A part of the Japanese genius which Western people so admire is the ability to create (artificial) islands of calm, in the midst of crowded urban city scapes. Sansui, in the Stamford Plaza Hotel, is such a place.
The restaurant is one long space with high ceilings and large windows. Their menu contains both haute cuisine and more substantial fare. Ever wondered what Japanese meat-and-potatoes would be like – if the Japanese ate meat and potatoes? It’s on the menu. Not sufficiently “Japanese”? Fine, try the ethereal-sounding ume kurage – jelly fish with plum sauce.
Interesting appetizers : chikuzen-ni (boiled chicken cooked with lotus root and bamboo shoots), and the takenoko sausage (sausage with bamboo shoots). A La Carte : saba shioyaki and the samma shioyaki, respectively mackerel, and mackerel pike, grilled with salt; (…try rolling these off the tongue when you order). For “fusion”, there is Sea Urchin in Cream Sauce Spaghetti, under the Specials section – a delicious food, and one loved, both in Japan and Italy ! Round the meal off with either a kashiwamochi (sweet rice cake), ohagi (rice cake with red beans), or an ice cream tempura. Good, hearty Japanese food.
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Mr Marky, 1 year ago
I am going there tomorrow, so how should I know if this restaurant is good or not? I assume it will be very delicious, based on the fact that I think it will be very delicious. I recommend ANYONE, except for people who dont want to go, to go to this fabulous place. I hope it will be fabulous. It is the best place that I have ever not yet tried.
Good luck, and always be wary of the little green tomato
Lawrence, 3 years ago
The space was really nice. You entered downstairs via a rock garden and went up a set of stairs into the restaurant. Once inside you hardly felt you were in a side ally in the Auckland CBD.
Vanessa, 3 years ago
All of the food was presented beautifully, and was uniformly excellent. (I am not a big fan of Green Tea ince cream, but that