Long Sushi

Last night we went to this sushi shop, which got famous when it was still in Yuen Long, the far-away-from-city-center new town. Now it started to grow and opened a few new branches, and we finally came to this new one in TST.

It was actually a special day for my best friend, and I didn't want to ruin his birthday dinner. Unfortunately I saw some negative comments on the web on this restaurant, and that killed a little bit of my appetite. Thank God it was more about services, and then I was prepared. Let's go to the sushi!

The famous sushi here is the long sushi, invented by the owner of this restaurant. They made this up because they thought they could wrap the whole rice with just one single sashimi, and enjoy the whole taste of the fish on it.

The sushi was okay, not to the level that I could scream. The fish was also fresh, but not incredible fresh. The experience of being long? Just so-so. It sounds a bit better if you can eat it in another way: cut the fish at the top to half, then eat it as one sushi with one sashimi. After all, most of the people don't have such a big mouth to swallow the entire thing.

I personally like the smoked eel most, but the salmon was not bad. Still, everything was typical in taste, not enough to stimulate my taste buds to the climax.

We also ordered two hand rolls, one is the roll with deep-fried oyster, one with foie gras and sea urchin sashimi on top.

I ate the latter one (focused one in the image), and the taste was funny. The foie gras was good and the urchin was okay, but then they were mixed together, the combination tasted funny in the mouth. Not bad, just funny. At least, the foie gras was really fried and hot. I would throw up if both toppings were raw. Just too weird, right?

Then two hot dishes arrived. First one is the small beef sashimi, and the second one is baked mushroom with butter.

The first one was not good at all. I guess it was too raw that it was too hard to chew and swallow. The taste was not bad but when it felt like chewing gum after some time in the mouth, you just wouldn't like it. The mushroom was okay, just a bit too salty to me.

Overall, the meal was average, and I didn't see why there were long queues before. One can find much better sushi in the town! Perhaps it is the price, since we just ended up HK$200 per person. If you need some casual Japanese food without much expectation, this may be a choice for you. Interesting enough, there are other things in the menu which are completely non-Japanese: cappuccino puddings, lamp chops...guess if you have a friend who hate Japanese food, he can still order something in here, haha!