[Review 836] Absolutely rubbish @ 浦和日本料理 Urawa Japanese Restaurant

10/08/2010

浦和日本料理 Urawa Japanese Restaurant
灣仔蘭杜街4號A舖
Shop A, 4 Landale Street, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/absolutely-rubbish-e2107176

Was given a flyer when I walked past, so studied the variety for the All u can eat lunch buffet. It costs $160 per person plus 10% service charge.

For that price, you can get reasonable all you can eat food at places such as Kaneda and this place in Central.
I chose this menu, because the menu was quite extensive, eg sea urchin handroll, goose liver on toast etc.

When I sat down, there were not many patrons there, the waitors laid our table with sauces and green tea.
I looked at the All u can eat menu, it was so flimsy, it was sheets of paper inserted into a plastic album, it had English, Japanese and Chinese, and it was hard to turn the pages as they kept sticking together.
The English-Chinese translations were a bit messed up, some meanings were different.

Anyway like any All you can eat places, I was expecting some pieces of paper for you to tick or write which dishes you want.

At least 4 items were not available, it should have been taken off the list or before we sat down we should have been told.

Unavailable items:
Spicy whelk meat
Pineapple and pumkin salad
Scallop cutlet
Goose liver on toast

When items were served, some items were served sparingly, only piece of surf clam with generous pieces of other sushi.
For the sea urchin handroll, only one was served per order.

If they had two prices for lunch and dinner, they should have separate menus instead of misleading people.

Ordering was difficult, I had to flick their flimsey booklet and order, usually the first round, you want to try everything, but the problem is their booklet pages are stuck together and it was a task trying to remember what to order.

The translations were messed up too, some of the chinese and english were different.

The menu was slightly misleading too, because some paid items were also on the all you can eat page, but you get charged for those items.

The fried items came first, some were overfried, especially the tofu, looking like a cochcroach. The banana tempura was worth trying.
The salmon sushi was not that good, because there was still silver membrane left on it.
The clams were totally tasteless, despite it was presented nicely with fake sharksfin.

The congee was ok.

Overall the environment was ok, the staff were ok, only the availablity and menu was misleading.
The price was too expensive considering the low range of choice.

The paper lantern was interesting, the paper slowly ripping off leaving the lightbulb.