Hajime Japanese Restaurant 3rd Visit

Filed Under (Food in Kuala Lumpur, Food in Malaysia, Halal, Jalan Damai, Japanese Cuisine) by kuanfoodfetish on 14-07-2009

Tagged Under : avocado, avocado lover, hajime, hotatei, ice cream, jalan damai, japanese, kabayaki, kurogoma, octopus, reservation, restaurant, salmon, sashimi, scallop, seaweed, sushi, unagi

Yes, it’s my 3rd visit to Hajime Japanese Restaurant LOL. This time it’s to celebrate our 3rd anniversary and it was either to Las Carretas for Mexican food (which i’m determined to try out) or Hajime for our usual Japanese cuisine.

But in the last minute we went to Hajime instead because i don’t think my stomach would agree with tortillas and steaks that day. I guess, Mexican can wait. Haha.

The only difference at Hajime this time compared to last year was that there were way more patrons and you would have to make reservation in advance to get a good seat. 2 years ago, we were the only people in the restaurant, last year tables were fairly occupied but we did not need to make reservation but this year the restaurant was full so we had to sit at the sushi bar.

Food wise, it’s still excellent.

Unagi yamaimo steak

It wasn’t bad sitting at the sushi bar at all because you get to observe the sushi masters at work. Seeing the perfect concentration and effort it took to prepare a beautifully crafted sushi dish, the food possibly taste better.

Unagi kabayaki set

I absolutely loved all the food we had that day so it’s difficult to say which is my favorite.

The unagi yamaimo steak was heavenly with a grilled unagi on top of seawood strip garnished with a fried lotus on top. A little difficult to eat with chopsticks because of the long seaweed strip that kept sticking to my lips but other than that it’s a must try. The grill unagi is so, so good and the lotus so crunchy!

Unagi

We almost didn’t place order for this set because we figure that it must be like other common unagi bento set you can get in malls but i’m glad we changed our mind.

The unagi kabayaki set comes with a huge slab of very fresh marinated unagi grilled to perfection. Yummylicious. Plus the salmon sashimi salad on the side was great. Mr. Bf who don’t fancy sashimi almost ate my share!

Salmon salad

You know what i think our theme for that day was unagi and avocado because i just realized that almost everything we ordered has both.

Another scrumptious dish with avocado is the Avocado Lover. The baby octopus wrapped in avocado was awesome. The buttery avocado came in plenty too!

Avacado lover

Hajime has great scallop dishes. Last year we had the cheese with scallop and this year we decided to try another scallop dish called Hotatei Avacado. I think the scallop with avocado in garlic sauce was cooked in the avocado skin itself so the flavor was amazing and very refreshing.

Hotatei avacado