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Report from Bangkok Post dated Friday 24 December 2010 :-
Bishamon @ Tee Off Driving Range,(near Sukhumvit Soi 42/1),Sukhumvit Road
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A joint venture between the Sihanatkathakul family (of the Landmark Bangkok) and Uomasa, a well-respected sushi and sashimi eatery in Soi Thong Lor, Bishamon is a ramen-orientated Japanese restaurant that offers an alternative to the typically space-limited ramen joints.
Bishamon's impressive ramen menu presents varieties of ramen from three different regions: Sapporo, Tokyo and Kyushu. Most recommended is Sapporo's original miso ramen (220 baht), the restaurant's signature, which comes with thick, chewy noodles, succulent slices of pork loin in the intense miso-infused soup made with chicken and pork broth.
Though labelling itself a ramen hub, this 80-seat restaurant has almost every kind of culinary Japanese treat imaginable whether it be sushi, sashimi, gyoza (pan-fried dumplings), tempura, grilled fish, yakitori (grilled meat on skewers), deep-fried items, curries or rice bowls.
From its huge, 20-page menu that features almost 100 other items, mentaiko gyoza (100 baht), which comes dressed with delightful salty and spicy fish roe, sauce is worth sampling. And those desiring the tastily oily treat will find cheese eel roll (180 baht) truly captivating.
If you're in the mood for grilled fish, go for hokke (260 baht), which yields an aromatic, oily taste and firmer texture.
The Bishamon set (260 baht) promises to delight everyone in the family. It features pork katsu (deep-fried, bread crumb-coated succulent pork tenderloin), fried prawn and fried chicken with a bowl of Japanese rice, miso soup and a side dish.
Bishamon
Tee Off Driving Range
(near Sukhumvit Soi 42/1)
Sukhumvit Road
Tel 02-713-6060
Open: Daily 11:30am-10pm
Parking: On the premises
Credit cards: Visa and MasterCard
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Thursday 24 March 2011:-
Ramen Champions @ Arena 10, Thong Lor Soi 10
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Arena 10, a lifestyle ground in the middle of Soi Thong Lor, delights ramen buffs in Bangkok with a permanent exhibition of 6 famous ramen restaurants from the Land of the Rising Sun.
There you will find an array of Japanese noodle dishes, including tsukemen, or cold noodle with a bowl of hot soup (260 baht), at Tsujita restaurant; Setagaya ramen, or hot noodle and pork cutlets in salt-infused soup (270 baht) at Setagaya; paitan ramen, or noodle in rich chicken broth (290 baht), at Kibi; Gokumiso ramen, or noodle in soya bean paste infused pork soup (220 baht), at Gokumiso; tsukemen (260 baht), at Taishoken; and kuromiso ramen, or noodle in dark miso soup (280 baht), at Shodai Keisuke.
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The 6 ramen restaurants are located at Arena 10, Thong Lor Soi 10, Sukhumvit Soi 55. Call 02-392-9561_6.
Link : http://www.bangkokpost.com/food/features/228336/ramen-champions-arena-10
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Friday 25 March 2011:-
Heavenly Honmono -- Foodies rank this Japanese eatery among the best
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Despite the economic recession over the past few years, the gastronomic appreciation among Bangkok diners doesn't seem to have gone downwards. Amazingly, as time goes, people's palates get even more sophisticated and restaurateurs never fail to well cater to the highfaluting progress.
When it comes to Japanese cuisine, in particular, diners today look for the creme de la creme. They enjoy fatty tuna, of which can be priced higher than a house, demand expensive Matsuzaka beef, and take pleasure in drinking a shot of sea urchin roe. And many of them flock to Honmono as the destination of choice.
Since it first opened 18 months ago, Honmono has been known among local foodies as a place where they can find some of the best sushi in town.
Honmono's original restaurant, located on Thong Lor Soi 23, is where you can expect to brush shoulders with some of the city's most discerning gastronomes. While its second branch _ the subject of this week's review _ is set on the 3rd floor of Central Chidlom department store and open every day with no break in the afternoon, which makes it easier for everyone to visit at any time of the day.
When we stopped by the 7-month-old Chidlom branch for a late lunch on a weekday, the place was packed. I could tell that more than half of the crowd of 100 people were business executives and Japanese expats _ only a few of them looked like ordinary shoppers.
The menu was huge, featuring almost anything you might look for in an upmarket sushi restaurant. With an extremely large selection of sushi and sashimi made from imported prime grade ingredients, such as otoro (the fattiest part of fatty tuna), kinmedai (bigeye snapper), shima aji ("striped jack fish"), hamachi (yellowtail), taraba (king crab), hotate (scallop), and uni (sea urchin roe) as its specialties, the restaurant also offers grilled items, hot pot and red meat.
