asiri ~ HOKKAIDO Dining & Bar ~ — Restaurant in Hong Kong Island

Asiri is a homey Japanese cafe/restaurant in Quarry Bay run by Japaneses. I was told more than once that if you want to see how good a Japanese restaurant is in Hong Kong, take a look at how many Japanese customers are dining there. If there are some Japanese customers in the restaurant, it means that the restaurant is doing a great job and is serving authentic Japanese cuisines that even the local would go for it. Asiri is definitely a good one, as I can see quite a number of Japanese families dining there during my visit, probably also because Quarry Bay is a popular district for Japanese in Hong Kong.

The soup curry set came with a nice potato salad as starter. The potato mash was so delicious with diced egg inside. The salad dressing was great to make the veggies more acceptable to veggies haters like me. The whole salad was quite filling indeed.

I came for this signature soup curry which comes from Hokkaido, Japan. A friendly waitress taught me how to enjoy soup curry best. It’s actually like a rice version of tsukemen. You use a spoon to scoop up some rice, and dip the rice in the soup curry to eat it.

The soup curry was very delicious! Its texture and taste is thinner than ordinary Japanese curry, yet it’s a novel dining experience. A bottle of spice powder was provided if you want to top up the spiciness of the soup curry. I did try some of it and it was good.

The grilled veggies picked up the curry flavour from the soup. Yum! What’s best, there was a whole chicken leg hidden under the veggies! The meat was tender and flavoured, unlike those dry ones found in Chinese soup.

The whole set was very filling and definitely worth the price. For HKD$108 you get a salad, the soup curry rice and a drink. What else can you ask for? I saw some other customers ordered some nice fried fish and stuff, I might as well try...

Asiri is famous for soup curries.

My first soup curry was at SAMA and since there is another restaurant doing soup curries, I had to check it out.

At Asiri, there is a choice of chicken, fish or veg.

You get potato salad with the curry.

Japanese potato salad can not go wrong as it always has a strong potato taste with a nice touch of mayo.

Chicken Leg curry:

The curry was quite similar to the one at SAMA but the aniseed spice is stronger.

It is not spicy so they give you a separate chili powder to add in.

The taste was ok without so I didn't use the chili powder.

Also had the grilled fish with rice but it was a...

A friend brought me here for dinner and it has since became my comfort food. Something about their soup curry taste so comforting and warm. Especially if you’re under the weather, its perfect.

I had the crispy fried fish soup curry and it was good! The soup was flavorful (sort of a mix between refreshing tomato soup with a hint of japanese curry) and wasn’t too thick or heavy. Soup contained a bunch of veges and potato, daikon. Fish was well fried and doesnt smell or taste fishy at all.

Also had the wasabi octopus - the wasabi was not overpowering and you could still taste the sweetness of...