Ryoma Japanese Restaurant

Ryoma Japanese restaurant is well known in Penang for it's VIP treatment and serving the finest Japanese food.

We dropped by a week ago, to check out Ryoma. One thing for sure is, everything on the menu is pricely.

For Japanese food enthusiast, the good news is Kobe Beef is also in the menu. It's not something we can have anywhere else. That will be a plus point for Ryoma.

Many types of sakae for display.


Appetizer for guests


Katsu Ni RM25
Egg and Pork cutlet boiled with sweet soy sauce


Yakiniku Don RM30
Sweetened Roasted Beef


Zosui with Salmon RM16
Rice porridge with (salmon/crab/chicken) and egg


Seafood Fried Rice RM22


Unagi Fried Rice RM33
Fried rice with grilled eel


Kakiage Udon RM22
Udon topped with tempura of shredded vegetable and seafood


Cold Somen RM18
Somen cooled on ice


Spicy Ramen RM22
Noodle in spicy soup

Environment: 8/10
Place is air conditioned and has soft type of music which is good for guest to relax.

Food Presentation: 7/10
Food is neatly arrange and well presented.

Portion: 6/10
Food portion in average, enough for one.

Taste: 6/10
Most of the dishes is salty compared to other Japanese restaurants.

Service: 6/10
The overall service was good food is served fast and waitress are attentive. There is even a jokey at the parking place. Except for one waitress, which remarks porridge is for the sick.

Value for money: 6/10
Expensive as we pay for the restaurant environment. Quality of food is normal as compared to other Japanese restaurants.

OVERALL
Visit if you wan to indulge in an authentic Japanese food and have a VIP experience.

Ryoma Japanese Restaurant
5G, Jalan Tanjong Tokong,
10470 Penang
Tel: 604-8918388
http://www.ryoma.com.my/

Tonki Bento Lunch Set Meal

Tonki Bento is well known for it's affordable and big portion of bento set lunch. Delivery also available for busy working adults. Check out their menu here.

The available promotion is as low as RM 6.80 only. Believe it or not?

The seating in Tonki Bento restaurant is Japanese inspired, with it's wooden tables, chairs and partitions.

All the set lunch comes with a free refillable Green Tea (hot/cold). Among the set lunch we had:

Unagi Kabayaki RM 9.80
Grilled eel with sauce served with rice, salad and macaroni.


Salmon Fried RM 7.80
Deep fried salmon served with rice, salad and macaroni.


Tori Katsu Set RM 13.00
Deep fried chicken teriyaki served with salmon, fried vegetable, rice, salad, pickled and fruits.

Environment: 5/10
Tonki Bento has a simple setting. It is clean, compared to the coffee shop.

Food Presentation: 4/10
Rice and dishes are nicely put in a bento box.

Portion: 6/10
A lot of rice but fish and meat slices are thin.

Taste: 5/10
Rice in the bento set is not pure Japanese rice. Taste is moderate.

Service: 6/10
Serve food fast. Drinks are refilled often.

Value for money: 6/10
Price offered is cheap compared to many other Japanese restaurant. You'll get what you paid for.

OVERALL
Good to go if you are on a tight budget yet craving for bento meals. More choices for dinner.

Tonki Bento
No. 2, Lintang Burmah,
Pulau Tikus,
10250 Penang.
Delivery Service: 017-475 7100/016-439 0606

Business Hours:
11.30am-2.30pm/6.00pm-9.30pm
Close on Tuesday

Ichiban Japanese Cuisine Ala Carte Buffet Promotion Review

There is a new attractive ala carta buffet promotion happening in Ichiban Japanese Cuisine, The Gurney Resort Hotel and Residences. Food Promotions decided to check it out.

Located on the 1st Floor in The Gurney Resort Hotel and Residences

The interior of Ichiban Japanese Cuisine:

Open seating


Tatami Room


Sushi Bar

There is a special ala carte menu for this Buffet promotion where you can order the dishes from sashimi, sushi, noodles, seafood, lamb, beef to desserts.

Here comes some of the food we ordered.

Sashimi Moriawase (Served raw)


Smoked Salmon Salad Mustard Emulsion


Maguro Carpaccio (Served raw)


Beef Tataki


Assortment of Sushi (A)


Chawanmushi with Asparagus Mushroom and Leek


Tofu Agedashi


Seafood Gyoza Dumplings


Beef Sukiyaki


Grilled Calamari - BBQ Sauce


Grilled Calamari with Coriander Sabayon


Deep Fried Ika Ika - Spicy Sauce


Prawn & Vegetable Tempura


Braised Oxtail with Japanese Curry Sauce


Grilled Lamb Cutlet and Anticucho Sauce


Prawns Pan-grilled with Garlic Butter


Grilled Salmon "Batayaki"


Baked Scallop with Cheese in Shell


Oyster "Thermidor" in Shell

Ended our meal with these colorful desserts.



Red Bean Ice Cream

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Deep Fried Green Tea Ice Cream


Kabosu Creme Brulee


Mixed Fruits with Lemon Sorbet


Orange Creme Caramel with Candid Ginger

Environment: 5/10
It was slightly warm and tatami room was not available during my visit.