Honmono's regulars usually begin their meal with shirauo salad (450 baht), which offers a large portion of tiny whitebait lightly battered and deep-fried until crispy, tossed with fresh salad leaves dredged in sour and salty dressing and stream of mayonnaise. This scrumptious salad proved to be an appetiser not to be missed.
Another popular starter is the crunchy roll (300 baht). Five pieces of tasty shrimp tempura maki are served under a heap of brittle tempura flakes, laced with sweet okonomiyaki sauce to offer a mouthful of delight.
Being at an eatery that serves some of the best fresh Japanese fish in town, we couldn't afford to miss out on sampling the sashimi, so our party of four settled on the matsu sashimi platter (2,200 baht), which arrived on a bed of crushed ice in a giant ceramic bowl with generous slices of otoro, hamachi, shima aji, red snapper, salmon and tuna, together with fresh scallops, sweet shrimps and seaweed.
Size-wise, I have to admit they were the largest sashimi slices I've ever encountered. And taste-wise, every single piece proved to be super fresh and of the highest quality. The otoro, which I consider the gastronomic climax of the dish, in particular, was so well-marbled that it appeared in a pale pink colour _ much like slabs of Matsuzaka beef _ and yielded a supple texture with a heavenly sweet and fatty flavour.
Another dish that presented a number of Honmono's culinary luxuries at one go was the assortment of the chef's special hand-formed sushi menu (3,500 baht). For this large display of 12 sushi delicacies, toppings included otoro (in fresh and flash burnt versions), hamichi (in fresh and flash burnt versions with aromatic citrus sauce), kinmedai, uni, steamed crab leg meat, seared foie gras, glaze-grilled eel, and grilled Mutsuzaka beef. Meanwhile, the keen gourmands who aren't intimidated or concerned about cholesterol will cry tears of joy when presented with the sushi rice topped with three savoury ingredients _ sea urchin roe, raw quail egg, and chopped raw tuna _ which the platter also featured.
A wide variety of classic sushi and maki are also on offer, priced individually at 100-400 baht per order. While the chef's specials, including the Matsuzaka sushi, otoro sushi and horse meat sushi are priced between 220 and 850 baht.
Should you wish to have something warm, soothing and filling, try the taraba kaminabe (700 baht). The traditional-style Japanese paper hot pot, in which a generous portion of Hokkaido king crab meat, shiitake mushroom, golden noodle mushroom, tofu, carrot, cabbage and konjac noodles bathed in a tasty soup, was served over a flame and turned out to be very delicious.
From the grilled menu items, we found pleasure with the lightly salted and charbroiled hamachi head (650 baht), which yielded lots of firm, juicy and flavourful meat.
Honmono isn't only good on savoury dishes, but also on desserts. Its best-selling sweet course, Zenzai, or grilled mochi in a hot sweet red bean soup (120 baht), was satisfactory.
To sum up, Honmono's dishes can be described as an integration between grand quantity and excellent quality. And, for the Chidlom branch, it's proved to be much more than a simple place for hungry shopaholics.
Honmono
3rd Floor, Central Chidlom
Phloenchit Road
Call : 02-254-9137/8
Open Daily : 11.00 a.m. to 9.30 p.m.
Parking at Central Chidlom
Most credit cards accepted
Link : http://www.bangkokpost.com/food/features/228532/heavenly-honmono
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Posted on: 11:07 am on Mar. 25, 2011
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Tuesday 26 April 2011:-
J curry
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Having recently disappeared from its original location, the lovely, peanut-shape curry rice restaurant once situated in the Emporium shopping centre has now found its new home just a stone's throw away from the old spot.
Japanese curry fans, who are in search homemade curry prepared from scratch and without any MSG, can now visit the four-year-old J Curry at UBC II on Sukhumvit Soi 33.
Among its best sellers are the katsu curry with cheese (180 baht), curry rice with stewed beef and mixed mushroom (160 baht), curry rice with karraage chicken, carrots and potatoes (140 baht) and curry rice with beef hamburg, egg and cheese (160 baht). While the newly introduced udon curry with your choice of topping (160-190 baht) is also popular.
For sweets, try the home-made crepe with banana and chocolate sauce, or strawberry with fresh cream (both are 40 baht).
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.J Curry is located in the basement of UBC II Building, Sukhumvit Soi 33. Call 08-1657-9889.
