Quite unexpectedly, some of the best Japanese restaurants I have ever frequented are in Wuhu.
The one I like the most is on the top floor of Huayi, a large and expensive chain store (something like Harrods I would think).
This Japanese specializes in Tepanyatki? (Japanese/Korean barbecue) although it is run exclusively by Chinese interests. You sit around the barbeque and the chef barbeques the delicacies of your choice on the large stainless steel, hot plate. It is a real art form, fascinating to watch and the greatest appetite enhancer you can imagine. I am really fond of the lightly grilled goose liver on a thin slice of whiter bread…unbelievable!
You can’t fault the freshness of the sea food produce either even though we are 400 kms. away from the nearest sea in Shanghai. I saw a live lobster served to table yesterday in a most artistic manner with its tentacles still moving…a bit cruel really but the Chinese like it fresh from the water.
Wondered whether the lobsters (or crayfish as we Aussies call them) had been imported from my small coastal town of Apollo Bay that still has a small crayfish fleet as a mainstay of local industry.
Anyway, eating as much as you can stuff in, washed down with several quality beers and a wine comes to a little over US $24 which is a fortune by local standards and doesn’t really fit my pay packet either but I know for the same quality and experience back home I would part with several times more, so, sorry folks I will just have to continue to live the hog life as long as I can.
Hope you like the pics.
Zhang Qi
A mouth-watering report on what must be an entertaining as well as delectable experience. It sounds as though you may be on the way to becoming one of the regulars at this restaurant in the Harrods-like establishment. It’s all very tempting, John, to cash in some super account lying about in my desk drawer so I’m able to fund a short visit to Wuhu; you’ll be able to show me the sights, the restaurants and, if you know of any, the avant garde artists. A note about the crays: check the base of the left feeler, if its branded with a tiny AB you can be sure its from those crusty locals working in the packing house by the jetty at the Bay.
LOL the lobster branding 1 You are welcome Guenter, best time is Autumn festival in October, I will give you some dates soon. Cheers John
Kind of surprising, i thought the Chinese and Japanese wern’t the best of buddies. However you did say they were run by Chinese who are very enterprising.
When it comes to making money June old enmity does not stand in the way!
Yum!