Last night we went to Ginza Japanese Restaurant in Tanjung Tokong.
We wouldn't have gone there but for a Groupon offer of RM30 for a voucher of RM50. Add to that a promotion code for an extra RM10 off, and I decided to get that voucher for RM20!
The place was very nicely decorated (read: classy place that I would be afraid to step into). We were given a round table with a semi-circular seat (almost a semi-circle) that could seat three to four people, with an extra chair just off one side of the rounded seat. There were four of these "alcove" type tables. I didn't think if taking a photo of the tables, though... I didn't even think I was going to describe the table until I started writing this post.
Here's what we ordered:
Chicken teriyaki don needs no introduction, since it is one of the most common Japanese dishes, chicken teriyaki with rice. (What you see on the left side in the bowl is lettuce.)
The salmon mentai don is the best of the three dishes (and appropriately so, seeing the price!). It is salmon slices with mentai (fish roe) sauce on rice. The salmon slices are very thin, and even though from the top we see that they are cooked (the colour of cooked salmon), the other side is still raw (from the colour; or would that be considered smoked since it has met with a bit of heat?). Anyway, it tasted good; WW praised it to no end, saying that it was so soft there was no need to chew it (melt-in-the-mouth, I guess?)
On top of the salmon there were two pieces of egg. I guess that would be slices of the famous Japanese omelette? I felt it was just like normal egg though. And there's a mound of wasabi with a mound of ginger in the corner of the bowl.
Both rice dishes came with a bowl of miso soup. The miso soup contained lots of pieces of seaweed (I like it!). As for the small dish of pickled cucumber/etc that you can see beside the bowl, it was already there when we arrived at our table. One for each place setting.
As for the fried chicken, there were five pieces of it. Er... I don't think there's anything else for me to say about it. Maybe I could just say that it seems to be chicken thighs, and not the breast. (yay!)
Basically all the dishes were good, it's just that fried chicken and teriyaki chicken are very commonly found, so there is less of a "wow!" factor there. But the taste was still above average. WW complained that the portion was small (the portion of rice, I mean), but of course it is enough for me...
So in conclusion, above-average taste with above-average price. There were a lot of other kinds of dishes on the menu, more expensive than what we chose. Our bill came up to RM70 with service charge and government tax, so without the voucher, it would have been expensive!
We wouldn't have gone there but for a Groupon offer of RM30 for a voucher of RM50. Add to that a promotion code for an extra RM10 off, and I decided to get that voucher for RM20!
The place was very nicely decorated (read: classy place that I would be afraid to step into). We were given a round table with a semi-circular seat (almost a semi-circle) that could seat three to four people, with an extra chair just off one side of the rounded seat. There were four of these "alcove" type tables. I didn't think if taking a photo of the tables, though... I didn't even think I was going to describe the table until I started writing this post.
Here's what we ordered:
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| chicken teriyaki don, RM17.80 |
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| salmon mentai don, RM23.80 |
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| tori karaage (Japanese fried chicken), 14.80 |
Chicken teriyaki don needs no introduction, since it is one of the most common Japanese dishes, chicken teriyaki with rice. (What you see on the left side in the bowl is lettuce.)
The salmon mentai don is the best of the three dishes (and appropriately so, seeing the price!). It is salmon slices with mentai (fish roe) sauce on rice. The salmon slices are very thin, and even though from the top we see that they are cooked (the colour of cooked salmon), the other side is still raw (from the colour; or would that be considered smoked since it has met with a bit of heat?). Anyway, it tasted good; WW praised it to no end, saying that it was so soft there was no need to chew it (melt-in-the-mouth, I guess?)
On top of the salmon there were two pieces of egg. I guess that would be slices of the famous Japanese omelette? I felt it was just like normal egg though. And there's a mound of wasabi with a mound of ginger in the corner of the bowl.
Both rice dishes came with a bowl of miso soup. The miso soup contained lots of pieces of seaweed (I like it!). As for the small dish of pickled cucumber/etc that you can see beside the bowl, it was already there when we arrived at our table. One for each place setting.
As for the fried chicken, there were five pieces of it. Er... I don't think there's anything else for me to say about it. Maybe I could just say that it seems to be chicken thighs, and not the breast. (yay!)
Basically all the dishes were good, it's just that fried chicken and teriyaki chicken are very commonly found, so there is less of a "wow!" factor there. But the taste was still above average. WW complained that the portion was small (the portion of rice, I mean), but of course it is enough for me...
So in conclusion, above-average taste with above-average price. There were a lot of other kinds of dishes on the menu, more expensive than what we chose. Our bill came up to RM70 with service charge and government tax, so without the voucher, it would have been expensive!
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