A wagyu feast

Snorlax treated me to Edo Ichi for my birthday. They had special dishes including a wagyu course meal, which we shared, together with an Edo Ichi pizza. The total bill came up to RM250 (with my company badge’s 15% discount applied to a-la-carte items and not the wagyu set) before service charge and tax, so we were entitled to a birthday dish and ice-cream of the day. The birthday promotion is valid for the whole birthday month, and the waitress actually told us “you can come again this month”. Already trying to get more business before we had even started eating!

Here is the advertised wagyu set:

RM210 before taxes; no discount allowed since it is a promo set

The wasabi came as a pretty leaf.

Then the salmon sashimi arrived. 

Look at those thick glistening slices! I am not a sashimi connoisseur, but I can taste that these are better than cheaper sashimi elsewhere. Even Snorlax said that it was good, and he isn’t a fan of sashimi.

garlic fried rice

truffle chawanmushi

We can see only truffle on the top, but at the bottom there are all the usual ingredients in a high-end chawanmushi: prawn, chicken, naruto, mushroom, gingko nut (not sure whether I missed anything).

miso soup with clams and nameko mushroom

There are several clams and mushrooms inside (the brown thing is the nameko mushroom), together with tofu and seaweed like usual miso soup. I didn’t even realize until I came home and looked back at the description of the wagyu set, that the mushrooms were not regular shiitake mushrooms; I thought they were just small shiitake. They definitely didn’t have the taste of shiitake, but when eating, I just thought that the shiitake taste was masked by the other flavours.

unagi crispy roll, my birthday treat from Edo Ichi

We could choose between a few items; besides this, one was a real main dish of chicken katsu curry rice, and the other two were salmon sashimi and grilled smoked duck. If we didn’t have salmon sashimi in our wagyu set, I would have selected that; but since we already had sashimi, this unagi roll was a good option! I would have preferred it without the sauce; as it was, I scraped off some of the sauce and had it with some wasabi.

Edo Ichi pizza, RM45 before discount or taxes

It is half salmon and half unagi; you can make out the two halves in the photo. The salmon side had more fish, since salmon is cheaper than unagi. But I still prefer the unagi side, because of the unagi sauce!

the star of the day, wagyu on houba leaf

This is my favourite dish of the day (though the sashimi can rival it). I don’t really know how to use the accompaniments; on the right is salt, on the left is spring onion in something that was not soy sauce, and in the middle was a sourish paste that I didn’t like. I dipped the beef into the two on the side, but even without dipping, the beef was good enough. We asked for medium-well, and the doneness was just right.

prawn tempura, nice and crispy

oyster and mushroom baked with mentai sauce and cheese, with salmon fin karaage

The oyster is as big as you can guess from the photo. No excessive cheese bloating it up. The salmon fin had a lovely crispy exterior.

For dessert, two scoops of free ice-cream. One was vanilla, the scoop of the day from the birthday promo. The other was free with my company badge, so we could choose the flavour, and we selected black sesame. 

The first dish arrived a few minutes after we ordered, and the other dishes were brought up gradually within the next half hour. After that we still spent almost another hour eating slowly, before asking for our ice-cream. In the end, we spent more than two hours there enjoying our luxurious meal.

It was quite filling for just the two of us. Luckily we had this for lunch, and I didn't even need a dinner that night; just had a small snack.