Coco Tei, Jalan Delima

10/26 (Fri)

Frankly, I was thinking twice if I shall write about Coco Tei. The dining experience wasn't too exciting. For the sake of 'remember do not come back', I decided to keep it as a record. Coco Tei interested me for its Kaiseki course, which is the main attraction for me to purchase the cash voucher from Groupon. Probably a good chance to 'test water' before a big spending straight to Kaiseki. Coco Tei is not that difficult to spot if you know where is Levain. It is just side by side. Free parking is available if you dine in at Coco Tei. I made a reservation at 12pm for a tatami setting. It ends up as a 'fake' tatami. Ish! 

First thing first, the lighting in the restaurant is way to dim for us. Photos were taken at ISO1600 with F2.8 aperture open to max and not to forget +1 EV, just enough to maintain the shutter speed at a bare minimum level of 1/8. Dim lighting is bearable, romantic right? What about the annoying kids behind us? Singing, playing Ipad game in loud mode, walking around .. ! Change table of course. Yet, the best joke, waitress "Har, where you want to change? We fully booked wor ..." Har! What to do .. bare with it lor ~

Nothing spectacular about the green tea. Oh, nice pot! We flipping the menu, squeezing our eyes to read it. My mate gave up and decided to grab for an udon set. Something soupy for someone that slept at 6am just to complete his game. The bowl of udon taste quite OK though. It will be better if soup spoon is provided not a normal rice spoon. It is inconvenient to drink the soup using rice spoon as the bowl is kinda deep.

The unagi on top of white rice was a set with Udon. Japanese white rice taste great as usual. Unagi ... taste like instant packet unagi. The unagi with brown rice (or soy sauce rice) was an order of mine. Hmm ... unagi taste like instant packet unagi. Just, mine was ... 2 packets maybe? Since it served in 2 layers. The first layer (which is the top piece) was boneless, yet the second layer (which hide in between rice) was with bones! Dangerous!!

Ermm, I think this was Unagi something something with something maki (so, today is unagi day?) This maki at least taste great (finally something good)

We paid a little extra for the meal, after using the cash voucher. Generally, the food wasn't too bad. Mediocre, maybe? For the price range, sadly to say that food quality and service level is below the par. I would definitely go for Kura in One World Hotel, or if really one in KL, Wasabi Bistro in Mandarin Oriental. Even, Fukuya is offering better bargain. Darn! I shall just go to Fukuya instead! (planning ... planning ...)

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