Edo Ichi Japanese Restaurant Bangsar South - Sumptuous Japanese Dinner Review By Best Restaurant

When it comes to Japanese food, the greatest and most fundamental point is the freshness of its ingredients especially those raw delicacies. Best Restaurant To Eat was invited to a special dinner review at EDO ICHI JAPANESE RESTAURANT located at Nexus, Bangsar South Unit G-4 Ground Floor, Nexus Bangsar South, No. 7 Jalan Kerinchi 59200 Kuala Lumpur.

EDO ICHI Japanese Restaurant exudes a modern wood based themed. It is brightly lit and comfortable dining experience with a sushi bar counter for some quick meal.

For some privacy there are special areas where it can sit around 20 people. There are also 4 private dining room where you and your guests can dine in total privacy.

Edo Ichi Japanese restaurant also offers a wide choice of sake for its customers to choose from.

Our dinner review started with an appetizer named SOFT KANI KARAAGE TO SHAKE KAWA SARADA. It is a Fried Soft Shell Crab with Crispy Fried Salmon Skin on a bed of fragrant in-house Goma dressing (sesame sauce).

As it has a little sourish taste, it was a real good starter to entice our taste bud to more varying flavour to come.

The next dish is the star of the night; which is HONJITSU NO TOKUSEI SASHIMI MORIAWASE - It is the Chef’s Special Selection with 8 kinds of assorted air- flown raw fish platter.

This delicacies featured on the platter will be different from day to day based on the season and availability of these air flown first grade delicacies. The eight different kind of sashimi featuring in our platter are the ocean-fresh sea urchin (NAMA UNI), live scallop (IKE HOTATE), pink shrimp (AKA EBI), tuna belly (TORO), salmon belly (SHAKE HARASU), yellow tail (HAMACHI), large-scale blackfish (MEJINA) and striped pigfish (ISAKI).

Each platter is decorated with a fish; quipped the restaurant manager Mr Alex; in which case, ours was the Hou Bou Fish. The platter served was not only delicious but very eye pleasing as the chef have artistically decorated each platter to feast the customer eyes and tummy.

At Edo Ichi Japanese Restaurant, the style of serving are the traditional style (washoku) and the emphasis in on the quality of ingredients and presentation.

The next dish is the KAKI MENTAI CHEESE YAKI, it is Grilled Oyster that is topped With Cod Roe plus mayonnaise and melted cheese paste.

The flavour is quite similar to the Baked Oyster Cheese, but with the additional Cod Roe, it gives you a slightly salty taste, but one that tantalize your taste bud.

As we move to the more flavourful stuff, we then had the EBI NO HOTATE CHEESE TSUTSUMI AGE; it is Deep Fried Prawn & Scallop Rolled with Cheese.

The crisp on the prawns and scallop combination was crisp on the outside, while the fresh bouncy succulent prawn was still moist.

CHANKO KONABE (Shoyu) An assorted Seafood and Vegetable in Hot Pot - is a tantalizing hot-pot with servings of prawns, fish, shell fish, lala, soft tofu, mushrooms and assorted vegetables in  shoyu paste clear broth.

This is then followed by the signature ASARI WINE MUSHI which is Steamed Short Neck Clam with White Wine.

In taste, it is quite similar to the "Seong Tong La La", but with a Japanese Wine, the aroma was slightly stronger too.

One of the specialty in Edo Ichi is the sushi, instead of the nigri sushi, we tried the maki and even this maki is a Fried Maki which is the UNAGI CRISPY ROLL

The fried unagi are rolled in the seaweed; once it is rolled up, it is sent to the fryer; the result, the crisp of the seaweed was very nice to bite at. This roll gives you a different texture and taste as it carries along a slightly salty taste from the frying and mix with the sauce and the unagi, it gives out a bursting flavour on each and every bite.

The last dish, we had for the night is the SURUME IKA SUGATA YAKI - Grilled Japanese Whole Squid. At Edo Ichi Japanese Restaurant; the way to eat it was with the Shoyu sauce with a sprinkle of chilli flakes. It burst out a slight salty and spicy taste to the springy and bouncy grilled squid. 

For desserts, we had the EDO ICHI TEMPURA MOCHI - which is similar to the Chinese Fried "Ning Ko" but here it is using mochi cut into cubes and serves with a nice Matcha ice cream.

And the last dessert is the AZUKI KATSU, which has the mochi filled with azuki beans and fried to a crisp. It is served with the soft Matcha ice cream.

At Edo Ichi Japanese Restaurant it has a wide varieties of authentic Japanese dishes in their menu, we have just tasted only a fraction of it tonight. If you are a true blue Japanese food fan, you can check out the range of foods served here.

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Petaling Jaya: Slurp Cafe @ Dataran 32 (3 Two Square) Asian Japanese Fusion Super Heroes Theme Cafe Review

If you love super heroes like the avengers in particularly Iron Man or Batman or Spider man or even Dragon Ball, you will find the Slurp Cafe located at No. C-16-01, Dataran 32 or aptly known as 3 Two Square No. 2, Jalan 19/1 46300 Petaling Jaya Selangor Darul Ehsan a super hang out place for you.

