Call it a day…

I did mention in my post sometime ago that they were going to call it a day…

…here, my favourite in town for Japanese cuisine, for the simple reason that the two guys were finding it difficult to cope with too many eateries on their hands – two in Kuching and four here in Sibu so they would like to close this one down and also the lounge next door. Well, by the time this post gets published, they would have closed their doors already – the other day on Sunday, the 8th of November.

Prior to their closing, to show their appreciation to all their customers, they were offering a special 25% discount to anyone who came to their swan song and it so happened that my young friends asked me out to dinner last Friday night and they were keen on dropping by here. One of them was Lan, my friend from those days way back when on the radio show (he was still a student in school then) – he was known as Ian at the time as he always typed l in small case in his smses and the radio presenters thought that was an I…and he left it at that. With us that night was Christina, my girl’s coursemate, also Lan by virtue of her Chinese name, so let’s say they were LAN1 + LAN2. Gee! This is beginning to look like some kind of Mathematical problem. LOL!!! My girl was home for the weekend but she was not feeling very well and had to give it a miss.

My! My! The place was packed and luckily, the people at one table had just left when we got there so we quickly grabbed it! As expected, since they were going to close down, there were a lot of things that were not available so we just asked the girl what they had and picked from there. We promptly placed our orders and despite the crowd, the food came soon enough – we did not have to wait very long. This was the first to arrive – their special Maguro Maki (RM20.90)…

…that we did not recall ordering and as a matter of fact, we did not! It was supposed to go to another table but we insisted on having that in addition to what we had ordered. We told the girl that we would not mind that being added to our bill and our wish was granted. We were glad that we chose to have this, something that I had never had before as it was very nice especially the bottom half…

…which tasted like some sushi-like thing, lightly deep-fried, with the potato salad and slice of tuna and whatever else on top of it.

I could not get to enjoy their dragon roll one last time as they were out of avocadoes so we asked for their dai dai roll (RM20.90)…

…that I also had before and thought it was nice. However, the one we got that night did not look quite the same and there was way too much wasabi for my liking – I am not a fan of that green stuff so no, I did not quite fancy this.

We had the teriyaki chicken (RM12.90)…

…with rice which we had before…and LAN2 insisted on the chicken curry don (RM14.90)…

…as she is into Japanese curry.

Other than the aforementioned, we also had their soft-shell crab sushi with meat floss…

…and their very nice potato salad…

Good grief!!! We certainly ordered a little too much for just the three of us but thank goodness, we did manage to finish everything, more or less.

Everything, inclusive of drinks, totalled up to RM108.40, exclusive of GST and with the discount, it came up to RM86.20. No, Japanese cuisine sure does not come cheap and since they are closing shop and we wouldn’t know when we would get to have a nice one around here again, I guess it was perfectly all right.

Thank you so much, LAN1 & LAN2, for the delightful treat and above all, I sure enjoyed the company – I do hope the feeling’s mutual. We’ll do this again some place else sometime and my treat the next time around. Shall we?

FOOTNOTE:
If anyone is interested, no, there will not be another Japanese place here. It seems that this western restaurant here has called it a day and closed shop as well and the chef/one of the chefs is taking over the premises to run his own western joint at this new location…but at this point in time, I do not have any information whatsoever as to when he will start his business.