sen-ryo (Times Square) — Restaurant in Hong Kong Island

Pros: pretty good rolls & cooked items, great dessert Cons: Nigiri quality very average; the restaurant was out of my first two sake choices - including Hakkaisan. Table service was slow

My friend and I came in for a long lunch looking forward to trying Genki's "premium" option. We ran up a $1000 bill on lunch, but this will be unusual.

Round 1 included soft shell crab temaki, agedashi tofu, and skewered pork belly. The temaki and tofu were excellent. While the pork was competently cooked, it lacked flavour. The server informed me that the Hakkaisan was unavailable, to my great disappointment. I ordered a small flask of an underwhelming daiginjo.

Round two featured a variety of nigiri. The rice was fine, though the fish cutting was very "economy" style albeit at "proper restaurant" pricing. The standing sushi bar Sushi Tachi in TST & Mong Kok does a far better/more aesthetic cut. After an extended wait, our ordered hot sake first came out cold before being brought out hot after a second wait.

Round three of gluttony included a return of the soft shell crab temaki and a prawn tempura rice paper roll with mango sauce (utterly delicious).

A round of black sesame ice cream in a mochi crisp provided partial redemption.

Overall impression: might come back for a much more limited roll-based lunch & ice cream, spending the serious dollars elsewhere. I'd rather go back to the cheaper Genki where our spending was much less for a similar gorge-a-thon or else spend marginally more at a proper sit-down restaurant (e.g. Nagomi @ the Harbour Grand HK) that adequately maintains their sake stock. This is a kaiten sushi experience pretending to be something more upmarket, if only in...

Truly disappointed by the repeatedly bad service from the waitress Bi Tang.

I am a regular customer, once I tried to order 10 min before last order during a weekend, she told me it was no longer possible and asked me to leave.

Another time, I ordered the sen Ryo handroll for take away and asked if she could ask the chef to leave out the plastic packaging for the seaweed as I intended to eat right away, during the conversation she turned away and ignored me from one second to the other, leaving me totally suprised. Had to grap another waiter for my request. Once I received the package, I tried to put the soya sauce first before leaving the store, she came up adn asked me to leave immediately while I was pouring, saying there are more customer waiting, while there was no one outside the restaurant. It was 11:30 am at the time.

Her behaviour just leaves me wonder whether the staff has been trained or it's just her personal attitude. One or two times maybe I can let it go, but hostile attitude towards a regular customer who comes at least once a week, is simply not acceptable and should not be tolerated. Definitely not...

Haven’t been to any Sen-ryo, a Japanese sushi chain for awhile and was surprised to find not only do they offer reasonably priced set lunches but with great qualities too.

I got seated right away as I’ve arrived at this Times Square branch right before noon. Was planning to do à la carte as I normally would but the lunch sets menu caught my eyes. They offer a wide variety of set lunches, starting from the cheapest, pork cutlet (HK$98) to the most expensive seared seafood sashimi rice bowl (HK$168). Most sets came with clam miso soup and salad, and for extra 8 bucks, you can get a glass of fruit tea or fresh ground coffee too.

My friend and I tried the daily special seafood sushi set (HK$148) and the hyaku-ryo set (HK$108), for the later, it included a few pieces of sushi & maki, two pieces of tempura and a small bowl of udon. All the food used fresh ingredients, just like those ordered from à la carte. In short, with the qualities and quantities they offered, I think our lunch was a...