This restaurant is one of Stan’s recommendations that he suggested for Japanese food. Itamae-Sushi has a few outlets strewn across Hong Kong such as in Hong Kong International Airport, Granville Road in Tsim Sha Shui, Mongkok or Kowloon. We were walking around in Causeway Bay and the timing was just right for lunch.
Itamae-Sushi Restaurant
They’ve even prepared a step-by-step guide on how to eat sushi! It’s easy as 1-2-3 and I would think that the third step isn’t too hard to follow:
Easy as 1-2-3
If you’re sitting at the sushi train, these are the prices for each of the colour coded plates.
Colour coded
To start things off, we decided to go with the California rolls. As usual, you can’t go too wrong with it, especially if they use fresh ingredients. We also had the egg sushi.
California Rolls
Egg Sushi
Of course, we had to try some of the wide variety of sushi that was available. From the pictures below, you can see that they were very generous with the fresh slices of salmon and tuna (unlike a lot of the sushi places that we see here in Kuala Lumpur). You can’t even see much of the rice under the long strips of salmon! The plate of tuna sushi was about HK$25.
Salmon Sushi
Tuna Sushi
The Eel Spring Roll (HK$25) was labelled under the “Creative Sushi” and dressed with mayonnaise sauce, it was definitely an out of the ordinary sushi as it was wrapped in a soft rice roll.
Eel Spring Roll
Below are the Fried Soft Shelled Crab and Squid.
Fried Soft Shelled Crab
Squid
I have to say that the Grilled Salmon was done very well. Using very fresh sashimi grade salmon, it was grilled so that it was slightly charred, yet leaving the meat soft and juicy to the point that the meat almost melts in your mouth.
Grilled Salmon
The Saga Japanese Beef Roll is also under the “Creative Sushi” category and having seared the outer layer of the beef, the middle portion is left raw, resulting in a tender beef sushi.
Saga Japanese Beef Roll
A word of caution. During peak hours, you may need to wait for quite some time, so it would be advisable to go during off-peak hours (some have waited for over an hour to get a table). Fortunately, we went later in the afternoon after the crowd had gone so there was no waiting time.
Itamae-Sushi Restaurant
Shop 1-3 G/F., Excelsior Plaza, Yee On Building,
24-26 East Point Road,
Causeway Bay,
Hong Kong
Tel: 2110 8504
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