Saturday, November 6, 2010

Kita No Zen @ The Gardens, Midvalley

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It is a new japanese restaurant located at top floor in The Gardens, same floor with Sushi Zanmai. It is at right in front of the escalator, in between Sony, Nokia, Sony Ericsson shops.

It was still under renovation when my last visit to The Gardens few months ago and i went in front to read the notice pasted on the board, i found out that, it is from the same company of Sushi Zanmai, which means, both of this japanese restaurant + Rakuzen is owned by the same company.

Kita No Zen has more spacious seats to fit customers than sushi zanmai. If you are a regular customers of Sushi Zanmai, you should know that queuing up at sushi zanmai is a norm, especially during peak hour as the tables and seats in sushi zanmai is quite little. However, compare to zanmai, Kita No Zen charges higher price of foods.

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They even craft a leaf shape on the wasabi before they serve to customers

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The Big Menu that contains over hundreds of food for us to choose. Took about 20mins to decide whether which to order

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the spacious place

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the foods even taste better in a nice environment.

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a see through glass kitchen

FOODS:
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Unajyu Zen ( Unagi Set) @ RM36 - it comes with a bowl of miso soup, chawanmushi, fruits, jelly fish, and the unagi rice. it taste nice especially the U-N-A-G-I  and the size is big!

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Hama Sashimi Mori @ RM45 - it contains of 5 types of sashimi

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see how thick is salmon?

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But, i still prefer Umaiya's Sashimi *drool* refer my older post on Umaiya Here

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Hotate Don ( Scallop ) @ RM18 - it comes together with a bowl of miso soup. Let me count, i think there are almost 6-8 scallops

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Inari Sushi @ RM2 each.. when i was looking at the menu, i thought it comes in pair. But when it serve... ...

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Spider Roll @ RM22 - it's actually a soft shell crab roll and i think the soft shell crab was too oily and the vege is too much

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For Dessert, we randomly ordered this, Mango Crepe @ RM9.80 - Mango Sherbet + Fresh Mango + Crepe = BEST!! the mango sherbet is absolutely worth for the price.


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Can taste the ice-cream at this session, Hokkaido Ichiba, Every Ice-cream dessert found in Kita No Zen can be ordered here too at the same price. They also sells single or double scope of ice-cream too. Single scope @ RM4.80 and double scope @ RM6.80

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A Shojikiya (snacks shops) is just beside hokkaido ichiba. For japanese food lovers, u can dine ur meal, have your dessert, purchase japanese snacks at one shot :D

Location
Lot T-201, Third Floor, The Garden Mall
Midvalley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra,
59200 Kuala Lumpur
Tel:03-22831060

Business Hour: 10am-10pm

Friday, November 5, 2010

rendezvous steak garden (相见欢) @ Kampung Pandan

I was brought by my KL friends to this place 2-3 years back for dinner and the environment here is nice and it is a good place for couple or for bday celebration. Thy did provide sufficient parking space for customers to park although the entrance and exit to this restaurant is dangerous, because it is just at the road side.

The foods are nice and services are good. For the price, i wouldn't say cheap but affordable as compare to others steak house in KL area. Chicken chop around RM10-12 and large fruit juice for RM7.

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thy got their own chili & tomato sauce..nice huh?

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Carrot Milk (Large) @ RM6.80

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Grill Cheese Chicken Chop @ RM12.80 - the gravy is nice and the portion is big enaugh to say FULL.

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Chicken AU Chambertin ( Red Wine Chicken Chop ) @ RM9.80 - a red wine chicken without red wine taste counted as red wine chicken?

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Cheese Potato @ RM6.80 - It is acutally mashed potato + a slice of cheese on top. Nothing special


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Location:

Rendezvous Steak Garden
Address: 14, Jln. Kampung Pandan, 55100 K.Lumpur.
(On the left just off bulatan kampung pandan - heading towards Kampung Pandan)