Best Restaurant To Eat did a review of this restaurant which has its wall decorated with these super heroes figurines and cartoons character. The entire place looks like you are in this special super heroes wonderland, which decals and little figurines of these super heroes.

So, besides having a meal with your buddies or a cup of latte, you can also enjoy the company of these super heroes that are placed all over the restaurant.

Our food review started with the Okonomiyaki - a fusion Japanese pancake which has Squid, prawns and scallop laden with thin Fried Japanese pancake (much like nachos) and top with a special sauce with mayonnaise. Nice snack to start off our review.

followed by the chicken salad - the salad comes with a generous amount of pan fried chicken fillet and half piece of poached egg.

Next dish is the specially concocted Black Omurice; of which the Japanese rice was fried with squid ink noticeably from the black rice as shown in picture above. Taste wise it was delicious and eaten with the special omelette with the special sauce was anything but tasty. 

To eat the Omurice, one has to slice the top layer of the omelette and upon slicing, it will reveal a rich, fluffy scrambled eggs that will cover the rice.

To accompany the Omurice: there are a number of add on dishes; the one that we had was the karrage chicken. The chicken breast was deep fried with a crusty skin texture.

Another interesting twist at Slurp Cafe is the Maggi Murtabak Chicken Patty; it is a very interesting creation of this dish which has a thick chicken patty; topped with a sunny side up and accompanied with potato wedges and salad as sides. To enjoy this Murtabak is really an acquired taste.

This is then followed by another innovative dish which is the Sambal Pasta - Substituting the rice with pasta and ingredients usually found from the local favourite Nasi Lemak; it was a bold yet another surprisingly tasty dish.

The stir fried pasta with sambal was accompanied with fried anchovies, peanut, hardboiled egg, sambal cockles, cucumber, pan fried sambal chicken, prawn and papadam making it a familiar taste for many to relish.

to end the day; we had 2 lip smacking and eye pleasing dessert which is the Mango Blast which has Mango Sorbet, Vanilla Ice Cream, Yoghurt Ice Cream, Fresh Indian Mango and Blue berries. The Indian Mango was superb and very sweet.

while the Strawberry Fountain has Strawberry Sorbet,Vanilla Ice Cream, Yoghurt Ice Cream, Fresh Japanese Strawberries and Blue berries concoction was indeed a very special sweet sourish end to our review.

At Slurp Cafe, you can have the company of Doraemon and many other characters during your meals at Slurp Cafe.

Overall, the food serves at Slurp Cafe are indeed very slurpy and tasty. With an innovative chef, more dishes will be coming forth. If you just love to hang with your buddies while enjoying a nice meal accompanied with your super heroes, Slurp Cafe @ 3 Two Square will definitely be a good choice for you.

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Yoshinoya Hanamaru Malaysia - Mid Valley Grand Opening - A Japanese Food Court Concept Review By Best Restaurant

Best Restaurant To Eat was invited to a special pre launch opening of Yoshinoya Hanamaru Malaysia; a Japanese Food Court concept at Mid Valley located on Lot-T-15B, Level 3, Mid Valley Megamall, Kuala Lumpur.

The Yoshinoya Hanamaru offers an all Japanese Food Court dining experience where one can enjoys all the Japanese Food like Udon, Tempura, Don, Nabe; all at an affordable price in a comfortable and fuss free dining environment.

Yoshinoya is one of the oldest and largest restaurant chains of beef bowl with over 1800 outlets around the world. Its root can be traced back from 1899 from a small shop selling Gyudon in Nihonbashi Fish Market. Prepared with a secret recipe broth seasoned with savoury herbs and spices together with large sweet onions, served on a bed of fluffy Japanese rice.

While the Hanamaru brand serves the Sanuki Udon with a wide variety of side dishes which are listed as below.

The Udon are made fresh daily at the restaurant; and all Udon at Hanamaru are kept no longer than 30 minutes to ensure the customers are served the tastiest Udon. The use of the first grade quality flour ensures that all UDON served has the consistent firm and bouncy texture.

The dried kelp and sardines (from Japan) broth was very flavourful and prepared to offer a special signature Hanamaru taste. Yours truly top pick was the Beef Udon as above.

and Ontama Bukake Udon with a special Mori-no-tamago.

followed by the Spicy Miso Udon.

while the Cold Salad Udon; which has a tinge of sesame dressing was especially refreshing as it was serve as a cold udon and garnished with a generous amount of leafy green.

Among the tempura dishes that are served at Hanamaru is Ebi tempura, Kakiage Egg, Vegetable (sweet potato, pumpkin) tempura and etc which was all dipped in a delicious tempura batter and deep fried to a golden crisp.

Other notable side dishes served at Hanamaru are the Kaarage, 

Inari Sushi and Ongiri 

Aji Dango Stick, Yasai Age, Boiled Egg and etc.

The Azuki Cafe serves up special Soda based drinks and smoothies to complement your food.

If you are in Mid Valley Megamall looking for some inexpensive Japanese food, you can head over to the Yoshinoya Hanamaru to savours these special Japanese offering.