Omakase Dinner @ KENJI Japanese Restaurant, KL
After many visits to KENJI Japanese Restaurant for their lunch sets , I finally set chance to check out their dinner time. Aside from the usual dishes, Kenji Japanese Restaurant offers Omakase Dinner that is priced at Priced at Rm 350 per pax; comes with Starter, Sashimi, Chawanmushi, Grilled Fish, Grilled Beef, Rice Dish and Dessert.
The omakase dinner is pretty value for money considering the top notch quality and freshest ingredients air-flown from Japan, also the generous portion given! Dishes may vary as according to the day’s availability. In this course, diners get two main dishes such as grilled fish and grilled beef, while I got tempura and grilled beef tongue on that night.
Omakase Dinner
Priced at Rm 350 per pax
7 Courses – Starter, Sashimi, Chawanmushi, Grilled Fish, Grilled Beef, Rice Dish and Dessert.
Chef Takaku at work.
My always first thing first, a glass of House Sake to start the meal. Takashimizu Honjozo from Akita with a rich aroma and rounded flavour that went superb with our starter, especially the ankimo.
Sakizuke
Starter – Ankimo & Goma Tofu
So happy to see the ankimo on the starter as I am a big fan of ankimo. Angler Fish Liver (ankimo) was creamy and buttery, best appetiser plate to pair with sake! While goma tofu was aromatic, rich and creamy black sesame tofu.
Sashimi
Assorted 4 kinds of sashimi – Yellowtail Raw from Kagoshima, Kobujime Flouder (Hirame) from Miyagi, Surf Clam (Hokkigai) from Hokkaido and Bluefin Tuna Ootoro from Miyagi.
Kobujime Hirame was the flounder fish sandwiched in between sheets of kelps for a night in order to bring out the refined flavour of the fish. It was indeed very umami on the palate. Ootoro was in its perfect marbling, interlacing with beautiful fats. At once I thought it was wagyu!!
Just as if you do not know, KENJI has their own tuna processing factory in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture. And Shiogama Port is the place with the largest catch of maguro tuna in Japan! And so KENJI brings in the best maguro tuna directly from their own place!
Kombu for the Kobujime Hirame
Chawanmushi
Silky smooth steamed egg custard, loaded with lots of ingredients, sweet and umami.
Tempura
Pumpkin, capsicum, mushroom, eggplant, and shrimp; all lightly coated in a thin crispy batter, with a nice crunch and non-greasy at all. Mushroom was bursting with its juice and how the capsicum could be so sweet!?
Sweet pumpkin
Grilled Beef Tongue
Beautiful cuts of beef tongue, springy, bouncy with a light crunch.
Rice Bowl
Unagi Don served with miso soup
Perfectly grilled Kagoshima’s Unagi, layered on a bed of fluffy rice and a drizzle of unagi sauce. The unagi was sooooooo creamy and fatty, buttery aromatic in its light charred edges, with almost melt-in-mouth texture on the palate. They do have this on a la carte menu; do give a try if you are a fan of unagi!
Dessert
Given a few options of flavours such as yuzu, matcha and black sesame ice cream. We picked up the Yuzu sorbet and Matcha Ice Cream as our sweet ending.
KENJI Japanese Restaurant
132, Jalan Kasah, Medan Damansara,
50490 Kuala Lumpur.
Opening hours:
Lunch: 11.30am to 2pm
Dinner: 5.30pm to 10pm
Closed on Mondays
