Japanese Sashimi Bar Ajimi

I drive past Japanese Sashimi Bar Ajimi on my way to home most days and with the amount of Kanji on the shop front it was easy to mistake it as Chinese who run a Japanese restaurant but how wrong was I! Ajimi happened to be another restaurant that was founded from Night Market. There…

Uncle Testu

  It’s the sensation that swept across the world. The cheesecake that’s limited to one per person. They can only bake 12 cakes every 15 minutes so the queue is long and it’s mad. Expect to wait for 30 -45 minutes. There are madelines as well but we don’t get the Green Tea or chocolate…

Achos

Having been someone who love Japanese food, I have been reading what is happening online for new food space and ideas. I am delighted with the chose at Acho’s. A Japanese “pub-food” that have a huge selection of Japanese sake, whiskey and beer. The menu is full of traditional Japanese pub food in a different…

Maruten Ramen – Mercury Lane Foodcourt

Surprised! Mercury Lane is a run down little shopping area and they’ve done nothing to make it look better. It is not where you think you can find some awesome food – but you can. I used to hang out there a bit and the Thai food is always my favourite. Just how it should…

Kabuki Teppanyaki Restaurant – the Grabone Experience

Disappointing. Yes it was a Grabone voucher deal and it is $39 for 2 people. So what would you expect when you have a menu of: Well $19.50 per person does not equal to poor quality. You leave the restaurant hungry; the food was too salty, dried and over cooked. The staff rushed through the…

Enjoy Yourself Tanoshimu

Tanoshimu （烔饗）， a new Japanese style BBQ restaurant on Dominion Road. The name, also if in Japanese, would be  楽しむ, which literally mean “Enjoy Yourself”. Opened in September and operated by Taiwanese, so therefore the menu is in both English and Chinese. Situated next to my favourite place, Hulu Cat, I was always interested to…

Sushi Room Chancery

Sushi Room is located in Chancery. A little hidden at the moment with all the building work taking place. And even further distracted by the bottle shop next door. Sushi Room is another conveyor belt sushi place located in the centre of Auckland CBD. It is one owned by Koreans, and often run One-Day deals…

Summer Odden at St Pierre’s Sushi & Seafood

Oden is a Japanese winter dish consisting of several ingredients such as boiled eggs, daikon raddish, konnyaku, and processed fish cakes stewed in a light, soy-flavoured dashi broth. Ingredits varies and is often solf from food carts and Japanese convenience stores that have simmering oden pots in winter. Many different kinds of oden are sold,…

Creating that Sushi Train Factory

Conveyor belt sushi (回転寿司 kaiten-zushi, also called sushi-go-round (くるくる寿司 kuru kuru sushi)), or Sushi Train as it is called in Australia and New Zealand, is one of the most popular cuisine in Japan. It is also popular in Korea and is known as 회전초밥 (revolving sushi). Sushi train is a sushi restaurant where the plates…