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.

Porto Bello Damansara Uptown New Menu and Big Breakfast Review

Best Restaurant To Eat was invited for a new menu offering from Porto Bello Restaurant located at 

No. 8, Jalan SS 21/58, Damansara Utama Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Read our first full review by clicking here.

To start off, we had the Tuna Tartar as our appetizer. It is a fantastic Italian Japanese fusion that marries the fresh raw tuna (french style), avocado and tsukini pieces mix with tosa soy and served wasabi, aioli,masago (flying fish roe) ginger pickle, and togarashi crips add a dimension to tingle your tastebud. You get an explosion of flavours in your mouth.

The new menu offering are the Big Breakfast Set, the first of which is the Big Breakfast Set. You can choose either the beef or Vienna chicken sausage which has a very firm texture which gives a meaty feel. You can also choose either the turkey ham or streaky beef, followed by a hash brown, a one half roasted tomatoes, sauteed wild mushrooms (brown shimeji, white shimeji, shitake mushroom, oyster and king oyster mushroom) with garlic and butter, 2 pieces of toasted wholemeal bread, baked beans with a coating of melted cheese topping and fresh green salad.

Followed by the Porto Bello Sunrise which has the Porto Bello Mushroom as the base, served with chicken ham with Bechamel Sauce (wonderfully done with a strong creamy taste), with a choice of either turkey ham or streaky beef, a sunny side up which the yolk blended with the sauce and mushroom was just the right and perfect combination. Comes with fresh garden salad and baked beans with melted mozzarella cheese topping.

and the Volcano Surprise which came with Chicken Bolognese on top of the Porto Bello Mushroom, a choice of turkey ham or streaky beef. With the addition of a sunny side up and hash brown and fresh garden salad to finish it up.

Just look at the thick Porto Bello mushroom sitting at the base; makes you salivating for this super breakfast meal.

For the main, the introduction of Lamb dishes is a welcome change, as yours truly loves lamb especially the Lamb Shanks. It was cooked with a very strong herbs and lamb essence flavour.

Followed by the Lamb rack which was superbly grilled to perfection while retaining its juicy succulent and tender meat served on a bed of mashed potatoes and sauteed mushroom. It comes with a light minty cream yoghurt sauce which blend well with the grill meat.

We also did tried one of the beef dishes which was the Braised Beef Bourgouignone - a French braised hearty stew cooked with radish, carrot and potatoes. The sauce was a perfect match with the soft toasted wholemeal bread.

Fried Buffalo Wings - a super crispy fried drummet with a strong tinge of spiciness from the

One of the new drinks offering was the Cucumber Mojito which was super refreshing and as I was having a minor sore throat, this drink which was infused with freshly mint leaves, was just the perfect concoction to sooth my dry throat.

If mushroom is your cup of tea, Porto Bello Restaurant at Damansara Uptown will be a good choice for you; more so with the new menu offering

Tim Ho Wan @ Mid Valley Mega Mall - New Menu and Four Heavenly King Dim Sum Review

 

Mention of Tim Ho Wan @ Mid Valley - A Michelin Star and Hong Kong Most Famous Dim Sum, you can picture the long queue of people and waiting for a seat at this new restaurant that was opened December 2014 at Mid Valley. 

Best Restaurant To Eat was invited to a food review for 3 new dishes that will be available from 8th March 2015 and also to taste the Four Heavenly King Dim Sum and some other specialty dim sum at Tim Ho Wan located at 27-G, Ground Floor, The Boulevard, Mid Valley City Mega Mall. 

First to be debuted and exclusively available in Mid Valley restaurant is the Signature 5 Treasures. This irresistible savoury combines silky bean curd, deep fried tofu, capsicum and eggplant generously stuffed with shrimps and chicken paste accompanied by its Chef’s Signature, black bean sauce. This healthy and colourful serving is very much enjoyed by many dim sum lovers.

Tim Ho Wan brings to the table Steamed Chicken with Fish Maw. This dish invites you to indulge on the succulent and juicy, steamed-to-perfection chicken with fresh mushroom and fish maw in its silky abalone sauce. Just picturing the dish alone is enough to make one salivate! Yums!

Besides that, make your way gourmet-heaven with Tim Ho Wan’s Crystal Shrimp Roll with Century Egg. This is packaging with shrimp paste, asparagus, fish roe and century egg that are enveloped in crystal-clear rice dumpling skin. For a finishing touch, the dumplings are then drenched in abalone sauce! With its Michelin Star status to keep up with, Tim Ho Wan guarantees you a gastronomic dining experience at a conveniently affordable price. 

At Tim Ho Wan, its ‘Four Heavenly Kings’, namely Baked Bun with BBQ Pork; The pork buns are crumbly and fluffy on the outside cooked-to-perfection barbecued pork oozing with deliciously sweet-salty sauce inside. 

The Vermicelli Roll Stuffed with Pork Liver is an interesting change from the traditional “chee cheong fun” dish. This vermicelli roll has a very velvety texture while the fresh pork liver lends a gamey flavour which blended well with the chee cheong fun and the soya sauce.

Next is the Pan Fried Carrot Cake which is spiked with scrumptious radish bits. 

and ending the Four Heavenly Kings is the Steamed Egg Cake. The egg cake is light and spongy, with a hint of flavourful caramelised taste. A must order dish.

From the list of item from the standard menu a, total of 25 dishes are being offered, we were served the Braised Chicken Feet with Abalone Sauce. The Chicken feet were braised to a soft texture that makes eating it a breeze.

One of my favourite Dim Sum dish is the Steamed Pork Rib with Black Bean Sauce. The bean paste sauce was just right without overwhelmingly salty.

Next was the Glutinous Rice with Lotus Leaf

and lastly for the Dim Sum is the crispy Beancurd Skin Roll with Shrimp.

To end the food review we had the Tonic Medlar & Osmanthus Cake as our dessert.

So, if you do not like to wait for the queue, you can make a reservation at the Tim Ho Wan special dining area or private room located at the mezzanine floor that can seat up to 48 people. Extra charges are applicable on these room. Please check it out by calling them to make this reservation.