岩手 ·建的食记– 香港中环的日本菜寿司/刺身

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由於因為疫情影響，今年唔可以去旅行慶祝生日，咁唯有喺香港食餐好嘅日本菜，幻想一下自己去左旅行啦！呢間日本餐廳係新開業嘅，由於我驚星期五晚會比較多人外出食飯，所以我喺幾日前已經預先訂座。當晚我哋大約8點左右到達，睇左個Menu 後，決定試下呢度嘅Omakase，話晒都係慶祝生日呀！是晚廚師發板菜式如下：柚子松葉蟹碎蔥拖羅米餅石垣貝北海道清酒鮑魚鱆紅魚鯛魚帆立貝長崎縣大拖羅三文魚子飯牡丹蝦炙燒鰹魚鵝肝金鯛魚茶碗蒸蜂巢雪糕我覺得值得再嚟！同埋我都偷聽到隔離檯嘅客都話會再嚟！

石垣貝
北海道清酒鮑魚
鱆紅魚
鯛魚
帆立貝
長崎縣大拖羅

三文魚子飯
牡丹蝦
炙燒鰹魚
鵝肝

金鯛魚

茶碗蒸
蜂巢雪糕

我覺得值得再嚟！同埋我都偷聽到隔離檯嘅客都話會再嚟

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(以上食记乃用户个人意见 , 并不代表OpenRice之观点。)

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2020-09-25

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$1300 (晚餐)

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小惡魔

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夜晚到歌賦街覓食，見到新開左間居酒屋門口好靚❤️即刻決定入去試試小店大約可以容納到20人左右，座位闊落坐得好舒服,装修擺設都好靚！　叫左好多野食，叫左沙律、枝豆、魚干、串燒、刺身，汁煮魚頭等等完全冇伏

夜晚到歌賦街覓食，見到新開左間居酒屋門口好靚❤️即刻決定入去試試

小店大約可以容納到20人左右，座位闊落坐得好舒服,装修擺設都好靚！　叫左好多野食

，叫左沙律、枝豆、魚干、串燒、刺身，汁煮魚頭等等

完全冇伏

(以上食记乃用户个人意见 , 并不代表OpenRice之观点。)

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Summary: Neighborhood Japanese that offers not-worth-your-time sushi omakase, and more-worth-your-time yakitori. Stick to cooked food and sashimi and you should have a decent meal, but for me, there are better options nearby.

Being critical of local restaurants is tough because they improve the area so much, but I think there are some real issues here. Iwate-kin replaces my beloved Sama (they moved to a bigger space next to Samsen in Sheung Wan), and their woodblock-painting-style façade really brightens up Gough street. The space remains the same though, and they’ve squeezed a surprising amount of seats out of such an awkward layout.

Here’s how it looks now – a big improvement given what they have to work with:

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Here’s the menu – and wow check out the production value! Puts chain restaurants to shame

Here’s where my problems with this place start: I get that it’s still technically in Central and that sushi is expensive (lol), but as a small local Japanese restaurant, I think 400 for 8 pieces of sushi is a lot to ask, much less 1280 for their grand course. You have certain expectations of quality and execution for a place that charges over 1k for omakase sets: those weren’t fulfilled here.

Here’s what I did have:
Shima-Aji sashimi

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Recommended by the chef. Fresh and VERY firm – I honestly don’t know if sashimi is supposed to be this crunchy, but I enjoyed it

Satsuma Chicken Salad

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A specialty, the teriyaki glaze is a bit sweet, but the chicken itself, imported from Kyushu, has real intrinsic chicken flavour. The salad itself is just a bunch of dull mixed leaves, but it’s overall a fine dish for the price

Sushi

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I wanted to try a variety of sushi, but of the 6 I ordered, they only had 3 (Shima-aji, some white fish of the day that I couldn’t recognize even, and Engawa), with the other fish on the menu not so interesting. It’s Covid-2020 and they’re brand new so that wasn’t a big deal. What was a big deal is that the sushi here isn’t very good.
The rice is a bit soft, there isn’t enough vinegar, and the whole nigiri nearly falls apart when you pick it up. Further, the fish neta is sliced somewhat roughly and everything feels a bit unrefined. It’s all edible of course, but the nigiri just doesn’t feel integrated as good sushi does, it feels like a slab of fish slapped on top of a blob of rice. I can’t imagine paying their omakase price for this standard. Another note, the menu incorrectly offers Hirame (flounder), when it’s in fact Engawa (flounder fin); still tasty but most definitely not the same.

The negitoro maki roll was probably the worst of the sushi I tried. I’d never realized how important properly vinegared rice was to this roll – mushy rice, mushy negitoro and just totally flavorless. Not good.

Tsukune – Chicken soft bone meatball

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Just to test their yakitori – tsukune is fine! Texture was good, with lots of cartilage and it was nicely grilled. Egg always a nice touch.

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Overall, it’s a new restaurant and a small place, so give them some latitude for their minor foibles. Servers are still getting used to the menu, but they were enthusiastic and attentive. I’m not a huge fan of their sushi offerings, and I’d recommend you stay away from the omakase until they improve or before you try a few pieces of a la carte. Cooked food did seem fine, and sashimi was as good as sashimi can be (I’m not a huge fan).

For izakayas/simple sushi places in Central or SW, the only places that I feel are worth patronizing are Kushiyaki Sesson and Sushi Masa, so it’s not like we are swimming in great choices. I would choose either place for their respective specialties over Iwate-Kin: Sushi Masa (Sheung Wan branch), for about the same middle-range price, offers a dinner omakase which is fantastic and far more authentic, while the very reasonable Sesson does fantastic yakitori and cooked food, including HK’s best Goya Champuru.

However, I can see Iwate-kin being a practical solution for people in the neighbourhood who want a bit of both sushi and cooked food. For all this, i paid about $420 with no drinks, which is not bad and not great. I’d let them iron out some of their issues first, and approach their sushi options with caution

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2020-09-24

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岩手 ·建 (已結業)