Wakura Izakaya — Restaurant in Hong Kong Island

Don’t be fooled by the reviews; they don’t seem to reflect the quality of this place.

Came in on a Thursday night, was told that if we don’t have reservations they can only give us the bar table; the place was empty. Weird but ok.

Sake: overpriced, no single servings, no flights available Wagyu beef tartare: a portion for ants, full egg yolk that proportionally overpowered, piece of gristle included Tuna neck: covered in mustard mayo and baked??? Confusing. 5 egg udon: overcooked packaged udon and Uni wasn’t fresh Tuna with sesame and balsamic: only decent dish, but small portions and wrong temperature

The worst part was the food took a long time to come out while we watched 3-4 chefs chatting idly in the open kitchen.

Overall mid experience. Go ahead and...

New Izakaya spotted in the heart of Sheung Wan! Wakura – with a name that pays homage to traditional Japanese architecture and sake collections – presents a modern twist on traditional Japanese dining.

Besides the normal grilled and fried, the restaurant offers a wide variety of fresh and seasonal seafood, stew and sake from prefectures across Japan.

With such homey environment, one can enjoy the taste of delicacy by indulging oneself in the fusion cuisine and selection of sake.

Highlights :

Crab Miso • Turnip • Seaweed Tempura

Gilette Chicken Wings • Spicy Cod Roe

A4 Wagyu Beef Tartare • Seaweed Tempura

Grilled Hanamidori Chicken • Pickled Turnip with Yuzu

Grilled Minced Chicken Skewer stuffed...

ox tongue was super fire wanted to get it again; wagyu tartare with tempura seaweed on the other hand was a huge let down - the portion was super small, flavours were odd and it was too watery, perhaps because there was too much of the soy sauce and the sauce+yolk to beef ratio was imbalanced (really looked forward to it bc of all the positive reviews so we were immensely disappointed). everything else was decent but no wow factors. we ordered a la carte as we made use of the eatigo discount; if it weren’t for the discount i would probably have been depressed as the original price point is rather high and the food doesn’t...