Not a bad new Japanese restaurant on Mid Valley's boulevard.
The menu's unkind to English-speakers, but here's Miyazaki-bred jidori free-range chicken from Japan's southern Nichinan coast. Juicy enough, with a pleasant chew & enjoyable sweetness.
Speaking of sweetness, that's what this papaya's primarily for (RM18 before taxes) ...
... a fun foil for a fresh bowl of prawns, mussels, calamari & clams.
We're fans as well of the chicken, pork & beef kushiyaki (RM3-RM5 per stick).
Try the chicken with wasabi, pork with mentaiko & beef with pickled plum sauce & perilla leaves.
Salmon belly, ox tongue, bacon-wrapped quail eggs & scallops, all nicely done.
Salmon-coated sliced radish, fresh & creamy-tender-crunchy.
Onigiri rice balls, blanketed in bacon & topped with a choice of teriyaki sauce, cheese, yuzu mayo or dried chili (RM6.50 per piece).
Finishing with a final fowl pleasure: Fried chicken gizzard, pretty addictive.
We ordered a big bottle of sake, brought most of it home & were still drinking it a week later.
Nichinan Jidoriya,
Mid Valley Boulevard, Kuala Lumpur.
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