Skewer indulgence: six Japanese grill restaurants in Hong Kong
Whether it's a yakitori, yakiniku or kushiyaki restaurant you're after, we've got you covered.
It's hard to beat Japanese grilled food for freshness - especially if you get hands-on and grill it yourself. Whether it's yakitori (grilled chicken), yakiniku (Japanese-style Korean barbecue) or kushiyaki (encompassing different meats, seafood and vegetables) you like, we've covered them all. Here are six places in Hong Kong we've reviewed in the past 12 months. Click on each headline to open our reviews.
Yakiniku Great specialises in lean cuts
The thinly sliced misuji beef, which we cooked for three seconds on each side ..., was very tender and fatty
Toritama serves a wide variety of tasty innards
Our favourite skewers were the liver, which was succulent, with a deep flavour, and the aorta
Keyaki only offers grilled foods, but does them well
Miso pork ribs were fantastic — tender, with a great flavour, and we considered having another skewer
Shiba, Kennedy Town - Japanese skewers
Grilled ginkgo nuts were fantastic; they had a slightly chewy texture and the grilling intensified the flavour
Yakiniku Futago HK offers quality barbecue
Beef with sea urchin was unusual and delicious: the waitress seared the thinly sliced meat
298 Nikuya Room, Central - yakiniku
A5 Miyazaki prime kalbi made my guest exclaim, "This is as good as you'd get in Japan", and indeed, it was
