Sushi Chika: Simply Horrid

Shop Info:

Sushi Chika / 千賀燒 / Chikayaki

銅鑼灣耀華街3號百樂中心7樓

23 October 2011, Lunch

~$210 per head

A casual lunch on a Sunday with Locust Tunghok.  In short not good but not bad enough to warrant an extended rant.  So a few comments:

1)  What the hell are they actually serving?  The Door says Sushi Chika.  The sign downstairs says Chikayaki, but the first item on the lunch menu is Sushi set... wtf...?

2)  Decor was weird at bast, despite being a comfortable place to sit.  Walls and window blinds were kind of Japanese, or purport to be.  However the tables and chairs are rather western... a strange combination if you ask me...

3)  Staff were rather incompetant.  And rude.  Especially that MK-girl waitress.  Politeness seemed not to exist in her dictionary.  AND she asked us, in Cha Chaan Teng tone, who wanted the coffee and who wanted the ice-cream, despite that the other waitress, who took the order, should have known.  And I heard that MK-girl swearing, loudly.  Now go back to the Cha Chaan Teng where you belong!  wtf...?

Pick-your-sushi set -- 10 pieces including the roll.  $188 + 10%

Eel

One had shell, one not.  If you are gonna remove the shell, go all the way please.  Such lack of care or standard.

4)  Sushi was not fresh.  Salmon Roe was watery.  Maguro was tasteless.  The other sushi we ordered in our pick-your-sushi set tasted pretty much the same, despite being different fishes.  Uni wasn't good either.  Eel tasted OK but from the temperature of the thing it was surely not freshly made -- the question being how long has that been sitting there.  Skill of the chef was questionable as well -- amount of rice varied and for me at least, too small.  Oh did I say the ama ebi fell off... plus the tails were missing whilst bits of shell remained... wtf...?

5)  Wasabi seemed to be grinded instead of toothpaste type, but the bottom of my wasabi mound was mushy... how long have it been sitting there like that?

6)  Miso soup was bland at best.  Gave up half way through.

7)  We should have known that it was not gonna be any good... because on the table was a pack of alcohol wipe for each of us... how Hong Kong style Jap restaurant is that?

8)  They don't seem to wash their spoons properly... the spoon I was given for the ice-cream had sticky orange matter on it... wtf?

9)  None of the staff ever bothered to refill our tea without us asking them to do so... and we were the ONLY TABLE of guests in the restaurant!  WTF???

10)  Finally, the chawanmushi tasted of... yup... M-bloody-SG... a.k.a. 味精 for you.  How much chicken powder did they use in it?  WTF?????

Summary (Rated 1-5)

Food:  (1.5)     Not the worst sushi I've had, but horrid nontheless.

Service:  (1)     The MK-girl waitress made us really quite uncomfortable.  Not proactive in serving at all.  And I heard her swearing, loudly.

Environment:  (3)     

Big Locust's Recommendation:  (1)      Enough said.  AVOID.