You have to love a restaurant where your order lands on the table almost as soon as you’ve handed the menu back to the waiter. The lunch menu offers great value: a set course of fried chicken, braised salmon, rice, salad and miso for about $14. The quality of the cooking is consistently flawless: no wonder the place is packed with hurried locals and Japanese expats.

*Japanese dining Sun is offering a ‘Hokkaido Gourmet Experience’ through 1 December. The ‘autumn menu’ features fresh oysters and salmon miso hotpot through 30 October, while the ‘winter menu’ includes squid filled with sticky rice from 31 October to 1 December. Also on offer are Hokkaido hairy crabs, snow crabs, King crab legs and jumbo grilled Atka mackerel.