Uzushio — Restaurant in Hiroshima

DO NOT GO HERE, RACIST, RUDE, OLD FOOD!!

I went here a few years ago with my 2 Danish friends and it was the worst dining experience I have ever had or heard of in my entire life. Severely overpriced and disgustingly rude, racist workers who keep unfresh okonomiyaki in a bucket, which is why they come out so quickly... that and we were the ONLY customers at 9pm. They forgot the oysters for my okonomiyaki which was the main piece, when I pointed this out the woman said "I'll fry some up and put it on top ok happy now?" And I said no I wanted the famous Hiroshima oyster okonomiyaki, this okonomiyaki is cold, chewy and bland, this is a disgrace to your beautiful city. She said "Suit yourself", and charged me for the oysters as well anyway. When I refused to pay for the oysters that I did not receive she threatened to call the police, and that I should send my foreigner friends back to their country, they only ate a third of their okonomiyaki as well and clearly didn't enjoy it either. It still infuriates me to this day because it is such a let down for Hiroshima, and I have heard so many good things about anything else about the city. Today I looked this place up out of curiosity and found that it has ruined Hiroshima for others too, which is super sad, and I'm disappointed that they are still standing. If you do choose to go there out of curiosity, prepared to be ripped off and laugh about how true the reviews are, it is actually hilarious how consistently terrible they have...

CASH only! But there's no sign!!! We came here bc the place we wanted to eat at had a super long line. They don't speak English here but have a limited English menu, so it involved a lot of pointing and Google translate. The food came out extremely quick and was tasty. They don't cook it in front of you but is brought out already made. They wouldn't let us order more food which was dumb. They were still open at 1pm. I didn't understand why we couldn't order more okonomiyaki or oysters. They kept saying no. No. No. And doing the X symbol with their hands. So we paid and left. Cash only! Which we didn't know until the end. Wish they'd put up an English sign saying this. If we had known, maybe we would have gone somewhere else. Thankfully we had cash. Also, my mom had view of the grill and saw the cook blow his nose and continue...

Oh dear, time to rant. Apparently endorsed by every Hiroshima Carps player since the 80s, if the signed cards on the walls are to be believed, this sad excuse for a restaurant served us a couple of obviously pre-cooked, possibly even from frozen, okonomiyaki, on a plate within a record two minutes of ordering, which was immediately suspicious. We also had a dish of tasteless butter fried oysters. Am sure this place exists only as a tourist trap for those unwilling to wait in line for one of the infinitely better restaurants nearby. Up there with the worst meals I’ve eaten in Japan, and quite literally left a bad taste in the mouth. Over-priced too, but at least the beer was...