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Sakana No Aji

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$401-800

Japanese Sushi/Sashimi Omakase

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To be honest, I wouldn't have visited this place if simply considering its name. Because its name reminded me of another modern Chinese restaurant in the same building charging food at a premium for its creativity of the interior decorations and names only while the portion of the food was so tiny. However, we decided to give it a try as there was omakase sushi lunch sets at quite an economical price.We asked for seats at the sushi counter so that we could enjoy omakase sushi the best. I had mad

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To be honest, I wouldn't have visited this place if simply considering its name. Because its name reminded me of another modern Chinese restaurant in the same building charging food at a premium for its creativity of the interior decorations and names only while the portion of the food was so tiny. However, we decided to give it a try as there was omakase sushi lunch sets at quite an economical price.

We asked for seats at the sushi counter so that we could enjoy omakase sushi the best. I had made the reservation with a discount offered by the openrice and there was some confusion when I double confirmed with the staff while checking in so that our lunch experience didn't start off so smoothly. Anyway, I cared more about the quality of the food.

We both ordered Nigiri sushi (8 pieces) with udon. It seemed that prices had already inflated compared with those mentioned at recent comments on openrice. Maybe the promotion season was over.

Small Side Dish & Salad

The small side dish with small fishes tasted quite good. They were not salty at all. The salad was normal.

The steamed egg was not hot but pretty smooth with quite a lot of ingredients like chicken, mushroom, prawn, 白果etc. It was quite good.

Pickled ginger slices

The chef who served us was from HK and he was quite attentive to us (as we arrived so early so he basically just served us). The pickled ginger slices were quite disappointing as the quality was just like those at Genki Sushi, really nothing compared with those served at professional sushi bars. Anyway the chef kept refilling for us as we had a habit of eating one to two slices of pickled ginger before trying the next sushi.

Sushi 1: 木章魚

The chef sprinkled some seasoning on top. There was also some jelly on top of the sushi. It was ok. But I think they didn't add much soy sauce to the sushi in general so I found them a bit too plain. I had expected that I didn't have to add any other seasoning to the sushi after being tailor made by the chef.

Sushi 2: 深海池魚

A very common sushi. Nothing special to talk about.

Sushi 3: 帆立貝

It was so thick and meaty with strong yuzu and lemon juice. The texture was so good and it was so fresh, although I personally didn't fancy such a strong yuzu and lemon flavour.

Sushi 4: 甜蝦 with caviar

I actually tried 1 caviar first and the caviar was tasteless! The shrimp itself was good and had my favourite sticky texture.

It was not very fatty but it was ok given the price.

The miso soup was served pretty hot. A pass!

The uni was fresh. But the seaweed could have been more crispy.

Sushi 7: 右口魚邊

It was grilled and it was quite fatty. Ok.

Sushi 8: 鯖魚

The chef introduced to us that there were sesame, 紫蘇葉 and 白板昆布 added to the sushi. However, it was a bit tasteless despite the many ingredients.

It was quite cold and sticky. It was ok.

The udon was ok. I did feel full after finishing all despite the small size and number of sushi!

The dessert was the worst thing of the meal. The 黑糖 syrup on top was too sweet. I had expected just a simple ice-cream scoop. It was really disappointing.

Overall, I would say the quality of the sushi was better than I had expected from the price especially given the location in Central. I even enjoyed an early bird 15% discount which made it an even better deal. Definitely no harm to try given such a price. Having said that, there seemed to be a big gap with other better sushi bars in terms of quality in the same district. So they really had to improve the quality of their food if they were going to raise their prices.

(The above review is the personal opinion of a user which does not represent OpenRice's point of view.)

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Taste

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Date of Visit

2018-08-27

Dining Method

Dine In

Spending Per Head

$255 (Lunch)

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