[Food Review] Yaki San

A few weeks ago, I once again tagged along with Food Ink to indulge myself in good food with some new found Food Inker friends and the founders of Food Ink. This time around, we went to Yaki San, located in Asian Avenue, Sunway Pyramid, near the entrance to where you can see the skating rink (I don't remember which zone do you call it hahaha)

Yaki San literally means Mr Grilled in Japanese is one of the first to bring you delicious, affordable and fast servings of yakitori. Yakitori, as most of us already know, is the Japanese version of 'satay', where meat is served in a skewer. It can also be skewered food of any type in general.

As much as we all love yakitori, there was no shop in Malaysia that specialises in selling yakitori and for those who do sell, the price per skewer is usually pretty expensive. However, at Yaki San, rest assured that you can just nom away at the mouth-watering yakitori and you will still walk away with a happy purse. 

Also, Yaki San's special tare sauce is made out of 9 fresh ingredients and brewed for hours to reach the perfect consistency and taste. They ensure their customers that they do not use any MSG / preservatives / artificial seasoning so you can all eat healthily.

Founded by a group of food lovers, they stumbled across similar stalls in Singapore and decided to bring the idea back to Malaysia. Another specialty of Yaki San is instead of using the conventional griller, they found out that the automated griller creates more consistency to the skewers and manage to maintain the juiciness of the meat, which is the machine that they are currently using and they are the only one using the machine as of now.

Yaki San practices self-service where one order their food as well as collect it themselves at the counter. Because of that, many have thought that Yaki San is merely a snack counter where you purchase your skewers and eat on the go. However, as this is their first outlet, they decide to make the Sunway Pyramid outlet their flagship restaurant where there are ample of seats behind the counter. After collecting your food, you can actually take a seat and enjoy your skewers with their free-flow green tea at RM2.

Below are pictures of the skewers, I'll have the list at the end of the pictures but for now, feast your eyes and drool over it, and then, make your way to Yaki San and just eat everything! 

Did I mention that they even have deep fried skewers? My personal favourite would definitely be the deep fried chicken skin. Fatness aside, the crisp and crunch of every bite is definitely worth it!

 Yummy-licious skewers on a plate.

Here's a list of the pricing (My pictures are too scattered and random but fret not, everything in this list is definitely worth a try)

Menu Details:

Every skewer is below RM3, so you can eat till your heart's content.

1.  Chicken Thigh - RM2.20
2. Chicken Ball - RM2.90
3. Chicken with Leek - RM2.90
4. Chicken with Green Pepper - RM2.70
5. Chicken Karaage - RM2.70
6. Chicken Skin - RM1.60
7. Quail Egg - RM2.70
8. Grilled Tofu - RM2.30
9. Shitake Mushroom - RM2.90
10. Pork -  RM3.00
11. Bacon - RM2.30
12. Mini Hash Brown - RM1.80

Combo:

To get a complete meal, you can have the bento set and also top up RM1 for miso soup and RM2 for green tea.

1. 3 Sticks with Rice - RM8.90
2. 4 Sticks with Rice - RM9.90
3. 10 Sticks - RM22.00
4. 15 Sticks - RM32.00

UPDATE (27th August 2015)

PROMOTION! From now all the way up to 6th September, you can have your meal in Yaki San for only RM5, the cheapest in town! (Okaylah, mall lah.. Hehe)

More information on Yaki San

Yaki San

Address: Lot F1 AV 77- 83, 46150 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Contact Number: 012 2871107

Email: yakisanmy@gmail.com

Opening Hours: 

Monday to Sunday, 10.00am – 10.00pm

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[Food Review] Cafe 9 - A Taste of Thai

Hello hello everyone! On a Saturday a couple of week ago, I was invited to a food tasting event by Food Ink, an awesome community made by food lovers, for food lovers. The idea behind this is to bring people together and since restaurants would always serve more than enough food in one event of food tasting, why not bring in more people to enjoy the food instead of wasting the food or stuffing ourselves to the max, right? This way, we would be able to know more people from the community as well, one stone can kill two birds, right? 

We were all invited to a Thai cafe located in SS17, called Cafe 9. I think I can speak for most of us when I say Thailand, especially Bangkok is a shopping heaven and of course, we would never miss out any chance to devour in the cheap and authentic Thai cuisine. 

9 members of a family decided to then bring Thai food to Malaysia, thus, Cafe 9 is established. Fun fact, '9' in Chinese actually means 'forever'. With that being said, the owners of Cafe 9 places customer service as the priority and to ensure continuous effort of great customer service.

A small, cheerful, cosy place for you to enjoy the food and spend time with your loved ones

Time for food! I might not be able to provide comments on all the food that I will be posting up as a lot were served that day, thanks to the generosity of the boss. 

First up, what is Thai food without a good bowl of Tomyum soup? Look at the generous amount of ingredients in that Tomyum soup. Cafe 9 understands how we can't take food as spicy as Thais do, so to suit our Malaysian tongue, they are thoughtful enough to tone down the spicy level of the soup. Despite it still being too spicy for me (I don't take spicy food), I can't stop myself from slurping the soup, yes, it was that good! 

For the Tomyum soup, you have a choice of either choosing the clear base soup, or the red (we had the red one).

Only Prawn          : RM25.90 (R) / RM45.90 (L)

Seafood               : RM25.90 (R) / RM45.90 (L)

Regular will be able to feed 2 to 4 people whereas a large will be enough for 5 to 8 people.

Thai Style Fried Chicken Wings (RM16.90)

     So much ingredients were stuffed into this deboned chicken wings. You can already feel the effort they've put into preparing this dish even before you take a bite off of it. It has a very complex yet unique taste from all the mixture of different ingredients and to be honest, you don't really taste the chicken in the chicken wing but don't get me wrong, it still taste good, uniquely good hehehe.

Fish Cake (RM18.90)

Chicken Fried Rice (RM10)

Dancing Fish

Small serves 4 person (RM44.90)

Large serves about 6 to 8 person (RM49.90)

     The fish looks like it's served as a whole fish but the servers have actually cut the meat to bite size and display it nicely for aesthetic purposes. I like how the fish is fried just right that they manage to maintain the softness of the flesh and yet has that crispy texture to the skin 

Thai Style Claypot Glass Noodle with Prawns (RM25.90)

Thai Otak Otak [Hor Mok] (RM23.90)

     I have always been a fan of Otak Otak so of course I was excited when this is served. What's more unique than it being a Thai Otak Otak is that it's actually served in a coconut, with the coconut flesh still intact! I remember taking spoonful after spoonful of this and enjoying the heavenly taste.

I have forgotten what is this dish called but this dish is lala cooked in a sauce that is usually used to cook crabs. However, as crabs are messy to eat and it's a lot to handle, the owner made some changes to the dish. It tasted great, especially with a bowl of white rice!

Broccoli Served in Signature Egg Sauce (RM15.90)

      Instead of the usual 'Kangkung Belacan', we were served with this lighter tasting brocolli dish as most of the dishes served are really heavy in ingredients. This is just right to cleanse your taste buds.

Thai Prawn Cakes (House Special) – RM18.90

     Last but not least, Cafe 9's special dish, Thai Prawn Cake. The prawn cake is crispy on the outside and moist on the inside. It's so good that I would have been able to finish this entirely on my own, would definitely go back for this!

Cafe 9 "A Taste of Thai"

Address: No 27, Jalan 17/45, 46400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Contact: 03 - 79322899

Opening Hours: 

Wednesday to Monday, 11am - 10pm 

(Closed on Tuesday)    

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Cafe9thai

Food Ink Listing: https://www.foodink.com.my/listing/cafe9

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