Last Saturday, just as I was about to start cooking, an electricity outage happened. I thought the electricity would come back on after 30 minutes, but when it was already noon and there was still no sign of it, we decided to go out for lunch instead. A few days ago, while chatting with Hooi Ling, she recommended a Japanese restaurant in town on Chow Thye Rd named Isaribi. And since we have not had Japanese food as a family for a long time now, we headed that way.
The place was not hard to find and the entrance looked very calm and serene, what with the lush greenery in the porch area. We ordered the king sashimi set (which was not as king-sized as we imagined :P), the semi-grilled beef slices (awesome flavor, taken with chopped ginger and some unidentifiable sauce), and of course, chawan mushi for Ethan. They only had prawn and unagi chawan mushi though, and it costs RM10 per bowl! Took them mighty long to serve the chawan mushi as well… we thought it would be spectacularly good, but it was rather bland. Nevertheless, Ethan gulped down the chawan mushi and even pinched a bit of the shredded carrot and radish from the sashimi set. Oh and because it took them so long to serve our food, Ethan boy got impatient and decided to roam and explore the restaurant instead.
When we were done with our sets, either the servings were not big enough or we were immensely hungry that day, for we decided to order a salmon skin temaki, ebikko (fish roe) and as an after-thought, the cold soba too. The salmon skin roll was one the best we had ever tasted: crunchy and ohsogood with wasabi. And when Ethan saw the soba, he demanded to have some too, which was a surprise to me because I hadn’t expected him to like it. He really enjoyed eating each and every strand, slurping away like a pro! Didn’t manage to take a picture of him doing that because just as I was ready to snap a photo, we were served some fruits and Ethan decided he would like to have those instead. In the end, he gobbled down a piece of honeydew all on his own.
All in all, a good healthy Japanese lunch, but only if you have all the time in the world to spare… know what I mean?
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I love their salmon lasagna! Yeah i know, it doesn’t sound very japanese, but it is really good….haha
Joyce says: That’s the first time I have heard of salmon lasagna.
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HI! your boy has quite a nice set of eye lashes! they are long , aren’t they !?
Joyce says: Really long! Longer than mine, in fact!
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Good recommendation right? 😀
Joyce says: It was all right, but service is rather slow.
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I love Japanese food too! I really should go redeem my free birthday cake from Sakae Sushi soon!
Joyce says: I also want in on the birthday cake! Is it green tea flavored?
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Looks like everyone enjoyed the Jap meal, even lil Ethan.
Joyce says: Yup, we all did 🙂
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Wow, RM10 for a cup of Chawan Mushi? My, that’s really expensive!! But the one with the unagi on top looks really good! Aiyoh, blog hopping to blogs like yours at this time of the day makes me go hungry!
Joyce says: Yes, I was stunnned with the price too! But it could have tasted better with a little extra salt.
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i’ll pass based on slow service. I really only go to places which has snappy service these days – tough to entertain a squirming toddler for long.
Joyce says: You are so right. Speedy service is one of the priorities now with a toddler along.
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saw the unagi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!miss it so much!
Joyce says: You can go and have it ma..
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oh yes… japanese food never comes cheap. In fact i love jap food but DH’s family can’t tolerate with raw seafood…
Joyce says: Then you should just order the cooked stuff for him and his family while you take all the sashimi!
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