在希慎廣場樓上的白鮨Shiro是近期我最喜歡的新餐廳之一。餐廳裝潢以白色為主，目的是要令顧客有摩登的感覺。餐廳設有多款傳統和創新的日本菜式供選擇。價錢合理，午飯每位＄100至＄200，晚飯每位大概＄200至＄300。
Shiro was justifiably one of my new favourite Japanese restaurants in 2013, and this is not at all surprising, given its impressive clean decoration featuring white colour and its incredible location on the 13th Floor of Hysan Place. It offers a variety of traditional and modern Japanese dish, costing on average $100 - $200 per head for lunch, and $200 - $300 per head for dinner.
Be aware of its strange booking policy however, because when C or D made a telephone booking, we were often greeted by a waiter who would ask us what time. And after we told them the time, the waiter would tell us we might have to wait at that time and advised us to come earlier. The interesting thing was we found that most of the seats were still empty when we arrived.
(1) The Houren sou no goma ae ($38) is a must-try item at the restaurant. It meant in English "Spinach with self grated sesame sauce". We thought they had a mix-up when they served us the dish, but we were pleasantly surprised that each interesting-looking "roll" contained basically numerous slices of spinach leaves and we got to grate the sesame sauce ourselves and it made a delightful taste in our mouths.
(2) The seared scallops in the Scallop California Maki ($45) were extremely well-cooked, and the delicious flavours of the scallops created a fantastic fresh-tasting California roll.
(3) Because C was a fan of scallop, so we ordered the Seared scallop with cod roe ($45). It failed to disappoint! It was nicely seared and delightfully tender.
(4) At first we were skeptical about the Gyuniku filet steak masutado sauce ($128), i.e. the Pan fried beef tenderloin with creamy mustard sauce, D ordered. But we were happy to know that we were wrong! Correction, very wrong! The creamy mustard sauce gave the already tender, chewy beef slices a light, yet attractive flavour. It was a perfect complement to the fantastically cooked beef that melted in our mouths right away! It takes a lot to achieve a dish like this and we highly recommend this dish to everyone!
(5) As to the sets available during lunch, there was the Assorted Sushi set ($118). You can let the waiter know what sushi you want and what you don't eat. They were generous as to the size of the sashimi on top of each pieces of sushi.
(6) The Chiroshi set ($128) is Sliced sashimi in rice bowl and this included sea urchin, salmon, and mackerel among other delicious and fresh pieces of fish.
VERDICT
Ambience: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Service: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Food: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Overall remarks: Shiro offers a reasonable-priced yet high quality option when it comes to Japanese dining in Causeway Bay. The place is definitely worth a visit for people who are tired of the usual Sen-ryo sushi bar! We just hoped that the sashimi rice bowl would be made available at dinner as well.
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Shiro was justifiably one of my new favourite Japanese restaurants in 2013, and this is not at all surprising, given its impressive clean decoration featuring white colour and its incredible location on the 13th Floor of Hysan Place. It offers a variety of traditional and modern Japanese dish, costing on average $100 - $200 per head for lunch, and $200 - $300 per head for dinner.
Be aware of its strange booking policy however, because when C or D made a telephone booking, we were often greeted by a waiter who would ask us what time. And after we told them the time, the waiter would tell us we might have to wait at that time and advised us to come earlier. The interesting thing was we found that most of the seats were still empty when we arrived.
(1) The Houren sou no goma ae ($38) is a must-try item at the restaurant. It meant in English "Spinach with self grated sesame sauce". We thought they had a mix-up when they served us the dish, but we were pleasantly surprised that each interesting-looking "roll" contained basically numerous slices of spinach leaves and we got to grate the sesame sauce ourselves and it made a delightful taste in our mouths.
(2) The seared scallops in the Scallop California Maki ($45) were extremely well-cooked, and the delicious flavours of the scallops created a fantastic fresh-tasting California roll.
(3) Because C was a fan of scallop, so we ordered the Seared scallop with cod roe ($45). It failed to disappoint! It was nicely seared and delightfully tender.
(4) At first we were skeptical about the Gyuniku filet steak masutado sauce ($128), i.e. the Pan fried beef tenderloin with creamy mustard sauce, D ordered. But we were happy to know that we were wrong! Correction, very wrong! The creamy mustard sauce gave the already tender, chewy beef slices a light, yet attractive flavour. It was a perfect complement to the fantastically cooked beef that melted in our mouths right away! It takes a lot to achieve a dish like this and we highly recommend this dish to everyone!
(5) As to the sets available during lunch, there was the Assorted Sushi set ($118). You can let the waiter know what sushi you want and what you don't eat. They were generous as to the size of the sashimi on top of each pieces of sushi.
(6) The Chiroshi set ($128) is Sliced sashimi in rice bowl and this included sea urchin, salmon, and mackerel among other delicious and fresh pieces of fish.
VERDICT
Ambience: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Service: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Food: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
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