June 12, Saturday

Just another regular update and it pleases me that there is little to write though i am indeed stiff bored. Anyway, thank you KT for the one-day mall-loiter accompaniment days ago; it was enjoyable and enlightening and i sincerely appreciate it. xD

So i think the occassion i would like to share here would be another eating experience, this time @ Sushi Zanmai-1Utama, a kaiten style sushi restaurant. Yeap, sushi again... i kinda get hook on sushi nowadays. Well, if i were to thank someone for getting me into this, it would have begin from all the way back in secondary school, thanks to a fella called WN that hook me up with sushi. But lets leave that for another time... haha. Anyway, yeah, had tasted Sushi Tei previously and now i managed to try out Sushi Zanmai @ 1Utama unplanned.

Sushi Zanmai is always packed-Damn it. However this time, i queued up with my friend and managed to be seated. The orders took some time to arrive and we ordered:

> Soft Shell Crab Maki     - 1 plate (4 pieces)                                 rm 6.8  
> Sake Zanmai               - 1 plate (variety Salmon Nigirisushi)          rm 19.8
> Toro                          - 1 plate (5 piece Tuna Belly)                  rm 40.0

It was unplanned- so i did not bother to sit next to the sushi-belt; next time maybe. Well the menu of the restaurant was almost identical to Sushi-Tei, i wonder if they are of the same company. Anyway, the soft shell crab Maki was quite salty and the sushi rice were quite loose. Other Maki-typed sushi rice were loosely packed too. A loosely packed sushi rice is a disaster, and definitely not a good sushi. The salmon sushi were all very succulent and they have my favorite smoked salmon too! The Toro was very succulent too, however the big variation in size as compared to the menu really threw me off my chair. What a rip-off... though the menu do state that the illustration may vary from the real food.

Toro - illustration in menu

Toro - real size (i should have place a chopstick there just for comparison... anyway its about 2.5 cm length)

Sake Zanmai - Yes, i took this pic with my mobile and you have to excuse me cause my mobile is not 8 MP or higher camera phone. Anyway, the real food kinda looks the same and as you can see, the Maki rice was loosely packed.

Well the price is quite normal for a place as such, the food was only so-so and the service, sigh...

# long queue
# late order arrival
# blur workers - wrong orders, took my plate of Toro when i was still trying to eat the cucumber strips
# late bills - have to call 3 times for my bill to arrive, even my food arrives faster...

The thing i like about Sushi Zanmai is that they have this sweet sauce which i only found in sushi Tei and Sushi King so far. Well the down side is definitely the poorly compacted sushi rice, services, non-free green tea and non-free tissues.

All together : +tea + tissue + tax = rm 80.   X.X

Ah well, so much for a quick bite , i might revisit Sushi Zanmai again next time for another try, hopefully better experience.

p/s : I missed Sushi King especially for its dragonball...oops... i mean goldenball xD