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Posted on: 1:33 am on April 26, 2011
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Thanks pussylover69 for your posts about jap restaurant updates.
My question is :
Who out there knows of any good quality buffet deals for sushi and sashimi ?
Or just a great japanese food deal out there in the big mango?
Thank you!
Arrabista
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Posted on: 7:22 am on April 27, 2011
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Quote: from arrabista on 7:22 pm on April 27, 2011
Thanks pussylover69 for your posts about jap restaurant updates.
Thank you for your appreciation and support!
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Posted on: 9:20 am on April 27, 2011
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Yes indeed... an invaluable service for those forum members who are not able to navigate to bangkokpost.com and locate the restuarant reviews on their own...
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Posted on: 5:15 am on May 4, 2011
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Friday 13 May 2011:-
Rakuza Tokyo - Nippon cuisine at its finest
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At a time when the Japanese restaurant scene in Bangkok is, according to some local marketing gurus, about to face a market saturation, the opening of another Japanese eatery may easily be a "so what" of concern among city dwellers.
So, amid dozens of choices of Nippon cuisine offered in and around the Thong Lor area, Rakuza Tokyo seemed to me a little piece of the finished puzzle. I was never excited to check it out... well, not until duty called anyway.
Upon arrival, the 60-seater restaurant looked just like its name sounded _ contemporary and chic. The spacious glass-wrapped restaurant was divided into four sections: modern sushi bar, main dining room, open kitchen, and the al fresco terrace in the back.
The menu of Rakuza, a Tokyo-born restaurant with 17 outlets worldwide, was interesting. It displayed an impressive variety of East-meets-West dishes, together with a number of classic sushi choices.
The first dish to hit our table was the sashimi salad (390 baht), which presented a liberal amount of sliced salmon, snapper and squid on a pile of fresh greens dredged with shrimp roe, sesame seeds, as well as salty and sweet wasabi-soy dressing, before finally perfected with deep-fried whitebait.
Thanks to the pleasant mixture of flavours and magnificent textures, particularly the supple seafood complemented by the crisp vegetables and crunchy shrimp roe, this dish really deserves a "highly recommended" rating.
Another dish we would definitely come back for was the standard omakase (980 baht), which displayed _ on a black stone plate _ seven pieces of sushi, including tuna, snapper, sweet omelette, salmon, yellowtail and conch, of which the latter three were slightly cooked and flash-burnt.
This sushi dish, accompanied by three pieces of tuna roll, was not only generously served, but also a mouth-watering explosion of flavours and freshness. The huge pieces of fish and other seafood, which were laid on top of sushi rice, yielded a pleasant flavourful chew of natural sweetness.
For those who wish to try some top-notch delicacies, Rakuza offers a honmagura sushi tasting platter (590 baht). The three pieces of sushi with a selection of fish laid on top _ otoro (fattiest part of tuna), chutoro (fatty tuna) and akami (lean tuna) _ proved to be impeccable.
However, if beef is more to your fancy, the Gyu Tataki, or seared Australian wagyu beef (320 baht), might be worth ordering. The imported beef, cooked to the customer's order, was presented in western carpaccio style yet with an Asian flavour, thanks to the sour, salty and spicy dressing _ a mixture of soy sauce, turnip, ginger, chilli and spring onions.
I personally fell deeply in love with one of Rakuza's signature entrees, which was presented on a bed of mashed potatoes and served with a thick cut of flash grilled tuna that is stacked over with huge Hokkaido scallops and seared foie gras dressed in thick balsamic sauce (720 baht).
A great unification of the pleasingly firm, chewy and flavoursome seafood, sumptuous duck liver, smooth potato puree and intense salty-sweet dressing, this dish was both distinctive and addictive.
For a thoroughly cooked delight, the grilled red snapper and deep-fried soft-shell crab with spicy lemon butter soy sauce (490 baht) proved a good choice. The appearance might be contemporary, but the taste was very familiar to the local palate. The sour and peppery dressing lent a special Thai zest, while the mashed potatoes offered a Western feel to this fish-crab fare.
Initially, the garlic fried rice (150 baht) was not going to be the subject of my review. However, after I overheard one of the servers cheerfully mentioning it to some customers at a neighbouring table about how its tastiness was guaranteed, I decided to give it a try _ and I was so glad I did!
For dessert, it took me quite some time to make a decision. It wasn't because there was nothing interesting enough to choose, but five out of the six menu items sounded so equally tempting, yet I knew I only had room for one or two.
Finally, I settled for the best-selling mochi cream (180 baht) and chocolate pudding with vanilla ice cream (180 baht). Both were truly delightful.
