YAYOIKEN Japanese Restaurant

One of my favorite supermarket place in town is Meiyi-da @ Liang Court Shopping Centre where you can easily get imported Japanese groceries and at times, they hold Japan Food Fairs too.   I also like to patronize the Japanese restaurants and deli there ~ such as Tampopo where they serve delicious tonkatsu and kurobuta ramen.  Oh their desserts such as Mont Blanc, Scoop Cake, Cream Puff are so yummy.  Well, I just have a piece of their scoop cake for afternoon tea today.

The other day, I was at Liang Court and suggested to my friends to try out the Japanese food at Yayoiken before heading to our Karaoke singing.  Here were our food orders

I have always like Calpis soda and candies ever since I tasted them in Japan. 

That day, I ordered the Calpis uncarbonated soft drink ~

a light, sweet and tangy yogurt flavor drink.

Ebi Gyoza ~ the ones which we usually ordered are with pork fillings.

You can eat the pickles as much as you want.  It is placed in a container at our dining table.
We had ordered the tuna & corn salad.  I simply love the Japanese salad dressing. So tasty.

Mix Toji ~ Beef, Pork Culet & Fried Prawn topped with eggs.

Mixed Grill Set ~ lotsa meat....these were my friends' order.

Mixed Grilled Set

This was my order ~ Saba Miso Set

Overall, the restaurant service is good and their food prices are affordable.

IRODORI JAPANESE RESTAURANT

I have been eating Japanese food for 3 times this week and I am still not sick of it It was a pre-X'mas dinner with my colleagues at Irodori and we had a-la-carte dinner buffet.  There were over 100 dishes in their menu and eat-all-you-can I find that the food quality is comparatively as good as Shin Minori and the price is affordable too.  I realized in both restuarants that the desserts were not included in their menu. It's quite disappointed and hopefully that they could include desserts like matcha/goma ice-cream, puddings or even strawberry shortcakes in their menu  

Sashimi Moriawase is always the 1st dish that I will order.  Fresh and sweet assortment of mix raw fish and octopus.  We had ordered twice.

 This is their signature special maki roll ~ Irodori Maki. The maki fillings were lobster salad, roe and mayo.  Thumbs up for this maki and we ordered twice for the maki.

Shishamo ~ hmm..ok.

Noodles craze ~ Yaki Udon & Soba, and Su Udon.  Of all, I went for Yaki Soba which was more tasty and the noodles were well cooked and fragrant.

 Tofu Salad ~ Simply love the salad dressing. Overall, this dish was very refreshing.

 Chawamushi ~ looks like beancurd or pudding ^.^

 Grilled salmon with teriyaki sauce and its sprinkled with sesames to enhance the fragrance.

 Pork Shogayaki ~ with ginger sauce.

 Mixed Tempura - Prawns and vegetables

 Temaki ~ Soft shell crab and california handrolls

 Grilled mid-joint chicken wings ~ oishii!

Left 1 piece of tonkatsu for photoshoot...

 Agedashi tofu for 1 serving

Age Gyoza ~ fried dumpling dipped with mayo

 Saba Shioyaki

Don't get cheated by the look of this dish ~ Green Tea Rice.  It tasted neither blend nor bitter.  It's actually quite tasty except a little salty. Somehow I think the soup was made from chicken or pork broth mixed with green tea.  Luckily, I just ordered a bowl to try as the rest were not particularly enjoyed this rice.

The filling inside the croquette was pumpkin

Here's a plate of complimentary grilled prawns to us.  Yummylicious ~ too bad, no extra servings..hehe!

A definitely great place for group dinings where you can order and taste more dishes.

Shin Minori Japanese Restaurant @ UE Square

Met up with my pals for ala-carte Japanese buffet dinner @ Shin Minori.  Few weeks back, I went to Senki  Japanese Restaurant @ Killiney Road for their buffet and I personally find that Shin Minori served better quality of Japanese food at an affordable price.The service crew were friendly and responsive. As always, I was very hungry because I skipped my breakfast and only had light snacks so that I could eat more at dinner.  Luckily, the crew served our food fast without waiting too long. In about 10-15 minutes, our table easily filled up with all the dishes that we ordered.

 



 Complimentary dish ~ Lightly grilled fish head with sweet sauce. It's flavorful.

 

We order California, Spider and Ebi Tempura Temaki ~ the way they wrapped the temaki was firm and filling was generous. Oishii desu ne



 Here were our skewers of grilled shitake mushrooms with katsuobushi (bonito flakes), a plate of yasai itame (fried mixed veg), saba teriyaki (grilled mackarel with teriyaki sauce), Breaded prawns, fried chicken wings and i think I ordered the spider maki set as the grilled eel sushi set were out from the menu that day :(



Sashimi Moriwase ~ very fresh raw snapper, yellowtail, salmon, tuna and octopus.  This was actually our 2nd order :)





O0ops! Almost finishing the whole bowl of garlic rice and then remembered to snap a shot. The rice was very fragrant.





This was my 2nd order of the grilled mackarel (saba). Earlier on, I had the saba with teriyaki sauce and now this was saba shioyaki (grilled with salt).  The slice of saba was nicely grilled and the fishmeat was not dry and tough.



The shishamo (pregnant capelin) was a little disappointing as it was too charred and there wasn't much of roe. 



Gyuniku Shogayaki ~ Beef with special sauce.



Pizza

Thumbs up for this kani tempura ~ crispy and definitely goes well with beer ^.~

Salmon with special sauce.



There was no dessert in the buffet menu so we ordered separately. Yuzu sorbet, Matcha ice cream with azuki beans & Wildberries gelato.



Christmas deco is up at everywhere....Ho Ho Ho!

There were supposed to have more mouth-watering food photos posted here but I was busy placing orders, eating and chatting with my pals ~ hehe!

Have a good week ahead ~ Cheerios

R & R day ^-^

Took a day off with K and we went to watch the Disney movie ~ "Rapunzel : A Tangled Tale". It was an awesome movie and the characters were interesting and hilarious too. I love the animation, visual effects and the characters were very well drawn and lively ~ Rapunzel's long golden hair was stunning and her big poppy eyes were lovely. Flynn Ryder was charming and funny too. Another 2 funny characters that kept me laughing were Rapunzel's little pet chameleon ~ Pascal and a Palace's guard horse ~ Maximus. The songs in the movie were great and I have posted a soundtrack here ~ Enjoy listening

After the movie ended, we went for our lunch at Sapporo Ramen Bishamon which is located at Great World City. As it was a week day, there were not many customers and their service was fast.

Typical bar counter ~ very Nihon look

We like this Tofu Salad very much ~ very refreshing and the dressing was so tasty.
We ordered additional toppings for our salad. Yum Yum

See the Tamago ~ this is what i like it cooked and goes with my ramen!

Okonoiyaki Gyoza ~ taste good too.

Close-up ~ it makes me salivating!

A little disappointing as the seaweed turned soft on my temaki.

A satisfying lunch & keeps me happy for the rest of the day!

It is 14 days to Christmas & I have yet to finish my shopping