A pâtissière, eating around the world
![[Shanghai] Restaurant Week 2010](https://www.sugarednspiced.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/eat1.jpg)
Shanghai Restaurant Week is upon us again. At the time of this post, some of the most popular restaurants (e.g. Sir Elly’s) are already fully booked for all 14 meals during Restaurant Week. Since cancellation is rare for these restaurants, the best you can do right now is to go through your list of foodie friends…Continue Reading “[Shanghai] Restaurant Week 2010”
![[Shanghai] Sushi Oyama 大山鮨](https://www.sugarednspiced.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/39142_652566893564_1310603_37251551_2382727_n1.jpg)
Sushi Oyama 大山鮨
Add: 2/F, 20 Donghu Lu, near Huaihai Lu / 東湖路20號2樓, 近淮海路
Tel: 5404 7705
Hours: 5:30pm – 10:30pm (closed Sunday)
Price: 800 RMB/set menu, drinks extra
Visited: Aug 2010
The opening of Sushi Oyama, a 14-seat Japanese restaurant upstairs of the popular el Willy, was an exciting affair. As far as I know, it is the first omakase sushi restaurant in Shanghai, where you are at the mercy of the chef to serve you whatever he’s got based on market ingredients. Sushi Oyama works with seafood directly imported from Japan, and the menu changes nightly. You don’t have to worry about what to order because you don’t. Just sit back, relax, and let Oyama-san do his magic.
We started off with sake and were presented with a selection of cups to choose from – a small detail that made the meal feel more personalized. Oyama also offers shochu, plum wine, beer, and wines from Torres and el Willy downstairs.
Tonight’s Menu
1. First shot – clear broth of clams
2. Sashimi plate – sweet shrimp, Hokkaido scallop, medium-fatty tuna, yellowtail, and ???.
3. Vinegared seaweed with yam
4. Sushi: medium fatty tuna, mackerel, sea urchin, grunt with scorched skin
5. Cod fish with pomelo black pepper puree
6. Salad
![[Shanghai] Big Apple](https://www.sugarednspiced.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/big-apple.jpg)
Big Apple
Add: No. 103, Bldg 6, Golden Lion Garden, Lane 99 Ronghua Xi Dao / 榮華西道99弄金獅花苑5號樓103室
Tel: 62193803
Price: 50 RMB/person
Visited: Aug 2010
If you happen to be in Gubei area, Big Apple is a small Japanese restaurant with excellent ハンバーグ (hamburger patties served without the bun) that you must try. My favorites are the cheese hamburger patty and the Japanese-style hamburger patty. Tender, juicy, full of flavors!
I usually order the set, which comes with soup (vegetable or cream of corn), salad, the hamburger steak, a choice of rice and bread, and a dessert (ice-cream or pudding). Other than the hamburger steak, everything else in the set aren’t really all that great, but they make a nice meal altogether.
Japanese-style hamburger steak (50 RMB with set).
Hamburger steak with egg (50 RMB with set).
![[Shanghai] Nepali Kitchen](https://www.sugarednspiced.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/RIMG2890.jpg)
Nepali Kitchen Add: 819 Julu Lu, near Fumin Lu / 巨鹿路819号, 近富民路 Tel: 5404 6281 Hours: 11am-2pm, 6-10pm Price: Brunch 55~70 RMB/person, Dinner 100~200 RMB/person Visited on: Aug 2010 One of the older and more affordable establishments in the Julu Lu/Fumin Lu vicinity, Nepali Kitchen serves – you guessed it – Nepali cuisine: curries, lentils, lamb, and…Continue Reading “[Shanghai] Nepali Kitchen”