Mikan Japanese Cuisine & Bistro Re-vishifted

Wow. It's been a year plus now since I ate at Mikan Japanese Cuisine & Bistro. You can read about my last visit here. I saw Groupon Malaysia was selling Mikan cash voucher at 50% discount. Every RM 50 voucher will be sold at RM 25 a piece. So, I paid RM50 and got a total of RM 100 worth of Mikan cash voucher. It's time to revisit Mikan again.

Before I could utilize my vouchers, I got email from Groupon that Mikan has been shifted to Damansara Perdana. Time extension was given. Phew. I left only 5 days before the vouchers expired. So, two weeks ago I asked my cousins Joyce and Jas to tag along with me.

The shop was only 80% complete according to the co-owner, Casey. There's still a little bit of touch up needs to be done. I left the ordering to Casey, which is somewhat like an Omakase. I didn't even see the menu.

Coincidentally Nicole was there too. It's been a while I didn't camwhore with her. So, a #selca is a must, especially she just got her long hair cut short that day itself.

Back to the food. For starter, Casey recommended Kinoko（木野子） Salada (Mushrooms Salad). Using cooked Enoki and Shitake sprinkled with Ebiko tossed with cherry tomatoes, Japanese cucumbers and lettuce dressed with special sesame salad dressing. There's a mix of warmness from the mushrooms and coolness from the vegetables. The dressing is nice for a Japanese style salad. Nice playing of different texture. Substitution of meat with mushrooms made this salad healthier to be eaten.

Kinoko Salada (RM16++)

Moving on is Shake Sashimi (Salmon Sashimi), which according to Casey he just collected it fresh that afternoon. If, it's that fresh, I will want taste of it. True enough, the salmon sashimi is so fresh that just a dab of soya sauce is enough to make it taste good. What I like is that Mikan is not stingy at all with their sashimi, the cut is thicker that some of the Japanese restaurant I've been too where I only get very thinly sliced sashimi. Ah, it's salmon orgasm in my mouth.

Shake Sashimi (RM16++)

The current trend of Japanese cuisine in Malaysia is the use of mentaiko sauce in the dishes. We had two mentaiko dishes that night. Mentai Tamagoyaki (Grilled Eggs with Mentai Sauce) and Hotate Mentai (Scallops with Mentai Sauce).

The Mentai Tamagoyaki looks simple but it's quite hard to make it taste good especially the right texture for the eggs which is not over or undercooked. The chef in Mikan did it just right. Top with the flavourful mentai sauce. Yums.

Mentai Tamagoyaki RM12++

The most expensive dish that night is the Hotate Mentai. Why? The scallops are air flown from Hokkaido and it's the biggest scallop I've ever eaten in my life. My mouth can only fit in half of the scallop. The Hotate Mentai here beats all the other versions that I've eaten in so many other Japanese restaurant chains.

Hotate Mentai (RM45++)

Last but not least, something that I rarely see in any Japanese restaurant here in Malaysia. Behold, le Braised Pork. Although it's not some expensive pork like the Black Fur Pork from Japan is used the chef was able to make the Braised Pork so juicy and tender that it will just melts in my mouth. The broth is the best. Tasted just nice, not too salty nor too greasy. A few pieces of pork lards were put in there to just bring out the aroma. It's a must order for pork lover. Although I've ate quite a lot of the braised pork but I don't feel 'jelak' at all.

Braised Pork (RM32++)

We also had Mushroom Skewers (RM4.50++ per stick) but I didn't take any photo because Casey told us to eat it quick while it's warm. Not much flavouring was used but the natural sweetness of the mushrooms made up for it.

It's such a wonderful dinner. High quality ingredients are used and the price is quite reasonable. Also, there's pork served now after shifted to Damansara Perdana. I will surely come here quite often from now on.




Address:

Mikan Japanese Cuisine & Bistro
LG 03, Plaza Emerald North
PJU 8/3A, Damansara Perdana
Petaling Jaya

Tel: 03-7713 5288
Lunch: 11.30 a.m. - 3.00 p.m.
Dinner: 6.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikanjapanesecuisine

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7aste Queenstown, Ecoba, Damansara Perdana

Many of you that is in my Facebook and follows me on Twitter will know that I update a lot on 7aste Queenstown event. Finally, last Friday is the final leg for 7aste Queenstown which happened in Ecoba, Damansara Perdana. The two previous leg was done in Johor Bahru and Penang.

