宗初食堂 日式無菜單料理 新竹總店 — Restaurant in Hsinchu

RESERVATION ONLY. You have to reserve the table in advance online and deposit 500TWD with credit card. The rest will be paied after meal and it's CASH ONLY. Service was okay. Food was quite a disappointment. Sashimi and lobster were really fresh. The tofu seaweed, hotpot, and beef with potato cheese were good but the rest were quite unpleasant to eat. The fish wrapped in wax paper had a lot of bones. The duck was very chewy, i had to spit 1 piece out because the meat wouldn't break apart. The fried rice was very burnt. The dessert was bland as water. The flat stone pot they used for the hotpot was very annoying because you can only get to half of the pot, the rest is impossible to scoop up. No comment about the ice soup because it didn't suit my taste. Uni is extra charge. Staff will ask if you would like to take a picture of the live lobster and fried rice pot before serving. Reservation was made for 7:30pm but everyone didn't get to sit down until almost 8 pm because the people at 5:30pm weren't finished. No waiting seats outside Also i didn't like the plastic piece they put on the tea pot, looks very...

Each dish has been carefully prepared and crafted, the lobster is fresh, and the tofu flower has been masterfully hand cut to look like an actual flower. I was quite full after the 9 dishes. If you don’t eat raw fish they will substitute it with cooked oyster which is quite tasty and a great alternative. The rolls were my favorite with green tea power and avocado to add a unique fusion of East meets West. Great restaurant for special occasions with ambience...

Not sure why most reviews are 5 stars. I believe the ingredients could be better. I like the sashimi, uni, steam eggs and lobster. The steam egg was with celery which was very impressed 👍 but I don’t understand the deep fried corn. Tasteless but a bit oily. The crab steam rice was plain… The service wasn’t good, the staff poured the soup on the table when he served the...