This is not the teppanyaki experience you get in North America. Don't expect the 'show' aspects…read morelike the onion volcano, tossing shrimp bits into the chef's hat and huge flames. Come here for top quality food with crazy good and fresh ingredients! The pictures will describe better than words but if you like seafood, the options are great. Huge scallops, live abalone (okay, that part was a bit disturbing... they cook the abalone live so it's wiggling to get off the cooking surface...), snails... The meats are equally good, super thinly sliced ribeye which is cooked and then wrapped with garlic chips and scallions and then placed on a piece of bread (it's meant to soak up the oil but I guess you could eat it too!). They also did toasted bread with tons of butter and then added sugar which caramelized. So easy but so good! Epic meal! No idea how people find this place. It's really small, on the 3rd floor of a building and doesn't seem to have a website that I could find at least. The room we were in was private and I'm not sure if all the rooms are like that. They have good ventilation too even though they cook in front of you so you're not too smelly after!

My husband were in Hong Kong City checking out the outlet situation (ISA Outlet specifically) when…read morewe decided we were too far from home to make dinner ourselves and so we would just grab something close before we hopped on the MTR and headed home. Looking on Yelp for "sushi," we found Fukumura in the same shopping structure and although it did not have any reviews, we thought we would go. SO GLAD WE DID! My husband eats sushi and I eat sashimi as a general rule. In both situations, we agreed that this meal was fantastic! Not just kind of fantastic, but "holy crap this fish is so fresh I should slap it" kind of fantastic. The sashimi scallops and sweet shrimp were so delicate and sweet and simple perfection. The tuna, the flounder and the salmon were equally perfect and cut in large fat sizes. We sat at the actual sushi bar and were able to see all the cool rolls and items that the sushi chefs were preparing. Quite the art amongst this group of sushi chefs! We ordered veggie tempura and a bottle of cold sake. Cold sake was presented in a cool serving vessel and kept pefectly chilled until the last drop. The staff was so accomodating and on it at the completion of a dish, refilling of tea or reorder of more sushi. A lot of staff, regularly available, welcoming and helpful, genuinely glad that we were there and happy for our business. The restaurant is not large, seating only 50. It does have a small sushi bar that sits about 10 and also a teppanyaki bar that sits about 10 too. Then there is the small dining room and also appeared to have a private back room of some sort. The low ceilings and the llight wooded walls make the place have a warm feel, but there is no sitting on the ground or anything here in some traditional Japanese spots. This is not a bustling area at 6PM on a Sunday, very dead really. We think this place and the restaurants all around it must have a busy work crowd during mid week lunches and such, for again it was dead when we showed up. The whole plaza around Fukumura appeared dead. But don't let this fool you, this restaurant was great and we would defiinately go back. It is expensive, so be warned. We walked out with a bill around $2200HKD for just the two of us, but you get what you pay for. They do have a $600HKD sashimi sampler that included tuna, salmon, shrimp, scallop, toro and something else. We tend to over indulge when it comes to sushi, so our bill can get out of hand. So if you are not getting out of hand, neither will your bill.

This place was just truly excellent. They say when you're in Hong Kong, you must always look up, as…read moreso many stores and restaurants are above street level. We were lucky to look up and see Bekan. I'm a big fan of Japanese restaurants. There are plenty of great sushi, yakatori and ramen restaurants in Hong Kong, but I've had lots of trouble finding teppanyaki. But my search has ended. We sat at the high bar table near the entrance, and we were treated to an absolutely expert (and charming) chef who clearly knew her stuff! Such care is taken from the first appetizer to the rice and dessert. And the main course is stunningly fresh and impossibly flavorful. Wan Chai is a definite hit or miss, but places like Pirata, the Optimist and Bekan are taking their places as Hong Kong elite!

Hailed from one of my favorite Japanese restaurants Kaika, Chef Eddy has recently joined IE Sushi &…read moreTeppanyaki. With his deep knowledge about seasonal ingredients and his fun approach of sauces, Eddy constantly gives me and my guests surprises to our palettes. If I had to name the dish that wowed everyone, it must be Hokkaido salmon fish roe sushi. From Chef Eddy, we learned that fresh salmon roe is only available for two weeks of the year. We felt incredibly lucky to have savored this sushi's crunchy exterior and its flavorful juice. The next restaurant you should bring your family and friends to? Of course, it is IE Sushi & Teppanyaki.

