New restaurants in Hong Kong: Fukuro, SoHo – modern izakaya offers taste of Tokyo with indulgent and delicious dishes
This latest addition to the Black Sheep restaurant group is sure to please. The short, but tempting menu includes crispy caramel butter corn, yaki udon with snow crab, and a dessert featuring black cherry jam and seaweed ice cream
I barely made it through the front door of Fukuro in SoHo before being recognised. I had arrived at 6.30pm to avoid having to wait, as this newest addition to the Black Sheep restaurant group doesn’t take reservations. The place was less than half full when my guest and I arrived, but it filled quickly.
The menu is reasonably priced, brief and tempting, with just a few offerings in each category, which include raw, snacks, tempura, robata, and noodles/rice.
From the raw section we chose the pickled mackerel (HK$138) – six thick, meaty and soft slices of the oily fish served on ice.
From the snacks section we picked prawn gyoza (HK$78), crispy caramel butter corn (HK$58) and Japanese omelette (HK$68). The gyoza were fat, well stuffed and succulent, with thin wrappers. The corn – served on the cob – was addictive. I was worried that it would be too sweet, but it wasn’t. The kernels, which were easy to bite off the cob, were buttery, soft and just sweet enough, with a gentle crunchy coating.