Sushi-Hiro has received good comments and reviews online which prompted us to give it a trial rather than the usual Kiraku restaurant we went before, located just a few shops down the street.
From outside Sushi-Hiro looks rather boring and uninviting as you hardly can see what is happening inside.
To the left of the window shop display, there are some Japanese gourmet food models which look quite real at fist sight.... they look delicious, don't they?
We were then led to our reserved table at a corner, with me facing the sushi bar counter where the chefs prepare the food. The decoration inside the restaurant is so much better and relaxing.
There aren't many tables actually due to the limited space available. I think overall only 4 tables with seats between 2 to 4 per table. There are further chairs near the sushi bar counter cater mainly for individual customers. Majority of the customers are Japanese, although there are still non-Japanese customers like us.
We were then given a menu and an order form together with a pen to tick for what we wanted. Looking at the menu the choices were quite limited, compared to Kiraku. It is not difficult to summarise that this restaurant is mainly specialising in sashimi (raw fresh seafood), and the only hot dish available is miso soup. Browsing through the menu for few more times we finally made up our minds....
So as the starter we had the miso soup which came with 2 small clams and spring onion each... nothing too fancy but tasted nice.
While waiting for our next dishes, I could see the chefs were busy preparing our food. All the ingredients were displayed at the counter bar and they would then select whatever the ingredients to go with it.
Within 15 minutes our meals were ready and here we go...
The first dish was the set meal in a round Japanese lunch box style with rice filled underneath and 12 selection of the sashimi, followed by the normal 6 pieces of sea eel and cucumber sushi rolls. We also ordered 3 other individual dishes from the nigiri range.
The last dish on the table was another sushi roll range with various ingredients including prawn, mushroom, pickled vege, cucumber and something else which I could't remember. This sushi roll tasted quite sweet for some reasons (must be one of the ingredients) and as you could see a very big portion!
The dishes we ordered didn't seem a lot but believe me, we were so full after finishing all... I think this was mainly because of the amount of rice we ate! Luckily after the meal we had a bit of exercise by strolling back home.
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