Personally when I go to Japanese place I prefer it to have an authentic Japanese name, but the…read morebirthday boy picked this place for a birthday celebration. I can see why, as they do lovely fried rice artwork in the end (teddy bear with fluffy bonito flakes for fur and cavier for eyes) so it does make for a memorable ending for a special occasion dining. Another thing the birthday boy loved is that there are lots of toys on display inside the restaurant. I wonder if the name Chiu comes from the owner's name, or his love for Ultraman. This place has a nice assortment of courses for teppanyaki, from seafood to meat. A big warning: if you are uncomfortable with watching your dinner being tortured and dying a painful death, DO NOT ORDER THE LOBSTER. Our chef is great. He doesn't do gimmicky tricks but his hands work the grill with precision and flaire. He's also acutely on top of what's going on. He signals the waiters when our sake runs low, and offers to take a group picture when we are taking pictures among ourselves. He also grills some extra garlic when he sees how popular it is, and gives us extra bowls when he sees us sharing the rice. Myriad little things that get noticed and taken care of before we have to ask. While this place scores low in my book for animal rights (almost dock a star for that but then who am I to judge other culture's dining practice?), it gets points for workplace diversity: there is a female teppanyaki chef, and a few employees with disability.

This restaurant is off the side street from Nathan Road, very closed to the Jordan MTR station,…read morejust pass Austin Road. Owner is also a cooking chef as well, very friendly person. The cooking atmosphere (entertainment) from the other cooking chefs is lacking, have not seen much 'showmanship' as comparing to a Benihana. Lunch prices is very reasonable and the portion is good. Dinner could be pricy depending on what you order. Good selections of Saki. Fairly clean establishment, they also employs several 'handicapped' staff (mute) I give them credit for providing these folks an opportunity to work in the restaurant industry, they are alway smiling and friendly.

It's always a fun time to come here. The first time I ever had okonomiyaki was in Los Angeles and I…read morereally loved it. I was so happy to find this place in Hong Kong and the excitement of cooking for yourself has never escaped me. I am not the most experienced with cooking raw meat although I am getting better as I grow older. The appeal of this restaurant is that you prepare the food yourself and the secrets are just giving you the supplies. Instructional manuals tell you how to prepare the food, for how long you are meant to cook things, and how to use the devices. You have a stopwatch that you are supposed to use to time cooking, but if you are like me you need to practice using it before actually using it. It is a nice place to eat with friends. I am thinking back to all the times I shared with my past coworkers. Life was and is still good.

The tables have a large grill plate in the center, and you can order the batter for the…read moreokonomiyaki, a savory pancake with vegetables (usually cabbage) with meat and seafood, or meat and other things to cook teppanyaki style. Ever itch to get to the other side of the table when dining at Benihana and do some fancy tricks with the spatulas? Here's your chance. For me, it has been a childhood dream of mine, after watching many anime and J-pops, to visit a DIY okonomiyaki shop. We ordered several types of pancakes, as well as some udon to stir fry. We even pan fried the dumplings that come in a bamboo steamer. We ended the meal with the souffle pancake, which is not bad even if it doesn't measure up to ones sold in shops. Overall, it was a fun dinner, great for a casual small gathering. Our clothes did smell bad afterwards though, so don't wear anything fancy. My complain is with the service. Our waitress was just not very friendly nor helpful. After leaving us with the menu for a 15 minutes, she came back and told us that we have 90 minutes to dine and the clock started ticking the moment we sat down. I replied that we had been waiting for someone to come by to take our order, and also needed help navigating the menu (which, while colorful with pictures, isn't very explanatory). My friend ordered a green tea, which the waitress said they don't have. Surprised that the restaurant doesn't offer tea, I checked the menu and pointed to the tea item. That's oolong tea, she said curtly. Okay, that is correct, but she could have nicely asked if we may want oolong tea instead. She also dropped off our orders without much explanation, so we were rather confused as to how to cook our food. Fortunately, a server took pity on us, gave us a step by step, and then set the alarm for us... "flip it after 5 minutes, then reset and flip it after another five". He also helped us with our drink refills, and told us that as it was a slow night we were welcome to stay as long as we wish. If not for him, this review would probably be a 3 star.

