Late Lunch at Jogoya 11 November 2007

Jogoya is located at T3, Relish Floor, Starhill Gallery, 181 Jalan Bukit Bintang, 55100 Kuala Lumpur. (www.jogoya.com.tw) Tel: 03 21421268 Fax: 03 21488171. It is a Japanese Buffet chain originated from Taiwan. This restaurant can sit up to 500 people. (No pork is served)

Buffet Lunch 11:30 – 13:40 (Weekday) RM78.00 ++
11:00 – 14:00 (Weekend & PH)

Buffet Late Lunch 13:40 – 16:20 (Weekday) RM68.00 ++
14:00 – 16:20 (Weekend & PH)

Buffet Dinner 17:00 – 21:30 (Weekday) RM88.00 ++
17:00 – 21:30 (Weekend & PH)

Buffet Supper 21:30 – 01:00 (Weekday) RM78.00 ++
21:40 – 01:00 (Weekend & PH)

Child Fees

Height 80 – 100 cm : RM10 ++
Height 101 – 120 cm : 50% discount on adult price
Height 120 above : adult price

Before Tracy, Lee San and I even stepped foot inside the restaurant for our Buffet Late Lunch, we had to pay outside the restaurant. We waited about two minutes for them to set up the table for us. There weren’t many people eventhough we went there on a Sunday. We were allocated to Table No. 1 which is nearest to the exit. The good thing was we could walk a lot (exercise) before we can savour the food. The bad thing was this exercise wasted a lot of precious eating time.

This restaurant operates on an open kitchen concept where you can see what the chefs are doing. On each table, there were a few table no. clips. These clips are used for ordering food that need to be cooked by the chefs. In front of the open kitchens, there were names of different kind of food. All we had to do were to put the clip inside the small basket allocated to each kind of food. Then after the food was ready, the waitress would deliver the food to our table. Since there were not many people, I found the specially ordered food came quite fast. Besides the ordered food, there was plenty of ready made food available.

As I passed by some of the tables, I realised that couples are allocated to a cubicle whereby they were sitting next to each other and facing a wall in front of them. So I had no complaint with our open table eventhough it’s so near the entrance.

Though the size of the raw oysters was not very big but with a dash of lemon, wa la .. it really was wonderful gastronomic experience each time I tried this slimy thing.

As usual, I had raw and smoked salmon the most. In fact I can eat this seafood all day long and won’t get sick of it. The raw salmon was really fresh while the smoked salmon added a bit of zing to the taste.

The tempura prawn, fried scallop and fried miniature crabs were all very tasty with or without a dash of tartar sauce. All tasted very fresh as well.

The baked cheese snails though looked quite small and harmless but can be quite filling because of the cheese inside.

The batter for the soft shelled crabs covered the taste of the crabs until the crabs became tasteless. But they were quite crunchy though.

The clams were quite soft and tasty. The sashimi beef tasted very fresh, just like the shells. There were quite a lot of varieties of sushis so I only chose a few different types. They all tasted very fresh.

The cod fish was so delicious and I didn’t have enough of the enoki teppanyaki. Both were specially ordered food.

The only dessert I had was tiramisu and I was tempted to try another piece but my stomach told me otherwise. I did not even had the chance to have ice cream.

The young coconut drink was very refreshing and I had four of them throughout the meal before having jasmine tea almost at the end. We ended the meal by having fruits.

There were not only Japanese food available but basically I gave the dim sum, pasta, western food counters, etc a miss as I prefer to have Japanese food.

I don’t mind going back to this restaurant but since I went to Kampachi at Equatorial Hotel, I would say Kampachi offered better selection of Japanese food as compared to Jogoya.