Date of visit : 2 Mar 2013 (Sat) 8pm

No. of diners : 7
Average cost per head : $370
Food quality : 8.5/10
Environment : 8/10
Service : 8/10
Value-for-money : 8/10
Overall rating : 8.6/10

Ship Street is a relatively short street running perpendicular to Johnston Road and Queen’s Road East. However, this short lane has already been settled with a few interesting multinational restaurants such as 22 Ships serving Spanish cuisine, Limehouse for British food, Wing Hing as local neighbourhood eatery, and this Yuyu with Japanese food.

Don’t get misled by its name, this dining outlet does not only serves sushi or sashimi. It offers a full range of Japanese food such as appetizers, teriyaki and tempura. The interior of this Japanese restaurant is modern. You won’t hear the staff shouting “i-ra-sha-i-ma-se” (welcome in Japanese), however, they are still serving with courtesy.

a) Japanese Hairy Beans 日本枝豆 ($38) – 7.5/10

Poached beans with sprinkle of salt, a common snacks to go with beer.

b) From left clockwise, Sea Bream Sushi真鯛壽司 ($36 for 2pcs ), Striped Jack Sushi 深海池魚壽司 ($48 for 2 pcs), Yellow Tail Sushi 油甘魚壽司 ($36 for 2 pcs), Fatty Tuna Mix Shanghai Onion Gunkan 大蔥吞拿魚腩軍艦 ($45 for 2 pcs), Salmon Roe Gunkan 三文魚籽軍艦 ($50 for 2 pcs) – 8.5/10All the sushi and gunkan were fresh, in particular the sea bream which tasted sweet.

c) From left to right, Crab Roe Gunkan 蟹籽軍艦 ($22 for 2 pcs), Duck Meat Mix Goose Sauce Gunkan 鴨肉鵝肝醬軍艦 ($32 for 2 pcs), Grilled Salmon Sushi 三文魚炙壽司 ($24 for 2 pcs) – 7.5/10I only tried crab roe gunkan from this dish, the seaweed sheet wrap was a bit moist than it should be.

d) On top, Grilled Egg Sushi 京都厚蛋燒 ($24 for 2 pcs), bottom from left, Foie Gras Suishi 法國鵝肝壽司 ($58 for 2 pcs),
Jumbo Scallop Sushi 珍寶帆立貝壽司 ($48 for 2 pcs) – 8.5/10The grilled egg suishi in Kyoto style was different from the egg roll 玉子燒 (da-shi-ma-ki), beaten eggs are baked in a pan which makes the exterior look like a pound cake. The baked egg was not too sweet and was the highlight of the dish. The credit goes to them as I haven’t tried the other two sushi.

e) Lean Tuna Roll 鐡火卷 ($58), Yellow Pickled Radish Roll新春卷 ($22) – 8/10

f) Left, Avocado Fried Soft Shell Hand Roll 牛油果炸軟殻蟹手卷 ($38), right, California Hand Roll 加洲手卷 ($28)
I haven't tried any of these.

g) Deep Fried Chicken Soft Joints – 8/10

The soft joints were tender yet chewy, the flavour can further be enhanced with some Japanese spicy seasoning.

h) Sea Urchin Hand Roll 海膽手卷 ($55) – 8.5/10
The sea urchins were large and fresh.

i) Crab Meat Clear Soup 蟹肉清湯 ($45) – 8.5/10
Despite a clear soup, the unami flavour of the crab legs was strong.

j) Sea Bream Simmer Soup 鯛魚湯 ($48) – 9/10
I’m a soup person and this is really my “cup of soup”. The creamy colour was just right for a good fish soup. Smooth and milky, you can find dices of mushrooms and tofu inside.

k) Grilled Mushroom鮮冬菇串 ($26 each) – 8/10

l) Chicken Gizzard 雞腎 ($28 each) – 8.5/10m) Beef Short Rib 牛肋 ($35 each) – 8.5/10The texture of this short rib somewhat resembled that of the chicken gizzard, interesting.

n) Japanese Sweet Pepper 日本青椒仔串燒 ($32) – 8/10

o) Chicken with Japanese Leek 雞肉大蔥串 ($28 each) – 8/10

p) Ox Tongue 牛舌 ($39) – 9/10The meat was tender and juicy, highly recommended.

q) Grilled Yellow Tail Head Joints 鹽燒油甘魚頭鉸 ($120) – 8.5/10
The fish was fresh and the skin was just grilled nicely. Where is my beer?

