Known primarily as an all-day hotpot café, Ikkyusan extends over three floors & also spreads its culinary net to take in decent dim sum, Japanese specialities & Thai dishes. On the first
two levels, choose tatami or conventional bistro seating before nibbling your way through har gau dumplings, turnip cakes, steamed ribs or assorted sushi sets. Proceeding to a green curry after raw
fish is no bad thing, & the quality doesn’t seem to suffer from the non-purist approach. On the top floor, in a setting of shabu shabu tables with built-in ceramic hotplates, Asian regulars
show Western friends the way of the hotpot: choose your broth, then add seafood, meat (ostrich & pig’s kidney, as well as beef), leafy veg & mushrooms, with lashings of condiments. Good for
pre-theatre warm-ups.