Valentine's Dinner at Aoyama, Sri Hartamas

Hunny gave me 2 choices for V-Day celebrations...RM165 spent on a dozen roses bouquet and no nice meals vs. Nice food and no rose bouquet, I chose the latter. Luckily I did or I'd wouldn't have discovered such lovely yummy stuff to eat.

For dinner, Hunny brought me to his favorite Japanese restaurant in Sri Hartamas called The Green Room or Aoyama Japanese Restaurant. We didn't make reservations and hence were seated at the sushi bar. The sifus were working non stop rolling rice, slicing, shaping rice, seafood and various condiments to fulfil menu orders.

Fresh Octopus tentacles



Fresh Salmon...yummy!!!



Fresh Tuna




Other fresh seafoods




Hunny told me to keep quiet and let him do the ordering. Then he went ahead to order stuff that were priced based on seasonal prices and my eyes grew wider and wider as he ordered. Unfortunately, two things bugged me about this restaurant, they didn't serve my favourite Ikura (Salmon fish eggs) and they ran out of my favorite Uni (Sea Urchin).

Yummy Maguro (Tuna) with Foie Gras. This was unbelievable!!! So yummy...that I let out a gasp of delight as I bit into it. The outside of the tuna was seared but in the middle, it was still raw and hence very juicy! I first thought it was a beef cube as it tasted like beef! I had 3 pieces and Hunny had 1 piece. Priced at RM28.00





Hunny ordered a Special Soup for me. It came in this blue cup and it was a clear soup stock with the sweetness of dried mussel, fatty salmon, mushrooms, onions, tofu and leek. Really soothing and comforting. Priced at RM16.00





Next up, was the yummy soft shelled crab with tamago sushi. This again is a big winner! Pure soft shell crab without the annoying flour batter that I have eaten in other restaurants. As it was rather huge, Hunny taught me to bite off the ends first to enjoy the fresh sweetness of the soft shell crab and then pop the whole sushi in my mouth and let the different flavors and textures explode in my mouth. It was orgasmic as the crispiness of the soft shell crab and roasted seaweed mixed with the sweet tamago, the tangyness of the mayonnaise and stickiness of the sushi rice came together as I chewed away. I had 2 pieces and Hunny had 2 pieces. Priced at RM16.00





Salmon Skin Maki took some time to arrive. It was again a first time for me eating this sushi. It was very crunchy and the salmon skin had no oily aftertaste. However, I didn't enjoy this maki as much as I enjoyed the 1st two sushis. This was because of my personal preference as I found the skin too crunchy and I'd prefer it with more sesame seeds. I had 2 pieces and Hunny had 4 pieces. Priced at RM16.00



Of course Hunny wouldn't had have enough to eat if he just ate sushi. He ate a Saba Shio Bento Set as well. Priced at RM20.00



This whole meal came up to RM107.80 with 2 Green teas. My mouth misses the Maguro Foie Gras Sushi (actually it's called Maguro Hanabi Sushi) so much...nyams...beef tasting Tuna....


Aoyama Japanese Restaurant,
No.10, Ground Floor,
Jln 27/70A, Desa Sri Hartamas,
50480 Kuala Lumpur

Tel : 03-23000683

Highly recommended that you call and reserve a table on weekends and special occasions.

My Birthday Dinner at Nagomi, Jaya 33

Last nite, my hunny treated me to my 1st taste of Kobe Beef Shabu-Shabu at Nagomi, Jaya 33, Petaling Jaya. It was really suitable to have shabu-shabu last night as it was raining and cold. Shabu-Shabu is the Japanese version of Hot Pot or Steamboat. We had the set which came with 138 grams of kobe beef, mixed vegetables, special sauces and Nagomi Broth (Dashi Broth).

My Camera's battery died halfway as I didn't charge it after my Sg. Lembing Trip (will blog abt it later).

1. Nagomi's Menu

2. Daily Specials - 11.30am till 4.30am

3. Shabu-Shabu Set

4. Actual Set

5. How to cook...

6. Wow...the Kobe Beef so thinly sliced, so tender and yummy looking!!!

Fu-Yoh!!! Each thinly sliced beef to be rolled up first before dipping into the dashi broth... Delicious when swished for 15 seconds...letting it be cooked medium rare.

Thanks Hunny for bringing your Bunny to taste such luxury foods!!! This has been my yummiest birthday so far in my life!

Beef Sukiyaki at Kiku Zakura, Berjaya Times Square

Tonight, I had beef sukiyaki and iced green tea at Kiku Zakura, Berjaya Times Square.


For appetizer, they served unagi (eel) wrapped in beancurd skin.



The set comes with beef sukiyaki, salad, rice, pickles, miso soup and watermelon.



The beef sukiyaki was a generous portion in a salty sweet light based soup. There were about 10 to 15 slices of thinly sliced beef, spring onions, tofu, green vegetable (I don't know the name but in cantonese, we call it tong-po choy), mushroom, onion, carrot, konnyaku (a type of jelly) noodles and a raw egg that was added in that hot stone bowl of sukiyaki broth.



See...here are some of the stuff that was in the sukiyaki which I scooped out...









Everything was yummy as usual. The total damage done was RM31.05. Not bad for a healthy balanced meal.

Kiku Zakura - Part 1

Last night I had dinner at a branch of my favorite restaurant in Berjaya Times Square. The restaurant offers many value for money set. As I didn't feel like eating sushi or sashimi or tempura last night, I ordered one of the cheapest sets which was the Nabeyaki Udon with Gyoza Set.

Forgive me for the pictures being blur as I took these pictures with my Nokia 3500 Camera.


Hot Green Tea served in a Geisha inspired cup (RM3++) refillable.


Hot Green Tea with Appetizer



The Appetizer


The meddley of sauces to go with the food



Nabeyaki Udon with Gyoza Set (RM27++). The Set but I ate the Appetizer already.


This set comes with an appetizer which was chicken pieces fried with onions and bell peppers; a hot cast iron bowl (that can contain heat for longer periods of time) containing Udon (white flour Japanese noodles), loads of vegetables (carrot, leek, green onions, long cabbage, mushroom, and some vege that looks like crysanthemum leaves), some chicken slices ( I think they used thigh), a whole egg and a prawn tempura in a dashi (a type of fish stock that Japanese always use) broth.




A closer look. A complete meal that contains carbos, protein, vitamins, fiber.



I got eat my veggies for vitamins and fiber!



I also ate the chicken for protein



The Gyoza (steamed meat dumplings that are fried on the bottom side providing a light crunch to a soft top skin) with a chilli oil vinegar as a dip


Each Gyoza contains a whole prawn, minced chicken meat, chives, chopped chestnuts and bamboo shoots and tastes just right.



They made sure we had enough fruits and veggies to balance up. The set also comes with a coleslaw salad with thousand island dressing and 2 slices of sweet watermelon.



I cleared everything except for the coleslaw.


Yummy....


Service is really good here. My favourite branch would be the one in Mid Valley on the Cinema Floor. They have another branch in Avenue K, KL.

Total Damage done was RM34.50