Archive for June 29th, 2008
湖舟壽司‧小料理 Kosyu
Kosyu reminds me of a family-run restaurant, just without the warm service. We went on a friday evening and at 7pm the restaurant was still relatively empty. We paged through the short menu and quickly decided.
Overall, it was a nice meal. C rated it an 8. For comparison, she gave Sushi Hiro and Tonkichi 9 each. I thought the service was a little aloof, even cold, and so it took away from the experience. It wasn’t cheap at HK$450 for two, given that we didn’t eat sushi or sashimi, but probably deserving for the quality of food.
Tuna sashimi w/rice
C was disappointed that they didn’t have minced toro that night because we came specially for that. She settled for second best. For HK$180, the portion was fairly large. The tuna was gorgeously pink and thankfully had none of those veins.
It’s worth mentioning that the rice is absolutely great. It was just the right amount of stickiness. C and I were trying to think which other restaurant had better rice, and we agreed that Tatsu might just have a slight leg up.
Udon
This is supposed to be some special kind of udon. It was very good, nice and chewy and chockful of ingredients (mushrooms/fishcake) but at the end of it, I’m not sure it’s worth paying HK$90 for this. It just didn’t seem special enough.
Katsu with egg
“You won’t like this, it’s too salty for you,” says C. She got the second part right, but I actually liked it despite the saltiness. It was a very generous piece of katsu, you can see it made up almost all of the hotplate. We liked how it was just the right tenderness and that it remained crispy despiet being drenched in sauce. We also gave it thumbs up for having the runny egg on top.
