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Sunday, March 16

Pasta Zanmai @ 1Utama Old Wing - 15/03/08

I was browsing through The Star paper on last Thursday and found this Japanese Restaurant is having some promotion and I shown it to my gym-mates, since we're all so into Japanese food lately. I had planned to go over and try it out as the place features Japanese, Western and Fusion cuisine. The place that I am talking about is called Pasta Zanmai which is located at G210B, Ground Floor Promenade,1 Utama Shopping Centre. U can call over for booking at 03-7728 1210. The place is located next to Yoshion and same row as Carl's Jr. The restaurant's outside is selling these Japanese tit bits. It's some sort like Japan's grocery store or 7-11. hehe~ So u can browse for some tit bits while ur waitin for ur seats. But I think the price for the food sold in Jusco is slightly cheaper though.(Yes, we checked already. hehe~!). They have a few different outlet around Klang Valley which is Sushi Zanmai in Sunway Pyramid & The Gardens, Sushi Zen in Midvalley and Pasta Zanmai in 1Utama.
Ok, back to the story, I went over with Romiko and Joanned told me that she's @ 1U and wanna try that place out. So we decided to go together since 2 of us can't try all of the food over there. So we meet up around 7pm and have dinner together. Once seated we straight away browse through their menu and found that there is alot of interesting food to ordered. So it took us sometime to make up our mind. As we would like to order all the food that they had. haha~!! But reality got the hold of us and we decided to ordered what we like most and never tried before and share together so we can all try the taste of it. Nice~!
The place's environment is really nice and the ambiance was so good. As there were not many customers around so it's still quite and peaceful.:) So the waiter come over and took over order and we waited around less than 10 min for the food to be served. Quite fast if I should say so myself.
Before the main course is served, the waiter come over and gave us this black pepper thingy for us to grind I and we asked him what to do with this (yes, we're kampung ppl, :P) He told us that, the pepper was for the beef noodle. Sweet~!
So here come our two pot of green tea. To our surprise, the pot that gave us was so large. Finally we found out that they might had run out of small tea pots and gave us this large one. But we're the same price for the pot. hehe~ Nice~!
Joanne had ordered the Kani to Avocado Salada. It's crabmeat& avocado salad, with choice of Goma (sesame) Miso (Soyabean Paste) or Non-Oil Aojiso (Perilla) Dressing. The salad and crabmeat was fresh and the dressing is just nice. From the look of Jo's face, I guess it's really nice. haha~ But the portion is quite small though. Well maybe cause it's Joanne who is eating it. haha~!!
Next, Romiko's Gyu Shabu no Gomadare Shitate. To make it simple, it's Blanched Beef Pasta topped with Sesame Sauce. Damn the sauce is so nice. Plus we added the black pepper thingy that we grind in the beginning, the scent of the sesame sauce and beef mixed together is so mouth watering. I like this dish. Definately a repeat order from me. The pasta is just nice, not too hard not too soft.
Next is Z's Sauce Yaki Pasta. It's Prawn and Shrimp Fried Pasta. The portion is large for this dish. U can see there are two big prawns on the top of the dish. The presentation of the dish is good. The taste is alright. It's different from the pasta that I ate before. Hmm...somethin like Seafood Diablo with Japanese Seasonings. haaha~ Nice nice~!
Last but not least my dish, Sirloin Steak. It's what the name apply, Sirloin Steak with Teriyaki Sauce.
I had ordered the set rather than the ala-carte so it comes with a side salad and also a miso soup. Sweet~! I had ordered the sirloin to be prepared medium well but some part of it is still quite raw. So it's very hard for me to finished the last two pieces of it. But overall it's nice. The teriyaki sauce is not too sweet and added to the tender sirloin it's just perfect. (well almost perfect la~!). The set is quite filling as it comes with a bowl of rice too. The portion is just nice, not too small atleast. :)
Before we called it off for the night, we ordered a desert to try. So we decided to ordered the Fruit Parfait. It's Vanilla Ice Cream with assorted fresh fruits (strawberry, peach & kiwi), top with chocolate & hazelnut sauce.Not bad, not bad at all. But the portion was really small. From the menu we tot the portion will be larger. Anyway, it's nice and we finished it up at the end.
So how was the dinner altogether? I will definately return as I wanna try out their Salmon pizza and Gyuniku to Tamanegi no Soup Pasta (Beef & Onion Soup Pasta). So we had forked around RM 140 for the whole dish. Well for me it's OK. But Zen might be slightly better and larger portion. hehe~! (Rating : 3.8 out of 5.0)

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