Good Old Japanese Food

Penang is a Japanese food heaven. For a small island like Penang, it won't be exaggerating if I say one can always find a Japanese restaurant within 1km radius. Sometimes even a few Japanese restaurants in the same neighbourhood.

Most of the restaurants are owned by locals but there are also quite a number that's own by Japanese. Some Japanese were here as expat, ended up staying here permanently; some are making Penang their second home and started some business.

I went to one of the Japanese owned Japanese restaurant in Penang with my colleague for lunch. Picture (from top left, clock wise), teppanyaki saba, grill eel (unagi), white tuna sushi (my favourite fish, yum yum) and soft shell crab. White tuna is hard to find. Most of the restaurants serve yellow tail fish instead of white tuna but the quality & taste is just different. White tuna is more expensive but worth it :)


As if we can't have enough Japanese food, we went for Kampachi in the evening for more. This time, we has the restaurant's special sushi - Dragon Roll (sushi with tempura prawn & coated with prawn roe) as starter, yosenabe (seafood hot pot) with udon as main course & finish with deep fried ice cream. The ice cream is really ichiban! Perhaps I should go & eat again before I leave...