheaper that that.
Everything is quite good especially the prawn, it tasted fresh.
The dessert was a small pc of cheese cake, though I don't like cheese cake, but it tasted good.
And I should talk about the waitress, she looks young and beauty and she always carries a smile.
But it's not the main point to say, but the main point is the service that she gave was so good.
Her service made the dinner more perfect.

At the end of a long week, it's always nice to welcome the weekend with a decadent meal.. enjoying seasonal goodies like monk fish liver, cod sperm sacs... ok for the uninitiated, that didn't sound right. But the point is if you never try, you never know. See http://edeats.blogspot.com/2008/11/seasonal-offerings.html Also, the Botan prawn was so fresh that it hadn't even gotten rigor mortise yet. The head started moving a little when I was still chewing the very bouncy flesh of the body and ok, initial reaction was freaky but then think about how fresh that is!

Of course, decadence is when you have everything you like served up all at once. How? See for yourself..

Aburi minced Toro with scallop embedded, topped with Uni and Salmon roe, and naturally seasoned with spring onions (2 varieties) and seaweed... who could ask for anything more?

And Teppanyaki Hida beef... laced with garlic and spring onions served with a slice of thick bread to soak up the goodness.. need I say more. Makes the work week worthwhile...

All delicious creations are courtesy of Hana Sakazuki.

Came here for lunch today and ordered the $250 lunch set and $650 set (also available for dinner). The contents of both sets were split equally into two.
Following typical teppanyaki customs our chef first served us the seafood. For us today this included a large prawn, a hokkaido scallop and a piece of gindara (cod). All turned out reasonably sweet, and the prawn's head which was served much later (as it needed longer time to cook) contained a voluminous amount of miso
After we finished devouring our seafood the chef asked if we wanted to try some bread and I said "yes" without even thinking about what kind of bread he was talking about Immediately he started teppanyaki-ing two slices of white bread with the characters of "hana sakazuki" grill-marked on them. At first I thought that it was time for the foie gras and meat dishes, since bread like this is often used for absorbing oil from the teppanyaki meat, and that the bread he asked if I wanted to "try" was to come later. (Surely the chef must not have been asking if I wanted to "try" this bread, since it's something that comes with teppanyaki by default anyway... ?) BUT he started cutting the bread ears off and suppressed the remaining square on the teppan so that the slices became cracker-thin. Then he put them in a small pool of melting butter, obviously making the bread seem no longer utile for absorbing oil. He went on to sprinkle a heap of sugar onto the bread and finally I realized this was the bread that he asked if we wanted to "try" after all. So I took a bite and thought ...not bad! It was like a very thin piece of sweet toast.
NEXT our chef made the bread which I thought he was making before, and we were served our foie gras on it. Not the best foie gras I've had for sure, but good enough to be enjoyed somehow. Then we had our thin-cut and thick-cut beef which were both of satisfactory standards and our teppan meal ended with the typical trio of chahan, miso soup and tsukemono.
Like in many other teppanyaki restaurants we were brought to a different section for post-meal drinks and dessert. Dessert was a small triangular slice of cheesecake which was decent but not worth much comment.
Overall my experience here today was moderately good and I'd say that service was definitely above average standards. Might return some time to try the sushi as the manager said that fresh fish from Japan are delivered here every monday,wednesday, friday and saturday just before dinner time. One more thing - he was trying to sell his canon camera lens when I was eating dessert, haha. The chef we had today also seemed to be a photo-fanatic because he kept commenting on my camera while I was taking photos of my food! Well, now I feel like I need to get new lens.......

I noticed that much "ink" has already been spilt on the excellent teppanyaki lunch sets offered here and I really see no point in repeating the obvious ... ... suffice to say that I have recently tried the lunch sets with foie gras, beef, cod fillet, king prawns (also came with miso soup, salad, desert and drink) etc etc and they were really quite good and tasty : A friend of mine also thought that the standard of the food here should be similar, if not even better than that at Wa San Mai (though I could not comment on this as I have not tried that restaurant myself) Service was polite and attentive (we got frequent tea re-fills throughout the whole lunch). Sitting was comfortable and the decor and ambience helped to convey a relaxed feeling - there was even a fish tank near the sushi bar (like those typically seen at chinese seafood restaurants) . I only wish to point out that the other dishes offered here were also nice and authentic. For instance, we tried the half-cooked beef slices as an appetizer before the teppanyaki - lightly marinated in a soy sauce with wasabi, the beef slices were tender and juicy, and definitely another must-try item in our opinion ! Price was certainly not cheap, but the high standard of the food spoke for itself. In short, we had a most wonderful dining experience here and we look forward to coming back again soon ... ...

It's the first time I tried this restaurant. I did some research and wanted to find a restaurant which serves real Japanese beef (not Janpanese beef from Australia) because my dad likes Japanese beef very much but he wants somewhere quiet and with good service. I knew they did and just wanted to check out the environment and service.

I had a lunch box this time. Not expensive but with salad, entree (fish and onion with vinegar), steamed eggs, miso soup, tempura (2 prawms, green chilli, sweet potato and pumkin), goose liver, beef, salmon, sashimi and rice, followed by coffee and dessert.

I particularly like the steamed egg, which had goose liver, Chinese mushroom and crab stick inside. The miso soup was also impressive since they put clams in it, which was very special and tasty. Although the beef and salmon were a little bit over-cooked.

Coffee was of a high standard and I finished it all. And the dessert was panna cotta, which was very rich and smooth. I really couldn't believe that a Japanese restaurant served such good coffee and dessert.

Service was attentive and the waitress knew that I wanted to book for the dinner and she showed me around. They also have a tank for fresh seafood and the price was reasonable. The Japanese beef they serve are grade A4 and A5. I will definately visit this restaurant again and have the beef and seafood.

I tried this restaurant several times in the past year. The restaurant always gives me a private and elegant impression. Its been a while since this restaurant being established, but I don't see it ever flooded with customers. May be it is not an indication of good food from most people's eye, but I am glad to see that because it is hard to find places in Hong Kong with good food but with quite and private enirvonment.

Since the restaurant claims itself a teppanyaki restaurant, I never tried anything but strictly teppanyaki. Price is high as you can expected from tenpannyaki, but compared with other restaurant with similar quality food, it is indeed quite a bargain. Their cheapest set is only 280, then it is 300, 400 and more. I would say the 300-400 set should satisfy most of you's tongue and stomach. They changed my perception that Teppanyaki is expensive but can never make you full. Food portion is enough while the high quality of food remains.