Zen Japanese Restaurant, Sunway Pyramid

12/10 (Mon)

Since I already 守不住寡, and the next day is public holiday for Selangor state, and my mate suggested that we should go for a pre-holiday celebration since its going to be a holiday for me. He has no holiday as his campus falls under KL district but he had only 2hours class the next day, so can it consider as holiday too?

Anyway, here we go to Sunway Pyramid. We were wondering what to eat during our journey there.  My initial suggestion was Dome. However, the sad case is Pyramid has no Dome. Somehow, a desire of fried udon strikes my mate, hardly. Hence, we walked entire Pyramid, flipping the menu for all the Japanese restaurants. How many of them? Hmmm, Ichiban Ramen, Pasta Zanmai, Sushi Zanmai, Zen Japanese Restaurant. With the conclusion of non of them selling a fried udon, we made our move to Zen.

Zen, a Japanese restaurant run under the management of Super Dinning which also own Rakuzen, Kura and Hokkaido Ichiba. We had a very pleasant dinning experienced at Kura, guess its no harm to try out Zen since its under the same management with a similar menu. As usual, there is always a special promotion menu where we prefer to order one or two items from it. Generally we kinda avoid ordering sashimi. We still order for sushi, preferable with processed fish. 

We got ourselves a Ishikari Nabe, a hot pot with miso soup based, filled with toufu, mushrooms, vege, corns and salmon. A wonderful warm pot for a rainy night. I loves miso soup, hence, I loves this pot. My mate loves soup, hence, he loves this pot too. Salmons were fresh and portion was generous. Moreover, its a thick cut. 

 Ishikari Nabe

My mate placed an order for Garlic Fried Rice to go with his  Ishikari Nabe. The taste for the fried rice was mediocre. But, well ~ rice and soup always make him a happy boy. We were choosing either a Wagyu Burger or a Jingisukan, a grilled mutton. My mate decided to go for Wagyu Burger for the reason of Jingisukan has bean sprouts. Wagyu burgers served in 2 palm size patties on a fire pot. Oh, with a small bowl of terayaki sauce too. The beef patties were about half inches thick, warm, tender and juicy. It tasted awfully delicious with the sauce, a perfect match.  

Garlic Fried Rice & Wagyu Burger

As for myself, I ordered for a Sake-Chazuki, a Salmon with rice tea. It actually comes with a selections of salmon, salmon roe, plum or mentaiko. I chose Salmon as the topping. It served nicely with a grilled salmon, a white rice, a pot of fish soup (I guess, since it has Katsuobushi in the pot), seaweed with some crunchy stuff. I totally ignore the pickled and spring onion. 

Sake-Chazuki

Put the salmon on top of the white rice, put in all the seaweed and the crunchy cereals. Then pour in the fish broth. Its a very simple dish yet taste amazing after mixture of all the side dishes. 

We walked out the restaurant with a 100% satisfied tummy. No room for dessert no matter how I would really like to try out the Hokkaido Blueberry Daifuku. Cheers to the wonderful night ~

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