Food Presentation: 4.5/10
A simple final touch to each dish presented.

Portion: 4/10

Generally it is 1 piece per portion. Take note, for each order is limited to 3 portions for a person.

Taste: 5/10
For fast serving food, the taste is as up to my expectation. Fast food standard.

Service: 2/10

As this is the first weekend of the promotion, the system and work flow is not properly in placed. Long interval of waiting between orders. Many of my orders were lost. At the end i did not manage to tried out many dishes.

Value for money: 7.5/10

Normal price RM35++ per person. Until 20 August 2009, 1 free for 4 paying guests of A'la Carte Buffet. If you go in 5, each person pays only RM32.20 (include tax).

OVERALL

The food choices is good for the priced offered. Hope that service will improve and the food can be served faster. To give a good and memorable dining experience to customers.

The Gurney Resort Hotel and Residences
18 Persiaran Gurney, 10250 Georgetown, Penang
Tel: 604-370 7000
Fax: 604-370 5000
Email: gurneyhotel@myjaring.net
Website: http://www.gurney-hotel.com.my/

Link: http://www.foodpromotions.com.my/2009/08/ichiban-japanese-cuisine-ala-gurney.html

Miraku Japanaese Restaurant Unagi Promotion

Miraku is having Unagi Promotion from the month of July until August, and Food Promotions team decided to check it out last weekend.

The menu and the classic table setting of Miraku. If you plan to go, it is advisable to make an appointment for a private room.

Miraku is a restaurant that respect their customers' feedback, for example the chopsticks in Miraku are replaced now. During our last visit, we were still using the wooden chopstick which is claimed not hygenic because it is bleached.

We kick off our dinner with this Appetizer.

As we are loyal fans of Miraku Salad, we ordered it as soon as we saw it in the menu.

Miraku Salad RM 18.00 (small)

This salad tasted good; yet at an affordable price. Miraku Salad's vegetables are crunchy and blended well with the slices of salmon sashimi, crab meat, octopus, lettuce, cucumber, tomato and tomato dressing. The tomato dressing of the salad is made of tomato puree and mayonnaise grind together.

Next up is the 2 orders from the Unagi Promotion menu.

Unagi Kabayaki RM 14.90

This is the grilled eel with sweet sauce. Unagi served are fresh. How do we define it's freshness? It's fat and bouncy. You will know the difference if you compare it to the one sold at the malls.

Unatamadon RM 19.90

Unatama don is short for unagi don (don means bowl) and tamago (egg). This bowl of rice has many slices of unagi and is filling. The portion served is good for one pax.

Next, we ordered the famous Japanese Soba. It is the simplest meal, yet hardest to prepare.

Cha Soba RM 20.00
Cold green tea flavored Buckwheat Noodle with cold dipping soba sauce.

Mix all the ingredients together in the cold dipping soba sauce and dip the noodles in for the taste of the soba sauce. Do not keep the noodles too long as it is to be eaten when served cold.

And the dinner set we ordered.

Gyu Toubanyaki Zen RM 42.00

The complete set consists of kobachi, zensai, salad, sashimi, touban yaki, nimono, rice, miso soup, pickles, chawan-mushi and dessert.

Rice and sidelines.


Slices of Beef (Touban Yaki)

The technique of grilling the beef slice to medium well is to turn the beef slice every 4 to 5 seconds until you see the top layer is cooked.

We ended the dinner with sips of cocktails and mocktails.

Cocktails (front) and Mocktails (behind)

Cocktails (from left): Sake Margarita and Sake Screw Driver; RM 10 each.

Mocktails (from left): Fruit Fantasy, Fruit Punch and Tropical Delight; RM 12 each.

Environment & Cleanliness: 9/10

This restaurant gives us a comfortable feeling. The respectful chefs, waiter and waitresses wear formal attire and greeted each and every guest.

Food Presentation: 9/10
Food prepared are all arranged well presented, very similar to what you see from the menu.

Portion: 7.5/10

Portion served for a person is good enough. If you wanted to eat a few things at once, you can order the smaller portion or ala carte.

Taste: 8/10
For a Japanese restaurant, Miraku's taste of food is up to the standard.

Service: 9/10

There are buttons in the private rooms where you can press to call the waiters. The waiters will come within a minute the button is pressed. Also, they are attentive to their customers' feedback.

Value for money: 8/10
Miraku is a fine dining Japanese Restaurant and the price paid is reasonable for the environment and food served.

OVERALL
A restaurant we would love to visit again, for it's authenticity and the comfortable environment.

Current promotions at Miraku are:
1. Unagi Promotion
2. Eat Sushi All You on every second and forth week of Sunday
3. Happy Hour
4. Miraku Loyalty Card

Miraku Japanese Restaurant

1st Floor, G Hotel

168A Persiaran Gurney

10250 Penang

Tel: 604-229 8702

Fax: 604-229 8560

Business Hours: Monday to Sunday

Lunch 12.00pm to 2.30pm

Dinner 6.00pm to 10.30pm

Previous visit: http://www.foodpromotions.com.my/2009/06/invited-review-miraku-g-hotel-penang.html