Arriving early has it's advantage of getting a nice spot.

Got the VIP access. I can invite my friends to come with me and there's a table reserved for invited bloggers.

I should have waited for the finger foods to be served before I order this diluted carbonara. Sigh. Wasted my RM18.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

Masquerade mask. I gave it to Wilee not long after this picture has been taken.

Wilee dressed like an OL lol.

MC of the night came out and this mark the party's going to start.




This is BenDan. Why in the world will someone called herself 笨蛋? :P Just kiddinglah.

A failed camwhore (I accidentally zoomed) with Jiayeen that turned out to be a nice face shot.

Met a few new faces to 7aste. Like Jolyn here.

Can't resist to take a picture like this.

Theme of this 7aste is Queenstown, New Zealand. Hakka Dance is of course one of the performance.

I then went to "Coronet Peak" for a game of skiing.

All dressed up and ready to ski.

Well, the skiing is actually skiing on Wii. The 7 fastest player will win some great prizes. The top will win iPad2. There's also prizes like Beats Headphone, Nintendo DS, and PSP.

Bumped into Kate after I've done with my skiing. I made it to the 7th place but later got kicked out by players with better time.

Jazzed up the night with some jazz performance.

Bloggers will be bloggers. Clevermunkey is stil sober here, I think. :p

That girl in green is very camera sensitive.

Brought along my cousin Joyce and her friend.

With my friend Elvin. I think I already drank 4 or 5 bottles of Carlsberg at this stage. Look at my face.

Taking picture of Jackie taking BenDan.

Her name is Iris. Hope I spelled it correctly.

Guess who's this?

Now I know what's the mask is for.

Bumped into Nicole that I didn't meet for quite sometime. She and Casey were queuing up to play the skiing game. They got a very bad experience in the tent when there's some bitch smoking inside and the cigarette bud hit Nicole's feet. Sigh, some people are just so selfish.



Late in the event, some of the usual suspects were finally appearing.

Like Isabella here.

And, of course, Esther.

Also Helenness, my favourite person when it comes to Hennessy Artistry events.

It was fun meeting up with the bloggers there even though I didn't win anything. Can't wait for the next 7aste event. Which city we'll be going next?

7ASTE New York at Hex & Mayfair, Damansara Perdana

Last Friday I went to another 7aste event and also the last one for this year. This time the venue changed to next block, which is Hex & Mayfair, Menara Taiko, PJ Trade Centre, Damansara Perdana. The previous one was held at Ecoba, Menara Bata, PJ Trade Centre, Damansara Perdana.

I invited my cousin Joyce along because she kept complaining that I never invite her to any of the events I went to.

My cousin Joyce and I.

For VIP, I get a bottle of Jack Daniels and a table (for those that came early). Heineken free flow for all guests. If you want to get updates about future 7aste event, then you should register yourself here. It's FOC.

Other than the free flow of booze and awesome finger foods, I always looking forward the the game at 7aste event. This time it's Wall St. There's 7 branded items which you can predict the price of the item in USD. The one that can guessed the closest price to the real price will be able to win that item. The 1st round there's Calvin Klein watch, Coach sling bag, and Tiffany & Co. silver necklace. Too bad the prices I guessed were too high.

There are girls dressed like OL (Office Lady) to help you with the game.

The party has not even started for 1 hour and Mike Yip's face is red like a baboon's backside.

Crowds.

Thank you Leonard for the invitation.

Joyce and Louise. I found out that night she's my college junior.

Shannon C that I bumped into very often nowadays. Now I won't mistaken her for Tziaaa already :p

Happy to see Weii in the event, she's back to Malaysia after spending months in New Zealand.

Jiayeen that I've met in the previous 7aste. She was a former colleague with my cousin sister.

Jessica and Ceddy were having so much fun.

The show started with Harith Iskandar telling her Singaporean vs Malaysian jokes. He's funny.

My table then became the most popular table to hangout.

Bumped into a very slim Jun Jun Riko there. What's the secret?

Later into the night, the waiters started serving piping hot oven baked pizza. Esther and Taufulou wanted a piece of it or many pieces in the end lol. Esther look hippie right?

The pizza is piping hot with melting cheese all over it. Yums.




Peeps that were there too are Joshua Law, Clevermunkey, Feeq, Jason, Chloe, Yann Lee, Samantha, and Kelvin. Also met a few new faces.

Another great 7aste event. Looking forward to more of it next year.