Hi Genki Restaurant

Horrible service but pretty good tasting food.Last time I came they took 40 minutes to give food and I found hair in my rice. While I was waiting for the food, they all seemed to be eating a staff meal which I didn’t mind but if they were going to do that I don’t understand why they’d accept us as dine-in customers? They then took 10 minutes to respond to me when I tried to tell them about it.

Delicious Japanese cooking. Tucked away inside a retirement home and beside the cultural centre. Also recommend taking a stroll through the beautiful Japanese gardens right next door.

Perfect comforting food for a cold or rainy day. The food here is delicious and reasonably priced. However, a lot of their menu is deep fried. Everything I have ordered has been good. The spicy karaage chicken don is one of their popular items. The chicken is crisp and quite large. The pork or chicken katsu is good too. However, it does come with quite a bit of rice, I wish they had more sauce to go with it. The ebi cutlet is one of my favourite items. It was light and crispy. It had a different coating than the katsu. With a little bit of lemon juice and tartar sauce, it was delicious.

Excellent spicy Karage Don. Their Korokke is the best I've had. We finished everything because it was so delicious. Plus their price is reasonable compared to other Japanese restaurants.

Only offers takeout for now due to COVID. Food quality still great for family style Japanese comfort food. I always get their pork Katsu curry.

Wonderful not so hidden gem anymore to enjoy authentic Japanese home style foods at reasonable prices. They switch the menu around often which keeps things interesting!

Hi Genki has the best Spicy Chicken Karaage in the World!

Yes this restaurant is attached to an old folks' home--get over it. Because of covid, they have resorted to take out orders only to protect their residents. When they were open, they need to provide food for their residents first. Its not an issue right now as I've never has an order take longer than 20 minutes. One of the reviewers said she ordered at 5:30 and didn't get her order till 8-ish... This reviewer seems to not have a problem complaining, Why didn't you ask about it? They would have promptly got your order out. I have ordered here hundreds of times and not had any such issue. Good homestyle food and when we used to be able to eat there, good service. Never an issue like that.

This place is super hidden away but it's such a gem. So much value in everything they have! Affordable and good quality. Found everything that I had super delicious. A friend brought me here and I was skeptical because it was so out of the way and it was in like an apartment building. But I was pleasantly surprised that this place was so good!

Easy to order online and pick up/pay at the restaurant. Hadn't been here in years, and I know they were always busy when dine in was open. So happy to see the quality is still on par, simple and delicious comfort food. I had the Oyako Don, the chicken was plentiful and so juicy. Family had the Seafood Platter (good variety of seafood and nice tartar sauce, wondering if it's made in house?) and Pork Katsu Curry. Would love to go back for some of their other items!

Long time customer here over 15 years.Never disappointed.Best home style japanese food in GVRD with good prices.

Delicious and hearty portions of katsu curry and katsudon. My first and second time, now I'm hooked and can't wait to try more menu items.

I love getting takeout from Hi Genki and then having a picnic in the park in front of the Nikei Centre. Great way to spend a summer day!

Located in the Nikkei Seniors Residence, on Southoaks just off of Kingsway, it is for good reason that they switched to take-out only long before it was mandated during this period of the pandemic. So we placed our order online, rang the buzzer at the side door at the appointed time (felt a little like a covert operation) and a friendly employee of the cafe brought us our food. Since fried food is best consumed soon after preparation, we had staked out a bench in the nearby lovely garden at the Nikkei Cultural Centre and made a picnic of it. We started with Su Udon. Simple udon with fish cake and crumbs from tempura batter (a little like the crackers you crush up into your soup) in a dashi broth flavoured with yuzu, this is a tasty and light soup with nicely chewy noodles. Very nice! The Aji Fry Teishoku is panko-breaded horse mackerel. It seems to be a traditional Japanese favourite so we decided to order it. The fish itself was perfectly cooked, crispy, moist and light. Horse mackerel is a little 'fishier' than some white fish but very tasty. It is served with tonkatsu sauce which didn't make it into the picture. A little bit of rice and a little bit of salad and you have a perfect light lunch! I was disappointed as I had intended to order Korroke Curry but ordered Korroke Teishoku instead. Same set up as the Aji Fry but with very good potato croquettes. Nothing really to cry about as we enjoyed them as much. We love Spicy Kaarage Chicken and at HG it is very nicely prepared! In addition to crispy hot and sweet fried chicken, there is tasty rice that soaks up the sauce. A little bit of salad rounds this out beautifully. We still wanted to try their Japanese curry and so we placed a second order, this time for the Vegetable Curry. This dish and all our leftovers made the trip home with us and so we had Hi Genki for lunch and dinner. The curry was not spicy but earthy and rich as it should be. It was worth the second ordering process to enjoy it. We don't do dessert very often but the Red Bean Donut was tempting. More of a bun than a donut this was just perfect being not too sweet and made a low key conclusion to our picnic. So we finally made it to Hi Genki after many years and now we can properly call ourselves Metro Vancouver foodies. If you haven't been yet either, they should be on your list.

This was my third or fourth visit to Hi Genki since fall 2020. I had the korroke and the seafood platter. It was great value for money in terms of quality and amount. My food was hot, and ready on time and very tasty. The only thing I would request is that they add okonomiayaki to the menu ?