Fusion food @ Good Friends Restaurant and Cafe, Subang Jaya

Good Friends Restaurant and Cafe located in Subang Jaya is a fusion eating place serving extensive menu from East to West. Good homely environment to have a decent conversation. They have seafood, chicken, pasta and grilled dishes as well. For coffee lover and beer drinker, this place is suitable for you as well. They have around a dozen options for imported craft beer. The menu were updated frequently and creatively designed fusion food.

Taste:8/10(Good. Chili cream mussels were good and the slight spicy sauce makes the dish taste well. Creamy mushroom tapas is a must order as the mushroom taste good and punched with flavour. Their chicken teriyaki with soba noodles is good just slightly salty. I guess due to the soy sauce. As for the nasi lemak, their sambal were not good enough and can be improved. Grill master taste rather normal and the sauce need to be improved).
Price:4/10 (Near expensive. Chili cream mussels at MYR29.00, creamy mushroom tapas at MYR23.00, premium good nasi at MYR24.00, chicken teriyaki with soba noodles at MYR22.00, grill master at MYR49.00, Naughty Rose latte at MYR13.90, Broken dial beer at MYR28.00, Hawkers Saison at MYR28.00 and Red rice ale at MYR28.00).


Chicken teriyaki with soba noodles.

Chili cream mussels. New Zealand mussels with sweet and spicy cream sauce.

The chili cream mussels have option of either eat it with brown rice or bread.

Free wifi.

Creamy mushroom tapas.

Handmade soba noodles at Sobaya Shige @ Isetan The Japan Store, Kuala Lumpur

What is so special about this Sobaya Shige food kiosk in Isetan The Japan Store? The answer is their soba is handmade by a Japanese chef who make the noodles on the spot. The noodles texture is firm and you can taste the buckwheat flavour. They have 5 menu sets to choose from either soba or udon noodles. The options are duck, ebi tempura, kakiage, beef and kake set.

Taste:8/10(Good. I ordered their duck hot soba set. Delicious noodles which is firm and with weight. You will know the noodles here is quite dense and authentic. I like the vinegared rice sushi as the texture is soft/chewy and using good quality rice. Soup base just nice unlike others which tend to be salty).
Price:5/10(Near expensive. The duck soba set cost MYR33.50. You will get bowl of duck soba noodles with duck meat and meat ball. Rice sushi and jelly fish plus soup).


Duck hot soba set.

Sobaya Shige.

Seats are limited.


Taste quite authentic. The duck meat slightly rubbery.

Rice sushi. Good.

Menu options.

GPS/Coordinate: 3.146462, 101.712433
Address: Lower Ground Floor, Lot 10, 50, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Bukit Bintang, 55100 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur.

Hyotan Japanese Restaurant @ Subang Jaya

Hyotan located further away from the group of Japanese restaurants opposite the Subang Jaya Medical Centre (SJMC). The restaurant has the usual dinner set and sashimi as offered by other restaurant. The pricing in this restaurant are quite reasonable. I have chosen their chirashi sushi don dinner during my visit. Environment wise is good as they have many partition which provide privacy to the diners. If you are a fan of Japanese news and show, they have a television which show it.

Taste:7/10(Moderate. The chirashi don rice was not soft enough and too sourish. Perhaps too much vinegar in the rice. The sashimi on the rice has good variety even with some unagi. They have the best chawanmushi with shrimp and mushroom on the top of chawanmushi. Sashimi provided were not the freshest probably due to I went there on monday but quality still alright).
Price:5/10(Near expensive. The pricing were slightly lower when compared to other Japanese restaurant within the same row. The chirashi sushi don set that I ordered priced at MYR45.00 exclude GST and service charge).



My dinner set of chirashi don with soba noodles. The chirashi rice bowl comes with fresh salmon, unagi, prawn, tamago and other types of fish.

Soba noodles were good.

Complimentary appetizer. Brinjal with soy sauce.

The dinner set comes with salad, chawanmushi, fruits and pickles.

Chawanmushi taste the best here with much ingredient on the top such as shrimp and mushrooms.

Salad which tasted quite normal.

Complimentary green tea ice cream. The ice cream is just so-so.


Environment inside Hyotan Japanese restaurant.

Electronic service system.

If you like to have sake or Japanese liquors, they also have it.

GPS/Coordinate: 3.080911, 101.592819
Address: 63 Jalan SS15/5A, Subang Jaya 47500, Malaysia
Public transport: The nearest train station is Subang Jaya station. 20 minutes walk from the station.

