Mid Valley doesn't need another Japanese restaurant, but Kita No Zen is still a worthwhile addition, offering a better selection than most of this mall's conveyor-belt sushi outlets.
Maki stuffed with salmon & topped with avocado & collagen. Is a "collagen craze" sweeping KL's Japanese joints? Since we're fast losing the final vestige of our youthfulness, it probably wouldn't hurt for us to consume this purported health food.
Avocado & tofu salad. Melt-in-the-mouth bliss that's guilt-free for a change.
We love the ice cream here (ordered from the neighboring Hokkaido Ice Cream outlet, part of the Hokkaido Ichiba brand that houses Kita No Zen as well). Here's some smooth, milky Hokkaido corn ice cream with fresh corn & butterscotch sauce.
Vanilla & Japanese potato ice cream.
Hokkaido melon ice cream & Niagara wine sherbet with rock melon.
Vanilla & salt caramel ice cream, topped with butterscotch sauce, almonds, pecans & marshmallows. A true treat; one of our favorite desserts this year.
Mid Valley doesn't need another Japanese restaurant, but Kita No Zen is still a worthwhile addition, offering a better selection than most of this mall's conveyor-belt sushi outlets.
Our mission here was to sample this Oroya Sushi wine, bought from wineactually.com. The wine has been around for a few years, but we had fun finally testing whether it lives up to its claim of being the most harmonious alcoholic match for raw fish, vinegared rice & spicy wasabi.
Kita No Zen's sushi platter is an OK order, comprising a reasonably fresh-tasting assortment for less than RM100. Most of the usual suspects are here, including tuna belly, mackerel, prawn, squid, octopus, eel, sea urchin & salmon roe.
The wine went well with all of these. It seemed less acidic than other white wine varieties, though that also meant it was a bit bland and characterless.
Pacific horsehair crab, served cold. Firm, fleshy and sweet. But beware of its thorny shell.
Wasabi-marinated octopus entrails. Slimy but slurp-worthy.
I ordered this snow crab ramen. Inside the ramen were the snow crab legs, seaweed, beansprouts, egg and some scallions. The soup tasted slightly salty but very flavorful. The snow crab legs actually tasted ordinary but i must mentioned that the legs were quite meaty. The crab legs were fresh and sweet. I think the ramen tasted average. The texture of the ramen weren't springy. The portion for the ramen was huge, actually it can be shared by two person.
Omu Rice (RM13.00). Love it! Portion is just nice for ladies.
Miso Hotate Ramen (RM16.80) is full of big fat hotate. Not short-changing you for sure.
Ice chill dessert from Hokkaido, Macha Crepe (RM9.80). This green tea delight is not too sweet, another must try!
I like unagi very much and this set of sushi is really special. They use unagi to make different type of sushi. Small roll sushi with unagi and cucumber inside. The rice is tasty and unagi is delicious with the special sauce. The cucumber is really fresh. Another type of sushi is with egg, the egg is so firm and tasty. All the ingredients are fresh and i like the unagi very much. the unagi is tender and the sauce is really tasty and delicious. The seaweed is also taste nice.The price is also reasonable.
seafood salad
Hokkaido Ichiba is a Japanese Restaurant under the Super Dining Group. While I was there with my two other friends, we ordered one bowl of ramen for each of us.
Spicy Oyster Ramen
Miso Zuwaigani Ramen (RM 23.80)
Miso Hotate Ramen (RM 16.80)
Since I love sushi as well as soft shell crab, it's only natural that I would order the Soft Shell Crab Sushi. It really looks amazing when they served it with the soft shell crab and red lettuce leaves jutting out from the sushi and ended up looking like a flower arrangement. The taste was also quite memorable. The crab was crispy and luckily not soft and soggy like some which would be a disaster. And it also tasted really savoury with the crab meat tasting as fresh as you can get and the sweetness of the flesh is a plus. The sushi rice was very nicely packed and there is a light coating of fish roe on the sushi. Mayonnaise is drizzled on the plate for extra flavour. Excellent dish.
This is the hokkaido ichiba at the gardens mall.This is the first time i went to this hokkaido ichiba after their opening in one utama.Hokkaido Ichiba is a new japanese restaurant at One Utama Shopping Centre.This is the fresh salmon sashimi.Wow, taste so great.the salmon sashimi is so thick and the salmon look really fresh and nice.It cut to a perfect strength and the salmon sashimi is really fresh.The taste is so original and no weird taste at all.It taste so nice and i want it more.But this is so expensive.I really like this.
