7 Japanese Restaurants in Geelong

If you have a love for anything from the sea then Geelong's Japanese restaurants are for you. In fact, Geelong even has its own sushi chain called Hi Sushi with branches dotted all around the area, including in the Westfield Shopping Centre and Waurn Ponds Shopping Centre. Classics like raw salmon sashimi with wasabi, California rolls with crabmeat and avocado, and dragon rolls with roast duck and cucumber are on offer here, as are more substantial seafood dishes such as okonomiyaki (a vegetable and seafood pancake) or the teriyaki sauce hot plate with barbecued fish.

Teppanyaki is a method of of cooking meat, fish and vegetables on an iron grill and some of the best places to find it is in the Japanese restaurants in Geelong including Tomodachi on Little Malop Street which is a traditional izakaya, which is a Japanese version of a gastropub, commonly found in Tokyo. Here you’ll find an extensive range of grilled items like tsukune which are delicious grilled chicken meatballs served on a skewer.