This is a special sushi experience that also comes at a special price. By special price, I mean it…read moreis expensive. Sushi Ginza Onodera, with the first opening in Ginza Japan in 2013 and other locations in Hawaii, Paris, Shanghai, LA and NYC following since, is a unique, high-end, exclusive, private, sushi or teppanyaki experience designed for those with sushi dollars to burn and an interest in broadening your palette when it comes to what you think you know about sushi and teppanyaki. This also explains the line up of Bentleys we have seen on the street outside this place as we walk by this spot every day. I think Sushi Ginza Onodera and Teppanyaki Ginza Onodera are in the same location, are the same business entity, but depending on what route you are going might determine then where you are seated in the restaurant and are two different experiences. I think this restaurant brand is actually more known for teppanyaki. We made a reservation. We were casually dressed. Restaurant is located inside the bright blue painted Hotel LBP. Take the elevator you see just to the right of the hotel entrance/corridor at the street level up to Sushi Ginza Onodera. You arrive to a quite, intimate spot, very exclusive and simply decorated. We were greeted and welcomed by hospitable staff. We were eating sushi, so upon our arrival, we were escorted to a sushi bar that could seat about 10 people that was constructed of white washed woods and was very clean/uncluttered. There is no case with fish on display at normal sushi bars, this is not your normal sushi experience. A sushi chef and his assistant arrive after you make a selection of one of the three pre-set menu's offered. You do not pick individual sushi, you select one of three menu's that are already put together. We went with the menu in which the chef puts together his best personal selections that night. We ordered sake to get us started. Throughout the evening, we are eyed and overseen by a staff member who is virtually standing at our shoulder to offer a napkin, explain a piece of sushi that has been presented, warm our tea, fill our sake glass, etc. They are dressed in black suits and ties, which seems all very formal and also all very "Men in Black," short the black Ray-bans they wear in the actual movie. Their English is 50/50, but they are all very kind. After ordering our pre-set menu selection, the sushi chef shows up in front of us and starts working. He seems friendly, he speaks limited English, seems like a maestro and is working so effortlessly, so delicately, so precisely on preparing each and every piece we will consume. Delicately prepare, grind out fresh wasabi, make it picture perfect, present to us to eat. One piece at a time. Repeat. Delicately prepare, grind out fresh wasabi, make it picture perfect, present to us to eat...repeat. Drink some sake...repeat. The experience of watching this sushi chef prepare our meal was mesmerizing. He was so exact, he was so caring with each sliver of fish, he was so precise. I could sit there and watch it all day long. It his apparent that he is really an expert at this craft. The experience of eating here takes a bit of time. We maybe had 10-15 different sushi selections and each seemed like sushi items we had never consumed. Silver fish, needle fish, monk fish liver, the rare rare rare trans-sexual like salmon that is like 1 out of every 10,000 salmon on the planet in which a male gives birth to a salmon...we only understood about 10% of what our "Men in Black" host was trying to explain about this, but we took a photo of the license associated with this one fish we were consuming. Each piece of sushi was unique and beautiful and made with our sushi chef's exquisite skill. They make the wasabi fresh by rigorously spinning out the wasbi root right there on a board in front of you and continually does so throughout the night as more wasabi is needed. When he then pulled out the one fancy sword that is used to only cut tuna....I think I might be dreaming and this is not really happening. Just a very interesting, very special sushi experience. I feel like our repertoire of sushi knowledge has grown exponentially since dining at Sushi Ginza Onodera. Our experience for two, including two bottles of sake came to $4750HKD. We are glad we went and absolutely understand how special this chef and this experience is. It is an absolute 5 Star Yelp experience, but more due to quality, experience and exclusivity versus value and quantity. My husband and I indicated that we would come back sometime to enjoy the teppanyaki experience, but we most likely would not be back for the sushi experience. It is a pricey bill for two on a random Saturday where I am in a t-shirt and my husband is in flip-flops (I think you can be super casual or dressed up, either or). We appreciate the experience, but the cotton might be a bit too tall for our preferred sushi expectations.

