Originally Posted by
CrackPipes and Kakfights
Agreed. Actually I have only had wagyu outside of Japan once. I had a few too many benzenes in Hong Kong one night and ordered a wagyu steak at oohla in mid levels. Definitely not as good as in Japan. I don't eat wagyu outside of Japan much but when I do it is in a drunken stupor.
True, though I would actually rate one wagyu I've had in HK above the best wagyu I had in Japan. Though I would probably credit it to a good trip to the butcher as other's I talked to didn't appear to have as good of a steak.
Top 3:
1. Some random Argentinian fancy place in Beijing. Cannot for the life of me find the name of this place and it's never even been marked on google maps. I just know it's in a weird circular building next to the world trade center. Cost me about 20 USD and just was true bliss.
2. Manzo in Times Square HK. Mentioned above, place since closed down.
3. Some random upscale steak restaurant in Shinjuku. Can't remember the place but the best wagyu I had in Japan.
Steaks in HK are massively hit or miss. I've gone to one place, enjoyed the steak, gone again and hated the steak.
I've been eye'ing up the Grade 7 Australian Wagyu Tomahawk at the Intercontinental Steak House, but I've heard the quality of that place has gone downhill and the Grand Hyatt is slowly taking the steak business.