もうにほんのレストラン、because I love Japanese food! わたしはにほんたべものそいちばんすきです！Anyways, this time we did a little travelling instead of the usual KL area. This time it was at Hyatt Saujana, near Subang airport. A hotel with a golf course and of course offering different cuisines under one roof. A plus point though for Kogetsu, that it is located outside of the hotel. It is actually by itself, like a house. Pretty authentic and traditional I should say. I wanted to slide open the what seemed to be wooden doors but with technology nowadays, I figured we could use a little help and pampering. Yes, the door automatically slides open, just like the ones at shopping malls, not very traditional, hmmm. The inside deco somewhat seemed like they have not changed the furniture in there since they opened, or it could be that they wanted that authenticity, who knows. It is definitely not your contemporary restaurant like Rakuzen. Oh another plus point, it’s situated just next to the lake and a view of the green green grass of the golf course. So I suppose you might wanna grab a seat just beside the windows.

It was lunch time, so you might expect sweaty golfers there talking really loud and drinking beer. Having their ひるごはん (lunch) there as well were Japanese housewives and some かいしゃいん　office people. The price of the food here is of your average Japanese restaurant, RM15 to RM50 for main courses. There isn’t much to choose from I’m afraid. Some set lunches, dinners and your common Japanese favourites. Compared to Kampachi, Zipangu and Iketeru, this is probably like a school canteen. I think Oishii or Donatku has even more food. Perhaps they decided to employ a more specialised set of food in their menu or maybe that there isn’t that many patrons to cater to. I had the lunch set with soba, sushi and tempura, priced at RM45. Kind of everything rolled into one, again it came with chawan mushi, pickles, miso soup, salad and fruits. The chawan mushi was horrible, tasteless and texture was way too lumpy for my liking. I ate 3 spoonful and gave that up. The tempura was ordinary. Sushi came 3 tiny cucumber ones, a maguro, a yellowtail and a mackerel. I was hoping for salmon in at least one of them. I was a tad bit disappointed. The cold soba was delicious though, with tempura crumbs. よっかた！そばそおいしいですね！My colleague had his favourite Unagi, (my favourite as well) he complained it to be too small. I couldn’t agree more, it was just a tiny slice, going French perhaps? It better be super tasty then. My clients declared that they weren’t raw fish lovers, thus 2 of them ordered tempura sets, 1 ordered a salmon teriyaki set and 1 ordered a bowl of garlic fried rice. Hmm…not very adventurous people are they, this lot. The salmon was pretty minute as well. They didn’t comment much on the food, so I figured that it was pretty normal, as when you are in the company of 4 girls, you would notice that they like to share what the other is having…when it is NICE. Simple observation skills that I picked up along the way of entertaining. The service was bad, for that few customers in there, the waiters were pretty disorientated. Not filling tea cups, not attentive to customer’s attention and just rude some of them. One of the waitress just came from behind and lifted my unfinished bowl of soba and said ‘are you done’? Could she at least have said ‘excuse me, sir?’ I mean bloody hell, you are in the restaurant business and you are in a hotel where service is suppose to be better. So that set me off quite a bit. I would have loved to tell her off but since I was in the company of my clients I decided otherwise.I guess perhaps dining there at night would be a better experience as probably the lake or the golf course would be lighted up, giving couples a romantic feel to it. I have definitely tasted better Japanese food, although you can’t really taste the difference when it comes to Japanese cuisine. Service as I mentioned earlier is below par. I suppose I will give this a miss in the future.