Located in Ocean Terminal which is a mostly high mall that stretches out for many city blocks on…read morethe 2nd and 3rd floors and threads through the hotels along this street and is conveniently next to the terminal that can take you anywhere in China. This mall has all types of high-end stores that can rival anywhere in the world. Was invited here last year by some very good friends and really enjoyed my first visit to Gyu-Kaku as I had no idea what this place was all about. We ended up waiting for over an hour since this place was so busy but it was worth the wait. Entrance to this restaurant is located on the 2nd floor among many small shops so even while waiting, you can browse all the different stores. Bathrooms are in a corridor general area where mall goers will use as well. We had an assortment of veggies, seafood and meats; they were all quite good but my favorite were the short ribs. If I go back to this location in one day, I would definitely make reservations prior.

My boyfriend and I was in Hong Kong on vacation and kept seeing this ad in the subway about the…read moredragon ball event that Gyu Kaku was having. So we only came to try this place because of the event. The wait was LONG. We waited like 1.5 hours just to get seated. And the place closes at 11pm. So when it was finally our turn to get seated, it was nearly 10pm. They did rush us to eat fast because they were closing. We just ordered mostly off of the dragon ball even menu so we could get the free stuff it came with. They did run out of a lot of the merchandise so that was a bummer. Overall, my boyfriend and I spend almost $200USD on our meal. The meat was super tender and tasty, so we thought it was worth it.

#ThrowbackThursday - Remembering Hong Kong…read more.. Conveniently located at Nathan Road near the Tsim Sha Tsui MTR station, we decided to have our final meal in Hong Kong at Daikiya Japanese Restaurant. It's a very solid all-you-can-eat option with two thick notebooks of pictured items to choose from. The raw and the cooked, the fish and the meat, the meal and the dessert... Sashimi - The usual suspects abound (tuna, salmon, yellowtail, etc.), but they also have hokkigai (surf clam), amaebi (sweet shrimp), Hokkaido hotate (scallop), and nishin (Japanese herring with roe). Served on a bed of ice and decorated with artificial flowers, each platter was well-plated... and delicious! Nigiri - There are plenty of winners here, but let's focus on the one that topped the list - Grilled Scallop with Crab Oil and Garlic. Seared enough to give that burnt flavor, dabbed with crab oil, then topped with roasted garlic... Need I say more? This was the highlight of our meal and, yes, my younger daughter and I had this over and over and over! Worthy runners-up - Grilled Flatfish and Prawn with Black Fish Roe. Rolls - An assortment of maki (sushi roll), temaki (hand roll), gunkan-maki (ship roll), and sashimi rolls was on the menu as well, but we were able to try only a few. The Mango and Soft-Shell Crab Roll was too small and had more cucumber than anything else. There simply were better options to be had. Grilled - Surf and Turf! Shrimp, scallop, oyster, lamb chop, beef, chicken, pork, and even pineapple. The best dish was the Sautéed Diced Beef with Garlic. Perfectly seasoned and cooked medium, these beef chunks were so tender and tasty! Dessert - Gotta save room for some (or all) of these - mochi, macaron, ice cream, tiramisù, brownie, crème brûlée, fruit, nut, and so on. We indulged in their special Milk Top, which had a limit of one flavor per person. We tried the Romantic Moment and Green Tea Harmony, which had soft-serve ice cream, red bean/paste, mochi balls, jellies, and rice crispies. The only way to cap off an AYCE! After restocking on calories, we were ready to head back to the hotel and then to HKIA. Daikiya was just what the doctor ordered to fill up our bellies before leaving. We totally enjoyed our stay in Hong Kong, but we had to wrap up our adventure. It was time to say goodbye... for now...

OHHHH MYYY GOOOOD... It's one of my best meals in HK, amazing!!!! I've never been to an AYCE like…read morethis, putting Vegas buffets to shame. No wonder HK is the paradise for foodies! 1) The menu was extensive, almost overwhelming (there are 2 books), including sashimi boat, nigiri, tempura, seared fish, hand rolls, California rolls, desserts, anything you can think of! My eyes lit up when I opened the menu like I saw gold. 2) The food quality was very good for the price we paid. Everything raw was fresh and chilled and the rest were all served hot and steamy. 3) Service was super efficient and courteous too. They tried to fulfill all your requests. 4) It can be packed so book an early table. 5) You won't break your bank here to be able to enjoy a quality AYCE. We were all so full at the end. I can't wait to go back next time I'm in HK! I hope they stay in business for a while and keep the quality up! **** I heard the other locations don't taste as good so not every Daikiya is the same.