A new collaborative venture with Fukuoka’s Murasaki Yakitori Kenkyujo, Mont Kiara’s Yakitori Lab makes an irresistible vow on its menu: ‘All prices include the flame of emotion and the smoke of flavour.’
With a Nagasaki-born chef now manning the grill, neck-to-tail skewered chicken cuts prove confidently charred with a succulent bounce.
Pork belly buffs, try the belly cartilage, belly rice cakes on seaweed strips, and boiled egg wrapped in belly.
Yearning for yam? Munch on mukago butter-cooked yam tubercles, evoking the tiniest baby potatoes, and crunchy-juicy, charcoal-grilled mountain yam.
Adventurous poultry lovers will relish rare-grilled chicken liver and raw marinated chicken offal yukhoe, slick and slippery.
Other intriguing orders span steamy garlic stew to crispy-grilled onigiri, paired with pickled ginger chu-hai shochu highballs.