Archive for August 6th, 2008
天扶良 Ten Yoshi
Ten Yoshi is the sister restaurant to Sushi Hiro, my favourite Japanese sushi place. They’re located in the same building, and is one floor down from SH. We went for Saturday lunch as usual, to take advantage of the bargain prices. It has a great reputation as well, so it’s time to try.
We walked in and there was deja vu, it looks 90% similar to SH. But the food wasn’t of the same high standard, at least on the day I was there. Having had a great tempura bowl at Iwanami, I wanted to test out Ten Yoshi’s version.
Mixed tempura bowl
It looked great when it first came, with a slight aroma from sesame oil. But my first bite into a prawn was sorely dissapointing. It was soggy and tasteless. I think soggy tempura is a crime. I understand that unlike normal tempura, they ladle oil onto the tempura rather that have you dunk it into “broth”, but others I’ve had never came soggy. To their credit, a HK$160 bowl came chock full with prawns, fish, and vegetables. I regreted not having gone for the regular style tempura.
Prawn and peppers tempura bowl
C went for a lighter version, hers only had prawns and peppers. She didn’t seem to mind the soggy tempura as much as I did, but she agreed that it wasn’t the best she had had. Hers looks better in pictures too, don’t they?
Perhaps we had overblown expectations of the place and walked out quite dissapointed. I’m prepared to be back a second time. After all, most restaurants deserves a second time, especially one of such caliber.
