Excapade Sushi

This time, we went to Excapade Sushi. My fiance and I wanted to eat out before we went to watch the premiere of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, but unfortunately because he was ill, he had to settle for non-fried foods, so we decided to eat here.

This be the signboard of Excapade Sushi. I forgot to change the settings of the camera, so I had to manually adjust the brightness via computer, and this is the best I can do. Excapade Sushi is somewhere within Gadong area, also across the street from The Mall, though I think it's opposite Booker (or maybe not) and is the probably the same row as La Mee restaurant.

This be the entrance towards Excapade Sushi. The staircase is situated in one of those mini corners of the building, but it's not really that hard to find

This be the main layout of the restaurant. As you can see, Excapade is bloody popular and the longest running and longest standing Japanese restaurant in Brunei, with its only rival being Misato situated in Kiulap. No other Japanese restaurant can beat them as they have so many branches throughout the area and has brought down many other small fry Japanese restaurant out of business. You have to make reservations to get a good seat, otherwise you have to wait forever to be seated.

Luckily there were plenty of empty seats at the bar counter, so we sat there instead, since we came in without a booking. Just like any other authentic Japanese restaurants, they have the sushi train where you can get anything you want from there


These area is where you would like to dine among very few friends or if you would like the privacy. At the far end are private rooms, mostly used when you're having big parties or maybe a two-to-two dining together with a special someone, and can only be available via booking, no walk-ins

We usually opt to drink their in-house green tea (ocha) coz other drinks cost a bundle. I like Japanese cups. They're so simple in design yet very worth the use. I enjoy holding it like a proper Japanese would hold: one hand holding the top side of the cup and one hand at the bottom, then the hand on the bottom is the one doing the work pushing the cup to tilt the tea for you to sip. Reminds me of those old-school Japanese people who drink them in elegance

We ordered our food, and one thing Excapade took pride of was the fact that they make their food SUPER FAST! Although that is usually part of the requirement for Japanese cuisines. Sometimes they say speed reduces quality, but definitely not the case for Excapade

Teriyaki Tofu. One of my fiance's fav dish. I'm not really into tofu, but this is pretty good

I totally forgot what is this called in Japanese, but it's basically sizzling fried string mushrooms in butter and teriyaki sauce. It's a recent fav of ours. It tastes pretty good. You have the usual teriyaki sauce taste, and then the buttery aftertaste. Very unique dish. Though I still prefer eating it via steamboat

My fiance ordered gyoza ramen, and ramen always reminds us of Naruto. Unfortunately half of the stuff (like the vegs) he doesn't like to eat anyways...

I ordered sashimi bento, the most expensive bento set in the group. They've got fried garlic rice, an assortment of sashimi and an assortment of sushis, with the usual egg and miso soup, and fruits for dessert. It's the whole package. Thankfully we didn't order anymore side dishes or it would've stuffed the guts out of us

There you have it, Excapade Sushi, probably the best place to sooth your Japanese cravings~! Itadakimasu~!