Un-Japanese food at a Japanese restaurant

Sep 6th, 2005

We dine at Jurin Japanese restaurant at Belisa Row, Pulau Tikus a few nights ago. Here are some un-Japanese foods we ordered. The first one is the baked oysters. 5 huge oysters smothered with cheese. Yummy! At RM30++. But I have tasted better oyster thermidor though.

This is the ‘mistake’ we ordered. A Japanese pizza which doesn’t seem to have any dough but cheese mixed with some sweetish, teppanayaki sauce and lots of that paper-thin cuttle-fish. My kid who ordered it refused to eat it and I can only manage to swallow one mouthful. Ewws…sorry, I just cannot stomach it. We pack it home and one hungry son who did not join us walloped this RM15 pizza-wannabe.

This is my nice dinner. A bento with rice, chawan mushi, misho soup, sashimi, tempura prawns, some teppanyaki items and other stuffs. (too many things I can’t remember what is what). RM36. Quite worth it because the taste are all pleasantly nice for my local tastebuds.

The bowl of green tea icecream and red beans which I had to fight with my kids over it. Because it is THAT GOOD. The green tea is not sweet at all but a bit bitter with strong taste of green tea. The red beans sweetness balance it, making it the best one I had tasted so far. (ok, I don’t always eat at Japanese restaurant)

If I am not too lazy to re-size more photos, I will post about the deco of this place. It is a Japanese restaurant worth checking out. Classy unlike the mass production sushi bars. There is another branch in Penang at Krystal Place in Bayan Baru.

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7 Comments on “Un-Japanese food at a Japanese restaurant”

#1 boo_licious
on Sep 6th, 2005 at 5:57 pm

the try to be pizza is okonomiyaki. Think acrix69 also posted about it just now. Bento looks good, yum!
#2 doc
on Sep 6th, 2005 at 6:43 pm

Except the cheese oysters, others look quite yapunis to me, wut? The flakes on the okonomiyaki usually some flaked dried fish like salmon?
#3 Administrator
on Sep 6th, 2005 at 10:47 pm

doc - the okonomiyaki was described as pizza and served looking like pizza. So, our brains registered pizza but what we get is an omelette made with too much cheese and sweetish sauce. ewwss…

boo - Tks for pointing it out. I read on Acrix69, cheese are optional and that one looks yummy. Unlike mine. Ewws
#4 babe_kl
on Sep 7th, 2005 at 12:36 pm

next time when u r down in KL try the macha ice-cream at ozeki (opposite KLCC/rumjungle) or at NZ ice-cream (KLCC/ikano)
#5 domesticgoddess
on Sep 7th, 2005 at 5:49 pm

the paper-thin flakes are not cuttle fish… it’s dried shaved bonito flakes. it’s an important ingredient in the yapunis cooking…
#6 boo_licious
on Sep 7th, 2005 at 7:25 pm

I love those bonito flakes especially when they seem alive as they move a bit with the wind.
#7 pixen
on Oct 6th, 2006 at 2:41 am

I found this interesting videos…

Hiroshima Style OKONOMI-YAKI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VNDOLrl6OKM

Kansai Style OKONOMI-YAKI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_fjchXhgBxk

Tokyo Style MONJHA-YAKI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Urqfiy6RiOE

The way the chefs cooked it’s sooooooo mmmmmm…