Kaneko Hannosuke Review

This place is still new so decided to come try. Before trying I’ve seen not so good reviews and my brother did tell me that people said it’s not good. I still want to try since everyone’s taste is different. And I understand why people think it’s not good, keep reading, you will find out. The place wasn’t very big, it was packed when we got there, good thing they had a table so we didn’t have to wait. When we finished, we noticed there were people waiting at the door and outside, kind of crazy. I also didn’t know they had a bar area at the back until later. Their washroom, looked like a normal wall which was interesting, you have to push open. Service was ok.

Anyways, we ordered the special tempura bowl ($15.95) and the premium ($18.95).

The bowl wasn’t that big but ok, it looked fancy. I decided to take the tempura off the bowl and put them on the plate. When I touched it with the chopsticks, I already knew why people thought it wasn’t that great. It was NOT CRISPY! It’s a tempura restaurant but your tempura are not crispy. How is that even possible? I think it’s because they added the sauce onto it so the crispiness is gone? Some part still had a crisp but most didn’t. The 2 best things that I liked were the fish and prawns, the flavour was quite good on those. The scallop one was ok too. I thought the egg, 2 green beans and seaweed was a waste of our money.

The rice was normal but quite good with the sauce. There was only a bite of sauce at the bottom which I thought was not enough. It was quite dry near the end. They should have sauce or something else to dip in on the side like the ones in Japan. The sauce taste was not bad.

There were instruction on how to eat the whole bowl. You eat some tempura than some rice and leave the egg until the end. We didn’t follow, I stirred the egg in the beginning. I think I understand why they said leave the egg till the end. The rice were quite dry at the end, the egg is soft boiled so still very yolky, it will coat the rice and make it moist.

They gave radish and ginger as sides and it’s refillable. I was thinking if it is, why don’t you give us more in the first place. The ginger were those sushi ginger and the radish was sour.

They had that 7 spice pepper and we were trying to figure out how to open it and the man from next table told us to pull this circle stick part out. It was one weird design. I don’t think I would have figured it out on my own since I’ve never experienced one before.

Overall, don’t waste your money, I wouldn’t come back again and they gave out stamp cards. Save your money to try one in Japan. I’ve tried something similar in Japan but only the tempura, not with rice. I felt like I paid a lot of money just for a bowl of rice. With that price, they should have put more tempura, how much does it cost them?