Massive weight gain @ Jogoya

Despite reading so countless reviews from food blogs, cy and I finally decided to give ourselves a treat and pay a visit to this celebrated restaurant. I was anticipating it so much that I even planned to starve myself for the entire day until dinner. Too bad the plan failed, so much so that I don't even feel really hungry during dinner, let alone ravenous.

Ironically, Jogoya is not from Japan. It's a Japanese Buffet Restaurant from Taiwan, which explains why it's more steered towards Oriental food than Japanese cuisine. The company opened its first flagship store in Malaysia only 2 years back, located in the Relish Floor of Stahill Gallery. Believe me, even before you set foot inside, you would have got a first taste through the alluring aroma of food... We entered around 7 and were told that we have only 2 hours left for dinner-time dinning. So for any of you who plan to go in groups, I suggest you start starving yourself make your way there as early as you can. Dinner starts at 5pm.

The place exudes a rather mysterious ambience... and I thought it was rather dark inside. Food counters were everywhere and tables nearly all around the place. Differing from other Japanese buffets is that over here, you don't need to stand around the food counter to wait for your food to be cooked. There will be samples of food in front of the counters, and you'll just have to place the small clips given into to bowl of food of your choice. Ordered food will then be served to your table after a few minutes. And I must say, they are rather efficient in this.

Seafood are in abundance here. Although I'm not a huge fan of raw food, but the fresh oysters here are simply superb. What's more it's free flow! Another highlight would be the fresh coconuts, which I guess both of us drank nearly 10 altogether. lol

Some of the stuff we ate... in random order.

Stuffed crabs

Buttered prawns + some cheese baked no-idea-what shells

I don't know what you call this in English but in Mandarin it's called "溏心蛋", and sweet pumpkin.

Steamed cod fish

And yes, we had plastic too -_-

Some of the food that I really recommend besides fresh seafood are their tempuras and the tepanyaki.

Unagi

Lobster salad. Mm.. this was good.

This was something special. Cheesed baked prawns in a tomato. Bliss.

Tepanyaki chiken + beef!

Cheese baked escargots

Tempura prawns

What I like about the place is that all the seafood displayed are placed on ice, which makes them look really fresh. And it adds appeal to the food when all the ice exudes white vapor trails. =)

Japanese claypot if I've not mistaken.

Tofu

Ah this I never try. It's also some clay pot thing which take ages to cook.

Shabu-shabu-like thingy on paper! You can chose your won combination of food and soup.

Curry crabs

Tempuras

Fresh mussels

Selection of Sashimi

Bamboo oyster (that's what I call it)

Time for desserts! Frankly, at this point we don't really have much space left for desserts; which was quite a waster cos, how often do you get a free flow of Haagen Dazs?

A close up look on some of the desserts we had.

Cy's bday cake =)

Longan and Suetyi dessert

Red wine

Chinese herbal jelly! I love this because they serve in honey rather than white sugar.

Spot the hidden Mickey

Fruits fruits fruits...

Cy doing the 'scorpion' style -_-" lol

Hm. I guess tat's about all the pics I have. The outcome of it would be...

p/s:

Jogoya
T3, Relish Floor
Starhill Gallery
Kuala Lumpur
Tel No: 03 - 2142 1268
(Halal)

Prices are RM78++ (Lunch - W/day is 11.30 am to 1.40pm, W/end is 11.00 am to 2.00pm), RM68++ (Late Lunch - W/day is 1.40 pm to 4.20pm, W/end is 2 pm to 4.20pm), RM88++ (Dinner - W/day and W/end is 5 pm to 9.30pm) and RM78++ (Supper - W/day and W/end is 9.30pm to 1am). Kids are charged RM10++ or more depending on their individual height.