Hokkaido Restaurant & Sake Bar
Address
4A/2, 71 Lunn Ave
Mt Wellington
Auckland
09 527 6688
Hokkaido is Japanese restaurant with a mix of yakitori and
sushi dishes. The staff are nice and try
to be customer focused, however, because they are so buys sometimes it might
take them a long time to attend the tables and customers. To me the whole concept of yakitori
restaurant is that you constantly order small portions dishes while you drink
your sake but to place your 2nd or 3rd order in Hokkaido
can be a mission if it is a busy night, so be prepared to wait for a while
before someone takes your order(s).
I personally love Japanese yakitori style food but in
Hokkaido restaurant they serve sushi and stir fry rice meals too.
Food and Drinks
Tuna Kushiage $7.90
On this
plate, you get two pieces of bread crumbed tuna fish meat on sticks which are
deep fried (they look deep fried to me anyhow).
They taste brilliant and the price is very good for what you get on this
dish.
Prawn Tempura $19.00 for 5pcs
We ordered
these as our entrée but they are pretty filling. We nice, crunchy and well cooked.
Squid Karage $12.50
The squid
was nice and crunchy and came with some Japanese mayonnaise. It certainly goes well with the Asahi beer.
Mix Sushi Roll 6 pieces $9.00
You can
chose your sushi from a range of sushi rolls. We chose Teriyaki Chicken
sushi. One of the best sushis I have
ever had.
Eggplant $9.90
The
eggplants were grilled, topped with Miso and cheese and chopped parsley. It is very well balanced dish.
Chicken Katsu $11.50
The Chicken
Katsu is similar to the German Chicken schnitzel (at least to me) with a
drizzle of Japanese BBQ sauce and some salad (tiny amount). It has to be tried as it is a signature dish.
Chicken Karage $8.50
Deep fried chicken. I want to say “bread crumbed” but it looked
more like corn flacked. Bread crumbed or
corn flacked, it was beautiful. Well
seasoned and crispy. Japanese mayonnaise
is served with this dish to complement the crispy, crunchy chickens.
Dessert
Green Tea Ice Cream $4.90
At first I
didn’t think much of this ice cream when it was ordered. However, when I tried
it was a one of the best ice creams I’ve ever had. The first think that came into my mind when
we ordered this ice cream was the tasteless green tea, but the ice cream was
very nice.
Banana Tempura $10
This dessert
is a mix of hot and cold. Battered and Deep
fried banana’s with icy cold vanilla ice cream topped with chocolate
sauce. It’s a great mix and was my
favourite dessert
Over all I
enjoyed Hokkaido’s food and will go back again.
