Watami Japanese Casual Restaurant — Restaurant in Kowloon

Not great. Ordered a fried oyster with rice and a iced milk tea. The iced milk tea arrived within 5 mins. No choice of sweet/unsweet. 30 mins later, the oyster with rice was nowhere to be seen. I asked a friendly staff to help, the dish arrived within 5 mins.

The dish arrived eventually. The fried oyster appeared soggy. The rice at the base was wet. I told a bit at one piece of oyster it turned out to be not fully cooked, I could taste the uncooked batter.

I asked the staff to cancelled the order and the meal was never charged in our bill. The stars are given for the staff, with great service and respond, despite the restaurant is very busy, fully seated, that only 3 waiters / waitresses available. It's completely under staff.

If you have time, just walk a little further to Olympic city phase 2 for more choices of...

I still remember when Watami started in Hong Kong, it was quite a fresh experience to customer, that for a reasonable price customer could savour a great varieties of Japanes dishes in this chain Izakaya. As time goes, it couldn't maintain its popularity, and somehow be forgotten in my mind. I haven't been for quite some years.

Today, by chance I went to Watami again and it did not disappoint nor surprise. Again, for a reasonable price you enjoy a reasonably good quality of food, a reasonably genuine Japanese food taste.

Deco and service is not comparable to when it started it business, but they are not off-putting nowadays. Clientele, likewise.

Credit card accepted. The mall offers 2 hr free parking for expenditure over...

It has a big barcode outside of the entrance inviting you to scan to order takeaways - the advantage, according to the poster, is that you can get your food quicker. It took nearly 40 minutes for them to prepare a simple bento and salad! It also says if you pay using hangseng credit card you will get a discount. But in very small print and hidden in paragraphs of dense text, they say if you order by barcode you will not get...