Food review: Sushi Tei
Name: Sushi Tei
Address: 1 Chifley Square, Cnr Elizabeth St and Hunter St, Sydney 2000
Website: http://www.sushitei.com/
Phone: +61 2 92327288
Type: Sushi restuarant/sushi train
Cuisine: Japanese/other Asian
Opening hours: 11:30am-3pm, 5pm-10pm
Sushi Tei (”Sushi pavilion”) is a chain of Japanese restaurants concentrated in South-East Asia (and even has a branch in Shanghai). Its Sydney branch is conveniently (for me) located at Chifley Square.
Sushi Tei specialises in lightly flavoured dishes that play on the natural flavours of commonplace, perhaps even mundane, ingredients. Its specialties include sushis, grilled rice dishes, and soups. On my most recent visit, the two of us shared a seafood paper hot pot, a salmon steak, a crispy sushi roll, and a soft shell crab sushi roll. The food was not ground-shattering, but I found no major fault with it. The paper hot pot looked elegant, and was delicious, with salmon, scallops, enokitake mushrooms, tofu and some kind of noodly thing on the bottom. I also recommend the sushi selection. Apart from the two mentioned above, the crispy salmon skin makizushi excellently combines the flavour of salmon with a crunchy texture. Highly enjoyable.
My only grumble coming out of this visit, though, is that serving sizes seem to have continued to diminish. I am fairly certain that the last time we ordered the soft shell crab roll, the crab legs protruding from the ends of the roll were not so juvenile looking. Considering the price, though, the meal was still fairly good value. Plus, the speed of service makes the restaurant a good choice for a quick, working dinner.
The best thing about the restaurant is the ambience, which is relaxing even at the busiest of times - with light wooden lattice dividers separating the tables, but not detracting from the light and airy atmosphere lent by floor to ceiling windows. The kitchen is open plan. If you want a better view of the sushi chef in action - at the expense of sitting on stools instead of 60-minute chairs - there is a sushi train counter.
Conclusion: Good value, good ambience, and ideal for a quick, quality meal.
Food: 7/10
Service: 6/10
Ambience: 7/10
Value for money: 7/10
Overall: 7/10
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