Ohsho Japanese Restaurant

I was excited to take my family here for a night of Japanese food however I found myself eating Chinese food. Don’t get me wrong, there was nothing ‘wrong’ with the food, it didn’t taste bad but, it just was NOT Japanese food. If this restaurant had marketed themselves to be a Chinese/Japanese fusion restaurant I wouldn’t be as disappointed, but they market themselves as authentic Japanese food so I was slightly infuriated when we ordered pork ribs as a main, and it came out with Chinese Five Spice sauce. Why???! Chinese Five spice sauce is a very pungent traditional Chinese sauce, never in history did Japanese cuisine use this kind of sauce in their cooking so why is it used here😡? Also why is hoisin sauce used in their dishes? The dishes we’ve ordered should be cooked in a sweet miso sauce. Why change it?? And why is every dish resting on a bed of carrots and broccoli like a Sunday roast?😳 For a family of 5, the bill totalled $350.00 which was extremely expensive for Chinese food. Once again, there is nothing terrible about this restaurant, it’s just not Japanese. If you want authentic Japanese, go elsewhere.

What a chaotic mess service was. The girls serving, whilst doing their best, were severely understaffed and lots of things missed. No cutlery, dishes not arriving until we asked 5 people for over an hour. In the end we got up and left because getting takeaway would be a much nicer experience than the chaos this restaurant is. Hire more staff!