Jap Food Review: Ichiban Izakaya~!*

So, there's a new Jap restaurant called Ichiban Izakaya that opened up in the office neighbourhood a few months back.

*cough cough* Right opposite our office to boot. How strategic.

Ahem. Naturally, yours truly just HAD to go try it. So off we trooped down to Ichiban Izakaya for lunch a few days after its opening.

Yeah this post is late but what the heck, I'm still gonna pimp this place. *evil smile*

Behold Jody and Edmund - the anti-paparazzi colleagues of mine doing an evasion tactic that didn't exactly work out. Pffftt....

We also had Amit with us, our colleague all the way from LA who's down in KL for a few weeks before he headed off to India, and then back to LA again. Phew! What a mad travelling schedule when you think of all the hours.

Meanwhile, yeah..this pic shows it. I was THAT psyched up to try out the food at the new place. Shows how deprived one can be when you have lots of choices when it comes to places to eat around my office, but half of 'em are either too pricey or tastes horrible.

P/s: I'm not being picky here. Try having steak that tasted more like leather instead. Wtf?

As Amit's a vegetarian, he ordered the yasai bento (vegetarian lunchbox) with agedashi tofu, yasai tempura, salad and uh..something that really looked yummy!

Okay, I'm not a HUGE sashimi fan. Yeah, I know. You can go scold me later for not cultivating the taste for it.

When it comes to Japanese food I'm more partial to the normal daily stuff like kitsune soba, yakisoba, omelette rice, Japanese curry....and this uber delicious ebi don~!*

Nicely friend ebi tempura with just the right amount of egg and taste on the rice...mm-mm! 凄っくうまい！

Being the piggy that I am, I also ordered a California Maki just for the heck of it. Woots! It was pretty good actually, but I would recommend their Spider Maki more instead.

Hmm...all in all, Ichiban Izakaya scores pretty well for taste. Plus their prices are quite ok, specially when it's around my office area.

I've definitely been haunting it pretty frequently lately and every time a friend drops by my area for lunch I drag 'em there. Haha.

Now if only I can get them to deal in midnight deliveries too.

Hmmm...