hanno wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 7:27 am Fuji Japanese Restaurant
Second Floor AEON 1, 12301 Street 3, Phnom Penh
Monday to Sunday from 09:00 to 22:00
Tel: 010 700 472

Food: 2/5
Service: 3.5/5
Value for money: 2/5
Ambience: 2/5

I do not like eating in malls, but we were meeting friends to watch a movie, a movie that is almost three hours long (Mission Impossible, if you must know) and I needed some food. After cruising the food court 3 times without finding anything that looked even remotely edible, I settled for the Fuji restaurant, figuring it cannot be all that bad.





It was only when I opened the menu that I realized that the restaurant is part of a Thai chain with, apparently, over 100 restaurants across Thailand. I should have gotten up right there and then; the only thing worse than a mall restaurant is a chain mall restaurant. But I was running out of time and so I sat tight and ordered.



I ordered a seaweed salad ($3.00), Takoyaki ($5.00), and the Premium Sashimi & Sushi Combo ($18.00) along with an Angkor beer ($3.00). All prices are excluding 10%, so not really all that cheap. I had read quite a few comments about how slow the service was, but the food arrived within 20 minutes, which I guess is not too bad.



I first got the Seaweed salad. Not tasty at all and a tiny portion, barely a fork full. The Takoyaki were obviously mass produced and out of the freezer. Again, little tasted and I suspect that the octopus was probably some sort of substitute or pressed fish. Hard to tell as there was zero taste of octopus or anything else, for that matter.



The biggest disappointment was the Sashimi and Sushi Combo. I did not expect anything great, but what I received was taking the piss. Who the hell puts crab sticks on a sashimi platter? Crab sticks are to seafood what Lipton is to tea: whatever is left on the factory floor at the end of the shift is swept up and pressed into something barely resembling food. The tuna was pretty much inedible, tough, and dry. There was also lots of nasty fish roe and the salmon was not much better. Even something simple like the maki was a disaster. This was touted as the Premium platter; I hate to think what the regular sushi and sashimi taste like.



I suggest you eat before going to the cinema, or at least not eat at Fuji. The best part of the meal was the beer, though $3.00 for a beer in a mall is steep. But then the food is not exactly great value for money either.