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2016-03-07
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Funky Sumo restaurant.Probably better for drinks than for lunch.5/10 Unless you work (or drink) often in this area, it's very easy to miss this location. There used to be a nice lounge at the same location. It then folded and turned into a decent Japanese restaurant, which also folded and now became Amazake, which literally means sweet sake. It's a special type of sake usually served hot during festive seasons.Amazake has a funky interior with a comical sumo wrestler appearing throughout the sh
Probably better for drinks than for lunch.
5/10
Unless you work (or drink) often in this area, it's very easy to miss this location. There used to be a nice lounge at the same location. It then folded and turned into a decent Japanese restaurant, which also folded and now became Amazake, which literally means sweet sake. It's a special type of sake usually served hot during festive seasons.
Amazake has a funky interior with a comical sumo wrestler appearing throughout the shop. There is a prominent bar area set in the middle of the shop with partitioned seats and regular tables arranged around the bar counter.
There is a limited but sufficient amount of lunch sets to choose from:
I ordered a katsu don while my colleagues ordered tempura set , a seafood don and a negitoro don respectively.First came the salad (due to some techinal difficulties I couldn't upload that photo.) The salad was wholesome and tasty enough for set lunch standards. The amount of sesame sauce used was certainly generous. No complaints at all. That was relatively uneventful until we get to the miso soup and chawanmushi (steamed egg):
While both the miso soup and the chawanmushi were decent enough (I would have preferred more dashi, i.e. fish stock, in the steamed egg as it was quite bland), what those lacked in quality they made it up by quantity. By that, I mean the restaurant does not appear to have a record of what the customers had. Most of the servers held a large tray with either miso soup or steamed egg. As they walked past each table, they will ask whether you had the soup or egg already before putting it on your table - which was normal, or just put it on your table if they can not see either of those on your table.
In our case, we each received either an extra egg or miso soup. Being honest customers, we alerted them to the situation. Not that I'm really complaining about it. After a rather long wait (and two more trays of miso soup and egg), my katsu don finally arrived:
The amount of egg sauce was good, it was neither too salty nor too soggy. The taste was just fine. The Japanese pearl rice was nice too. It was just the right texture. Unfortunately, the cutlet porkchops (tonkatsu) were a bit soggy. I suspect it's probably because my katsu don had been languishing somewhere on the servers counter before being brought to my table and not the fault of the kitchen staff. The management leave a lot to be desired.All in all, the katsudon was fine but HK$190 plus service is a bit steep.
Unfortunately, one of my colleagues was not satisfied with her tempura set. According to her, the tempura prawn was fairly bland and the batter was too soggy.
The colleague who had negitoro thought his was fine but I think the color of the negitoro is slightly too white for my liking. In my experience, it tends to indicate that it had been kept in the freezer for a bit too long.
On the other hand, my other colleague enjoyed his amazake assorted sashimi bowl ($240).
I asked for the dinner menu just for the sake of completeness. The items there seems far more interesting than the lunch sets here. So I wouldn't rule out Mr. Sumo wrestler just yet.
I wonder whether they serve Amazake?
5.5/10
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