友和日本料理

A friend brought us here for dinner on a Saturday night. It was not full house even when we left. Interior decoration was of those average Japanese restaurants in HK with nothing special. Food quality was pretty high though. We came in a group of 6 and ordered a few items, mostly cold dishes.The crab roe salad was nothing special.燒雞泡魚乾 was pretty good although I personally preferred more crispy ones. They were pretty chewy and juicy like those beef jerky. They had really rich and fresh fish flavour.Very thinly sliced snapper sashimi so there were no tendons and almost melted in your mouth. Very fresh and rich in fish flavour. There was an accompanying special sauce which seemed to be something with yuzu. Delicious! The sashimi on the platter were all of very thick cut. The best items were the toro of course which really melted in my mouth and were so fresh. The shrimps, although pretty small, were another of the best items which were pretty fresh with not much water. The 赤貝 were very fresh and juicy too, better than many other seemingly better restaurants. Other sashimi were nice and fresh in general too.Can you tell the uni sushi were all covered by so much uni. The uni was of top-notch quality, super fresh and free of weird taste like elsewhere. Seaweed were of course very crispy and fresh too. The salmon roe ones were nothing as special.We finished our meal with fish soup. There were tofu inside. We were told that different types of fish were used as ingredients and they started making it in the morning. It was really so so thick! You can tell by the layer of collagen? on top like those rich soy bean milk. It was really so hard to drink such a good fish soup outside. It was highly recommended.My friend bought us dinner so I didn't know the exact cost of the meal. In terms of food quality, it was definitely pretty good. Location was convenient too with attentive service. Would definitely come back from time to time.…Read More

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