Edo Shiki

It’s not often that you see both Japanese and Chinese food being offered side-​by-​sde. Sushi, bento, donburi, and dim sum all make an appearance at Edo Shiki in Forrest Chase, and I re3ally wish that I could like this place more than I do. Sadly, it’s not spectacular.
The staff are brilliant. They try to make conversation and they’re very polite. They may be a little hard to understand due to thick accents, but they’re fantastic anyway. The attitude of the workers can often make or break a place, and in this case they’ve done very well.
The seating, however, is lacklustre. Bar style seating means that a group of 2 people is ideal, otherwise you’ll be talking through people. Edo Shiki has a slightly Japanese atmosphere, but it makes no attempt to hide the fact that it’s a business. This is sad, especially after some of the décor I’ve seen around other Japanese places recently. Boxes of drinks sit stacked on the floor at the side of the room, tissue boxes are spread around the restaurant instead of napkins, and sauces are kept in kids’ water bottles. This gives the atmosphere an air of unprofessionalism and makes it feel like a really low-​budget joint.
The sushi train moves a little too slowly for my liking and I wouldn’t want to wait for a specific item to come around. Things like sushi and dumplings rotate around the restaurant, but the prices make them a little unappealing. The pork buns had a beautiful filling, but not much of it. This made them taste bland. Also, one of them was really wet and soggy and putting it in my mouth was kind of icky.
The katsu chicken bento box was surprisingly good. Yes, the ‘salad’ may have been a pile of iceberg lettuce and some shredded carrot, but it had a nice dressing and some zest citrus juice. However, like many of the nice things here, there needed to be more dressing. The sushi was pretty standard and the rice was boring, but the chicken was delightfully crumbed and drizzled with an incredible, tangy sauce. Kewpie mayonnaise lay beside the chicken and rounded off the meal nicely.
Like the old nursery rhyme about the little girl with a curl in the middle of her forehead, what this place does well is great, but everything else is boring. That’s not quite the rhyme, but you get the picture. ³⁄₅.

It was weird to have sushi and dim sum in the same place, especially when the steamed dumplings come in the sushi train. Not such a bad idea after all.
I ordered the udon laksa and had a couple of sushi and dumplings (pork and ginger, and prawn and chives). Everything was pretty average and nothing to rave about. The crumbed crab claws were nice.
I went with my daughter and they didn’t have high chairs.
I gave an extra star for the cold Asahi on tap!

I adore sushi trains. It is like the ultimate food porn! Watching a heap of tasty little morsels cycle past whilst nibbling on tapas-​portions. Edo does the train well for the CBD. I would return.

Been here quite a few times now for lunch. Always a place to sit. However they could do with a little more variety in dishes that rotate past.

Edo Shiki is clever in that it serves both Japanese and Chinese food. Amongst the typical sushi rolls are yum cha fare, such as chicken feet, prawn dumplings and barbeque pork buns. Basically, it’s like what happens when Jaws [the Japanese restaurant variety] mixed with a Chinese restaurant. They do both Japanese and Chinese well — their dumplings and pork buns are flavoursome while their salmon nigiri features nice cuts of salmon.
They seem to focus on Japanese food more with their menu heavily slanted towards Japanese food, but for a wider Asian culinary experience, Edo Shiki is a good option. They also keep their sushi cold with cute little gel coolers, and their yum cha fares hot with little burners.
PS: if you’re really keen on sake, they sell sake in 1.5lt bottles.

This sushi spot covers all possibilities.
1) The sushi train is fresh and good value.
2) The hot options are deliciously Japanese for those that don’t know if their in the mood for dimsum or eel.
3) Their bento boxes are superb value at $ 12 (for a change in the CBD)
Their options are simple and simplicity leads to brilliance. Asian food often gets the raw deal (pardon the pun) when it comes to cuisine and food culture but this gem has done something right with deliciously simple noodles served alongside fresh raw fish.
Bravo.

Edo you’re how I roll!
This conveniently located sushi bar (CBD style) stands out to me because it prides itself on it’s freshness. With the drink bar and expected sushi rolls and bento packs it also promotes that any window display can be made «fresh to order» on the day. I see this as a happy compromise from Japan land where food is predominantly displayed with plastic replicas and made fresh to order from that and Aus, where our food will sit in a counter getting more stale (and correspondingly cheaper) until the shop shuts and even the bin struggles to swallow what’s left. (lets look at the trusty sausage roll!)
This sushi is fresh, the avo and salmon roll is my regular order here and while I haven’t had to (nor chosen to) «order fresh» (as the quality from the window is always high) It’s nice to have that option as a just-​in-​caser.
Edo Shiki– Ita daki masu! (thanks for the feed)