Wasabisabi

Description:

• This stunning restaurant looks like it was airlifted straight out of Tokyo, and like that huge metropolis, it's easy to get lost here. Luckily, staff is on hand to lead diners past the mirrors and corridors that make this place a confusing maze to the dark and cozy dining room, where palm leaves and bare branches form a silhouetted backdrop behind the sushi bar. The menu lists all the usual raw seafood, flown in daily from Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market and offered as sashimi, sushi, and temaki (handrolled sushi), the latter of which includes the Japanese chef's own creations like the avocado and barbecued-eel temaki and the shredded crab wrapped in nori (seaweed) with crab paste. The extensive menu also offers grilled dishes (like grilled black cod marinated in a special miso paste from Kyoto), tempura, and rice and noodle dishes, but for a feast fit for an emperor, try the five-course tasting menu for HK$588 (US$76/£38), which changes every 2 weeks. The restaurant's bar, open until midnight weekdays and 2am on weekends, is a happening place for an after-dinner drink, but you don't have to move to enjoy it: The restaurant's C-shaped sofas can swivel to face the bar.

• © Frommer's 2012

Awards:

Frommer's

•  Highly Recommended 2009
•  Highly Recommended 2010