I only see a few mentions of Eika here, so sharing my experience. A few of them felt a little too hot or too cold, but the majority I found to be flavorful and very enjoyable. I also liked the seafood focus of the menu. Overall, would recommend.
I got the non-alcoholic beverage pairing, which had one sparkling non-alcoholic wine to start, and then various teas. They had a few really good things here; I'm glad I got it
NTD 8800 for meal and 2000 for non-alcoholic pairing
In order (and I apologize to the chefs for the inevitable inaccuracies in the descriptions):
- (not on menu) some sort of broth. Almost tasted like pasta water (in a good way)
- Uni on a kombu cracker with kombu topping. Tasty
- Sushi rice wrapped in bamboo shoot. One topped with lobster+something, one topped with marlin+mustard oil. Nicely vinegared rice, very flavorful.
- Eggplant+(frozen) ankimo shavings+koji sauce. This one was icy, unfortunately too cold to taste it very well
- White asparagus + Duck jelly + caviar (mixed together after taking this picture). Tasted good, but not that memorable
- Cold tea (I think it was just an oolong but don't remember)
- Sugar snap pea + amadai soup. Lots of peas, good size piece of fish, tasted good
- Fish with two sauces: Fermented tomato+chili, soy sauce infused with nettle? (or some other thorny Taiwanese plant) This was good. First 5 from top clockwise: Halibut, ika, some taiwanese shrimp, albacore, blood clam, then 3 pieces grilled lightly (can't remember the exact ones; one was kinki, i _think_ one was some local sea bream)
- Threadfin with fermented tofu sauce and some fruit. Relatively large piece of fish, nice slight sweetness of the sauce.
- Fried ball of corn puree with truffle topping + kuromitsu? This tasted like a very nice donut with more flavor (did not get a lot of the truffle flavor, admittedly)
- Eel with beef jus and some egg sauce. This was a little too eggy for me. The eel was nice and crispy (although almost burned my mouth), and beef flavor was good, but somewhat drowned out by the egg
- Fried ball of stingray (kasube?) with fermented cabbage+chili. I would have preferred a different form than a fried ball bc it masked the taste of the fish. The topping was good
- Don't remember what this was. Something cold that felt too cold
- Pigeon with sort of peking duck-esque skin. Seemed pretty similar to duck, perfectly cooked, and not that boney (they removed most bones in the flesh it seemed).
- Chicken broth rice porridge with lily bulbs. Had never had lily bulbs before, but I liked them. Felt like this could've been a little saltier to bring out the chicken flavor but that's probably my unrefined palette
- Ice cream + Roasted ponkan. Squeezed the ponkan over the ice cream. Very good
- Melon + a sauce. It was a good melon but otherwise unremarkable
by cnapun