Confessions of a City Slicker

I’ve been looking forward to this ever since Froggy brought it up. Even though a few of the group PPK-ed on us (shame on you! :p) we decided to go ahead and have dinner there anyway.

It’s the tapenyaki restaurant in Sungai Nibong area, next to the flyover from the Bayan Bay apartments.

First thing customers will notice when they open the door is the sound of birds twittering. Sure made me look around for the source of the sound before I realized that it’s the motion sensor.

Meals come in set forms (both lunch and dinner) but there are some ala carte as well in the form of temakis, sushi and sashimis.

This is the California Temaki I ordered, on the house because they forgot to charge me for it :p

At RM3.20 a piece, it’s reasonable but it lacks those delicious egg strips that comes with the temaki in Akebono. I really miss Akebono. Too bad the place closed down long ago.

A full set meal comes with salad (in the fish shaped plate), appetizer (the wantan in the fish shaped plate), miso soup (far right), garlic rice and the main dish that you order.

I ordered the sliced beef (RM13.90). The bowl next to the miso soup is the souce for dipping the beef slices. A little too garlicy for my liking.

My dinner companions both had the teriyaki chicken and fish combo.

Picking up a piece of wantan, I noticed something I found to be a real turnoff - oil collecting at the bottom of the plate. I had to use the napkin they provided to soak up the oil. Yuck!

Also, don’t Japanese restaurants serve those conventional sticky rice flavored with vinegar anymore? I really prefer that one compared to the more canggih versions so popular nowadays.

Their miso soup was really full of flavor, the result of the tiny pieces of seaweed I found at the bottom of the bowl. I just couldn’t get enough of it.

The actual cooking is done in the kitchen area, as opposed to the typical tapenyaki restaurants where customers sit around the cook-pit.

I finally learned to operate the camera on my phone to take better quality pictures hehehehe…..

Didn’t know so many things must be set right first before I start clicking away. Since the button to snap a photo is so tight and always results in shaky pictures, I started to rely on the timer mechanism.

Price wise, this place is quite reasonable and suit our budgets. Like my friend says, “Pan gee korr tua teh” (cheap and big).