The first dessert featured soft and glutinous dumplings stuffed with mildly sweet fresh cream then topped with whipped cream, while the latter, the smooth chocolate custard, ice cream and raspberry sauce complemented each other perfectly.
For photos of the food and location address, go to :
http://bit.ly/mTwULW
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Posted on: 9:00 am on May 13, 2011
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Report from Bangkok Post dated 24 June 2011:-
Good value for Money - For lovers of DIY Japanese barbecue or hotpot buffet, Yuu Jung satisfies all
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An all-you-can-eat version of the long cherished Yuu Yakiniku restaurant, Yuu Jung was recently born to answer to the widespread request for an economical alternative of the more premium, more expensive Yuu.
There are two outlets of Yuu Jung. The first opened early this year at Paradise Park on Srinakarin Road. The latest addition, this week's subject of review, opened three weeks ago at the brand new community mall, Amorini, near Suan Siam waterpark.
Occupying a spacious unit on the 2nd floor of the "Greece-inspired" shopping plaza, Yuu Jung boasts brightly lit interiors, thanks to its glass walls and high ceiling, decked to offer a comfortable dining experience.
The dining style is DIY Japanese barbecue and hotpot buffet. For 229 baht or 388 baht per person, guests can enjoy many items and as much as they like from the extensive BBQ and shabu shabu menu in 75 minutes. The items are to be cooked at a tabletop stove, which is exclusively designed and made to serve as a two-in-one cooking station.
The meat can be grilled on the brass sheet encircling the ceramic pot of boiling soup. However, I found the cooking instruments, though well served its purpose, rather small for diners who are seriously here for the barbecue or shabu shabu.
We had to settle on either a regular or premium priced buffet. The more economical one would allow us to partake of the 36-item selection, which includes seven choices of beef, pork and chicken, eight kinds of seafood and a number of meat balls and vegetables. The more lavish choice featured 15 more choices, including premium graded beef and pork, tempura prawn, garlic fried rice, salmon fish ball and seaweed salad. We picked the latter, of course.
Our protein of choice was premium beef tenderloin, premium sirloin, beef hump, beef chuck, pork collar, pork loin, pork belly, pork bottom, shishamo (egged fish), salmon belly, squid and prawn.
All options of beef and pork were sliced thinly and could be grilled or boiled.
I loved the premium sirloin and beef hump, which yielded a good amount of fat that gave the meat a juicy flavour. These two types of beef were tasty either on the sizzling barbecue or as part of the hotpot. They were to be compared with the leaner version of tenderloin, which could be over cooked easily.
However, a different impression was lent by the pork. I found that the leaner version, tasted more subtle, yet was as super tender as the fatty type. To be exact, the pork loin tasted better than pork belly, which was oily.
The marinated pork and beef were overwhelmed with pepper and were less delectable.
Except for the egged fish and the very fatty salmon belly, which are best grilled, I found the seafood more ideal for boiling than for barbecuing, as were the various kinds of meatballs. Among the selection we tried were salmon, shrimp, imitate crab claw and seaweed pork balls. They were fine. While the vegetables on offer were Napa cabbage, morning glory, celery, cabbage and choi sum, and eringi and golden needle mushrooms.
Salad and deep-fried items are great to kickstart any meal. We enjoyed seaweed salad, potato salad and moyashi (bean sprout salad), deep-fried battered chicken, and koroge (deep-fried stuffed mashed potato).
One order of the shrimp tempura yields three pieces of the golden brown, deep-fried battered prawn and it was satisfying. The dish was served conventionally with the special tempura dipping sauce, which is to be flavoured by minced turnip and ginger.
As a tasty stomach filler, the mild-tasting garlic fried rice intermingled perfectly with the grilled meat and the sauce.
Desserts and beverages are not included in the buffet and you have to order them separately. Among the 10 dessert options were cookie creme brulee (90 baht) and lychee jelly (50 baht), the best-seller being yukiya, or shaved milky ice with strawberry and mochi (139 baht). This huge-portion is sweet and best for sharing, and was delightful.
During our weekend lunch visit, the restaurant was fully occupied and service was the only factor was lacking. Our table wasn't properly looked after. Empty dipping sauce bowls were left sitting at a very noticeable spot for a long time until we finally asked for attention. The same thing with the shabu stock that was left scarce. It seemed the number of staff wasn't coordinated with the number of guests.
All in all, the meal was satisfying. And, as proof of a good ventilation system, very little trace of the grilled food odour lingered on our clothes when we left the restaurant.
Link : http://www.bangkokpost.com/food/features/243745/good-value-for-money
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