試試一壽司

We went to 一壽司 in Causeway Bay for an early dinner last night. The first shop of this sushi restaurant is in Ashley Road, TST. When it first opened, it was making quite a big noise. They have a big fish tank with tropical fishes. And the restaurant looks very elegant aiming at serving good quality sushi. They have a big queue outside their shop every night. Then they opened another one in Causeway Bay. We went there at 6:45pm, and there were still some seats available.

I saw their chef being interviewed by TV before. My first impression of his foods was not having a good balance, 整色整水. It turns out that I was quite right.

There were quite a good selection of chef's creative sushi. We ordered quite a few of those. The seafoods are fresh. The seaweed they used were also very fresh and crispy. The problem comes from the rice and technique of the young sushi chef. First of all, they made the sushi quite big. I guess they want to impress people with good value sushi for its price. But I recall a popular sushi place in Wanchai doing the same trick. It expanded quickly in the first few years, and then closed down. Afterall, people still need good foods. Big piece of sushi is difficult to consume, and the balance between the meat and rice may be affected by that as well in your mouth.

Also, they put too much vinegar into the rice. With such a big piece of rice in your mouth, the vinegar just covered the taste of the toppings. Then the sushi chefs didn't have a good clean pair of hands. You see bits of wasabi here and there on the plate and the fish. It just doesn't look too appetizing. But I'd say the foods are still acceptable.

The service was very attentive. And the overall value was not bad. You can't beat $9 for 2 pieces of good salmon sushi. But most of the other dishes we ate were around $20. We only managed to eat only 8 dishes at the end, because the rice was quite big. And we spent $220.

一壽司
銅鑼灣禮頓道29號地下

~ Lindberg