r) Mirin Puffer Boshi 味淋魚干 ($75) – 7.5/10
The grilled dried fish was a bit too sweet for me.

s) Pumpkin and Sweet Potato Tempura 日本南瓜蕃薯天婦羅 ($55) – 9/10The pumpkin and sweet potato were lightly battered, moist inside.

t) Cold Buckwheat Noodle 冷喬麥麵 ($65) – 8.5/10The noodle was chilled to its required temperature.

u) Ice Cream (complimentary) – 8.5/10
The restaurant offers 7 choices of ice cream, black sesame and coconut are recommended. The former was blended with noticeable sesame seeds while young coconut could be found in the coconut scoop.

03.2013

Right, so I guess this entry will be my first restaurant review writing in English, haha, I guess it will always be a good idea to explore something new and I suppose I will be able to pick up some english writing skills if I keep doing this so I forced myself to make a good start in 2013 since I am going to have 2 days off!

I went to a Japanese Restaurant for lunch with a good friend of mine today at Wan Chai since my friend works in Pacific Place and it is kinda accessible for him to come over. We were suppose to go to a Teppanyaki place today but I am not feeling too well so I picked a sushi place as well, a reservation has been made but they only have sushi bar table available since it is fully booked.

The restaurant was empty when I entered, and in fact the setting of the restaurant is plain I would say, we were lucky enough as our seats are not right next to the toilet . They served us with hot tea and refilled it quite often, I am kinda impress with that to be honest. Rather than sushi they have different lunch sets available including some donburi sets or udon sets with a few pieces of sushi, price range from $85-$230 which is reasonable enough in wan chai area, it is pretty chilly today so we decided not to eat any sushi or sashimi, instead my friend ordered a teriyaki chicken donburi set and I ordered a Salmon Steak with miso set , both served with green salad and miso soup.
Green salad and miso soup came about the same time, salad comes with some Lettuce, Cucumber and cherry tomatoes served with a japanese salad dressing, the veges are kinda fresh and the taste of the dressing is not too sour for me which is pretty good too!
The miso soup for me is pretty good, I reckon it is not hot enough when they delivered it on the table, and the taste is a bit too light as a miso soup but I found spring onion,tofu and mushroom in my bowl of soup though, in terms of ingrident it is good! Oh well I can’t say it is a bad one but is just not too impressive for me.
While we are half way through finishing our salad and soup my friends teriyaki chicken donburi ($85) arrived, there were at least 6-7 slices of chicken fillets and some pan fried vegetables on top of a big rice bowl that filled with rice, those chicken pieces looks okay , at least it doesn’t look overcooked so hopefully my friend enjoyed it , he was saything that the portion is way too big though therefore when we are finished with our meal there was roughly half of it left in the bowl.
My Salmon Steak with miso set ($95) came in a bowl of rice and a plate of vege and fish, pretty much some pan fried veges and a big piece of salmon steak coated in miso sauce. The veges for me is average, they are lightly seasoned and the presentation was quite bad indeed, the fish was okay and the miso sauce is kinda tasty, but it will be much better if the salmon skin is crispy, the fish itself was juicy enough so I will rate it good but not very good! The rice was done nicely and the texture is good so I manage to finish around 2/3 of it, I have eaten the whole piece of salmon steak except the skin but I have left half of the veges on my plate though.
Overall the food is okay and the service was pretty good, at least the servers in the restaurant are really attentive which is really good because it is more or less an essential element of working in a service industry.
Anyways it is really good to catch up with a good friend, and we have some interesting travel ideas in mind today, see if we will make this happen within this year

雖然是兩年前寫低，不過都要分享一下

為慶祝有 bonus 出, 我哋倆口子決定豪食~~
接咗老公放工後, 就出發去我哋都好鍾意嘅
YuYu 係一間我認為價錢比較高(~$150-$200/head), 但絕對物超所值的壽司店,
用料十分新鮮及師傅出手闊綽。火灸三文魚5大片, 三文魚子脆卜卜, 海膽份量
亦比坊間的多2-3倍, 當然質素都非常之一流

