Hong Kong Cray !!! Nobu InterContinental

By Nicole · On July 10, 2013 3

The Lowdown
Restaurant Name: Nobu InterContinental
Cuisine: Japanese with Peruvian Influences
Average Price per Person: Starting at $120 HKD or $15 USD for lunch and $500 to $1200 HKD or $65 to $150 USD for dinner
Location: Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong kong (please refer to the map below for details)
Recommendations: Pretty much everything we ate.. SCROLL DOWN !!!
Ratings (out of 5)
Taste: 4.5
Creativity/Authenticity: 5
Atmosphere: 4.5
Service: 4.5
Bang for Buck: 4
Crayscale !!!

Nobu’s been sitting on my “To-Eat” list for a minute. I guess I’ve been putting it off just because I had some pre-determined notion that the restaurant would be over-hyped and inevitably fall into that “chain-restaurant” type syndrome. The Nobu Empire is also massive on an international level reaching practically any major city around the world including New York, London, Milan, Dubai, Cape Town, Perth, Tokyo and Hong Kong. I figured that I would have plenty of opportunities to dine at Nobu and always preferred restaurants not so commercial.

Our fellow Albertan homie, Lindsay Jang had introduced us to Nobu InterContinental’s Executive Chef Erik Idos at Pirate Kitchen’s debut where he had cooked up a legit Filipino street food inspired meal. We liked what we tasted so we decided to finally hit up Nobu. As we were flipping through the menu, we had trouble deciding what to order, mainly because we wanted to eat EVERYTHING. We trusted Erik and let him be in charge of making the decisions. Erik’s been in the Nobu family for the last nine years so he’d be the dude to ask what’s good.

Erik did us good and he definitely delivered! Every dish was on point and hit the spot. To be completely honest, there wasn’t one dish I didn’t LOVE. All my previous notions of Nobu had been tossed out the window – I lurvveee Nobu! If you’re in Hong Kong, make sure you hit up Nobu and order off Erik Idos Creations under the Osusume section. Or just order exactly what we had, check it out !!!

Fried Sardine Chips with Grilled Shishito Peppers. Started the meal off with crispy chips made entirely of sardines! Looks and tastes dope!

The shishito peppers were sweet and mild dressed with a citric yuzu dressing.

Yellowtail Sashimi with Jalepeno ($208 HKD or $27 USD).

The yellowtail was hella fresh served with a sliver of Jalepeno which gave it a nice kick without overpowering the fish.

A5 Japanese Wagyu Beef Tataki with Onion Ponzu ($640 HKD or $83 USD).

I friggin’ love Japanese beef, especially #veryrare A5 WAGYU beef. Sooooo tender I could die! This was just a wee bit on the salty side.

Toro Tataki with Yuzu Miso ($398 HKD or $52 USD).

This was one of the most amazing, flavorful tuna belly tataki dishes I’ve ever had. The tuna literally melted in my mouth like buttaah and tasted incredible with the sweet yuzu miso.

Foie Gras and Wagyu Beef Gyoza ($210 HKD or $27 USD). Doesn’t this sound unbelievable? Wait until you taste it! The wagyu beef is tender and succulent partnered with rich creamy foie gras.

Vegetable Kakiage with Spicy Lobster Salad and Uni ($338 HKD or $44 USD).

Another one of Chef Erik Idos’s masterpieces! This would be vegetable kakiage as the base which is essentially tempura made from strips of root vegetables topped with a creamy spicy lobster salad and fresh uni.

Black Cod Saikyo Yaki ($340 HKD or $45 USD). This is one of Nobu’s signature dishes so make sure you order this! Black cod is one of my favorite types of fish and this is absolutely killer.

This would be a TOMAHAWK steak !!! I’m actually not exactly sure if this is even on the menu. Our awesome friend Lindsay Jang of Yardbird told Chef Erik Idos about Eugene’s love for big meaty bones and he cooked up this beast for us!

To top it off, he made it rain truffles all up on dis glorious piece of meat!

It was literally the size of my forearm!

Truffles in every bite and then some!

Suntory Whiskey Iced Cappuccino ($140 HKD or $18 USD). This looked exactly like a cappuccino served in a cup with layers of coffee cream, cocoa crumble, milk gelato and whiskey foam. I’ve been trying to cut down on dessert, but I seriously could not help myself. This was way to effing delicious to pass.

Round N’ Round – frozen cheesecake with raspberry soda and Hokkaido black honey ($140 HKD or $18 USD).

This cheesecake ball was bomb. One of the best desserts I’ve had in a long time.

The cheesecake ball tasted almost like ice cream filled with a fizzy fresh raspberry soda, topped with freeze dried strawberries and surrounded by bits of pongashi (kinda kind Rice Krispies, but bigger and puffier). AMAZINGGGG textures and flavors !!!