Delicious Japanese dinner at Jyu Raku @ Subang Jaya

It has been a while that I didn't treat myself with good Japanese meal. Since its Tuesday night, I might as well head straight to Subang Jaya SS15 for a good Japanese dinner. I did tried Jyu Raku previously and I do like their quality of their food especially their dinner sets which comes with sushi. Their sushi were good as the portion of fish meat always cover the rice. This makes their sushi similar to the experience you had it in Japan.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. Great sushi with generous portion of sashimi. Oysters were very fresh and tasty. Appetizer given were delicious. Udon noodles was succulent and tasty).
Price:4/10(Near expensive. Twin oyster at MYR24, udon and sushi set at MYR38 and toro sushi at MYR6.00 each. There are 10% service charge and 6% GST).


Very fresh toro tuna.

Kitchen area of Jyu Raku.

Complimentary appetizer.


Delicious fresh oysters. The size was huge. Compliment with lemon, soy sauce and Tabasco sauce. The presentation of the oysters were great.

Fresh and tasty oyster.

My sushi and udon set. The set also comes with salad, fruits and chawanmushi.

Fresh sushi. Consist of toro tuna, amber jack, tamago and salmon.

Udon and salad.

My style of eating sashimi type of sushi. Lots of wasabi.

Chawanmushi contains gingko nut, chicken meat and mushroom.

Soy sauce, chili powder and tooth pick.

GPS/Coordinate: 3.079146, 101.592717
Address: 13, Jalan SS 15/5a, Ss 15, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Public transport: The nearest train station is Subang Jaya station. 20 minutes walk from the station.

Halal tempura soba at Tentei @ Narita Airport Terminal 2

Tentei is located on forth floor of shopping and dining area of the International terminal 2 of Narita Airport. To get there, take the escalator from the departure lounge to the 4th floor and head to the north area. Tentei serving range of good ingredients dipped in light tempura batter. They have variety traditional Japanese dishes such as tempura, tendon, tensoba, sashimi and mixed sets.

Taste:8/10(Good. Tempura were covered in crispy light batter and the soba noodles were good).
Price:7/10(Moderate. The set price range between 850 to 1200 Yen. You will get noodles, rice and miso soup from the set. The portion were reasonable).




Tempura with rice and hot soba set. Comes with pickles.


Prawn tempura rice set. Comes with pickles and grated white radish.

The environment in the restaurant.

Tentei restaurant at fourth floor of Narita Airport Terminal 2.

GPS/Coordinate: 35.772230, 140.392170
Address: 4th Floor, of Narita Airport Terminal 2, Main Building
Hours: 7:30-21:00
Phone: +81 (0)476-34-6133

Dinner at Kampachi @ Plaza 33, Jaya 33 Petaling Jaya

Kampachi is quite a popular name in Japanese dining in Malaysia. Started as a Japanese restaurant in Equatorial Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, the Kampachi brand name now have total of 7 outlets in Malaysia. The Kampachi outlet in Jaya 33 is the latest addition boasting a seating capacity of 198 persons which features a stylish bar with several unique seating that can be rotated for privacy. Having numerous awards including five time Time Out Kuala Lumpur food awards for Japanese restaurant category does catch my attention to try. Looking thru the menu, there were many options for you to choose. The ingredient are said to be flown fresh from Tsukiji market in Tokyo. The popular meal selection here is omakase which is chef selection and their sunday lunch buffet.

Taste:8/10(Delicious. The soba and chirashi don set taste were good. The sashimi provided were fresh and the soba noodles were spongy and with wheat taste. However the rice does not perfect enough to earn the excellent level of this review. There is also lack of sesame seed to be mixed with soba noodles).
Price:3/10(Expensive. The menu selection were quite expensive. The toro sushi were priced at MYR55.00 which in my opinion is outrageous. The recommended omakase pricing were quite high as well at MYR250 and premium for MYR350. I choose the soba and chirashi don set instead as this is seen as the most reasonable option. This menu offers the mixture of rice, noodles, tempura and sashimi at a price of MYR54.00. I ordered Blushing Maiko cocktail as drink at MYR18.00 per glass. Their cocktail seems more reasonable when compared to their tea which is around the same price for a pot. Its a bit disappointed that this restaurant does not serve free green tea).


Soba and chirashi don set. The chirashi don comes with soft and delicious sashimi and prawn tempura. I chosen the cold soba option. Fruit of watermelon, honeydew, grape and pineapple.

Chirashi don.

Cold soba noodles.

Prawn tempura. Crispy and good.

Blushing Maiko cocktail. This cocktail is a mixture of sake nigori, white rum, grenadine and yuzu. This is a sour, slight sweet and with slight citrus flavour of yuzu cocktail.

Free mushroom appetizer with tomato.

Utensil used for the dinner.

The Japanese chef was busy preparing meals for their customers.

Environment inside Kampachi restaurant at Plaza 33 outlet.

Entrance to the restaurant.

Kampachi of Equatorial.

GPS/Coordinate: 3.109848, 101.6380943.10988, 101.63787
Address: Kampachi, P1-02, First Floor, Plaza 33, Jalan Kemajuan, Seksyen 13, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
Public transport: Asia Jaya LRT station (Gombak - Kelana Jaya line).