本來是定了要去試附近一家餐廳，因為沒訂位的關係吃不到，和同事隨機選了路過的“Yuyu Sushi”。

在一般上班日午餐而言，餐廳的裝潢和整體感覺讓我很舒適，點了一個天婦羅烏冬Set Lunch,套餐連沙律、壽司及湯。其中，壽司很令人驚喜，刺身的鮮味和飯糰的結合、壽司Set款式的配對，對我而言很有日式居酒屋的味道，簡單、鮮甜味美。更驚喜的是天婦羅烏冬中的烏冬，柔軟順滑的程度，是我完全沒預料到能在一家壽司店中吃到的水準（不是彈牙有口感的那款哦）。烏冬是一種很特別的食材，上桌后不能判斷是好是壞，只有你吸進去的那一瞬間，你就能夠打出一個分數；而且每個人的口味也不一樣，有人喜歡軟身的、也有人喜歡彈牙的烏冬，只有你自己試試才知道合不合心，這裡的烏冬就挺符合我的要求。附加一提，Set Lunch的分量剛剛好，不會太多也不會太少。這是一家我會納入我的工作日午飯名單的餐廳，吃一個好吃滿意的午餐，對下午上班的心情有莫大幫助。我會找一次純吃壽司，我想應該會是不錯的。

由於放題full booking的關係，在openrice日本菜特集找到這間。YUYU Sushi是“裝修以黑色為主的型格壽司店” 沒錯。
餐廳不大，迴轉台在餐廳中間，外圍有幾張卡位台。

看看我們三姊妹的容量吧。是晚串燒買3送一。 點了金菇牛肉串，煙肉玉米串，雞翼釀明太子，牛肋串。
味道不算非常出色，不過屬中上級。
壽司方面有三文魚，油甘魚，帶子，鵝肝壽司，長腳蟹卷，芝士鰻魚卷。圖為芝士鰻魚卷，芝士入口即溶，與鰻魚的口感好夾。
鵝肝壽司體積較小，不過煎得比一般連鎖壽司店好，做到外脆內軟的同時不油膩， 有鵝肝香味。

小食方面有味淋魚干，炸豆腐。圖為炸豆腐，端上來時很有驚喜，因為賣相之好是超過想像的。至於味道，很喜歡它的炸粉，很細薄很脆，沒有讓豆腐在炸的過程過份吸油或破壞。
味淋魚干份量太少了。
還有蟹籽沙律及最出名的魚生飯。圖為魚生飯（＄140），端上來時看到魚生塊件件色澤新鮮，像有用心擺放過的，就會明白價值所在。

My friends and I went to have lunch at the restaurant yesterday. Although we were early, the waiter insisted that our table was allocated at 1.05pm despite our recollection that the appointment was for 1pm. We ended up waiting for 15 minutes. During this time, two staff continued arguing with us that we had a mistake on the appointment time and were not happy with our request to sit at a table for 4 (despite our requested booking. On the food, the rice with the raw seafood was hard and the grilled salmon was not grilled. In all, an unpleasant experience. At $110, it was not cheap and there are plenty of other places with decent food and much better service

My friend brought me to this Japanese restaurant to welcome me coming to HK. I have to say they pick a great choice!

We ordered a bunch of sashimi and sushi. The sashimis are very fresh and the eel sushi are very nice.My friend also order some foie gras sushi for me to try. Oh my god! They just melt in my mouth! It was good I can just eat that for the whole night.My friend also recommended the curry pork cutlet to me. The pork is really thick and juicy.

Definitely would come back again when I have time.

飛魚刺身溫度過熱

三文魚和油甘魚刺身都很好，油花足

還點了天婦羅和串燒。串燒很好，天婦羅太多油，不推薦

平常吃飯很好，但買了正清酒的，這家店也許配不上你的清酒了

Please make reservation as sometimes there may not be any walkin seats

兩個傻人試新野
當晚其實都食左唔少野, 卷物, 燒烟肉粟米仔, 燒雞肉京葱, 魚干, 技豆, 燒雞骨腸, 燒雞腎, 燒牛舌, 凍蕃茄沙律, 炸墨魚咀, 雜菜烏冬, 一支細清酒.
用材不算很高級, 但胜在師傅手藝好, 味道合格, 服务唔算欣勤, 不過不失啦. 價錢算大眾化, 整體上算唔錯, 同埋食物選擇多.

本小姐有時候真係幾難服侍, 食要食得講究, 又中意次次都試唔同既餐廳, 確實係煩死人地個仔
無啦啦心思思想食魚生飯喎, 咁就一定要食魚生飯啦OMG係我最愛既灼三文魚腩同海膽呀, 真係好難唔好味囉