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Another Japanese restaurant in VivaCity, Mittsu-Hoiru.

Normally you’ll see conveyor belt with plates of sushi. Here, Sushi Boat System is used to move the sushi around. It’s a bit challenging to pick up the sushi from the boat. I guess it’s because of the tray they used.

I ordered Cha Shoba(RM11.50), green tea chill soba noodle and took a sushi from the boat. I have no idea what fish meat was that hehe… The soba noodle wasn’t filling, too little for me, so I just took one sushi from the boat that fancied me and didn’t take note of the price 😛 Overall, all the food I had wasn’t bad. Just one problem, the rice of the sushi crumbled… Duh…

These were ordered by my dining companions:

Left: Kaisen Nitsuke Don (RM14.50), mixed seafood rice.
Right: Salmon Don (RM16.50), grilled salmon fish rice.
The rice dish came with a bowl of miso soup.

There’s mixed review about this place by others. For me, it looked and tasted authentic. Prices are reasonable. However, it didn’t give me the urge of wanting to go back. I’ll just rate it as above average.

Want some Sundanese cuisine? You can get it from Bumbu Cabe at iCom Square (Ground Floor, Parcel B128 & B129, Block B, Icom Square, Jalan Pending, 93450 Kuching) or Cityone. The place is always packed! Some said the food are expensive, some said it’s reasonable. For me, I would agree with the latter. A reminder though, the food is consider spicy to quite a lot of people.

Left: The sambal set that will be given to you once you’re seated.

Right: Rice served in stainless steel pot. We ordered white rice. There’s also other type of rice to order.

After you’re seated, go to the area where food are displayed. Tell the staff your table number and order the food there. What you see here is the amount of food for one portion. For each, we only ordered one portion. The price ranges around RM6/portion. They have a wide variety of vegetables to meat for you to choose.

We had potato strips, chicken, and eggplant with sambal. All were delicious. We were stuffed! Don’t underestimate the portion, it looked small but took the 3 of us (average eaters) quite a fair bit of effort to finish them all.

All these including four drinks for three pax was less than RM50.

One more thing, I recently found out that the price at CityOne branch is higher even though they are serving the same thing.

So… I was invited to Nando’s soft opening but I couldn’t make it, didn’t get the chance to try all those food there. Oh well… Will just have to spend my own money to eat there hahaha… This happened 2 months back! Really lag in updating.

Yes! Nando’s is finally here in Kuching! Lots of people rejoiced! Located in VivaCity. Let’s see… I’ve tried Nando’s in Australia, Singapore, UK, and Malaysia. They are slightly different in the way they prepare their chicken and the type of chicken they used. However, taste is still the same.

I’m glad that Nando’s in Kuching does maintain the quality but we’ll see how long it will last with the supposed quality.

Another long-awaited franchise is now available in Kuching, Tony Roma’s. Located in VivaCity. It’s my first time dining in Tony Roma’s. Never dine in other branches before.

Price is rather high but you don’t have to spend so much by ordering too much, the trick is to share to split the cost. Portion is big for the salad and mains. If you’re small or average eater, order a salad and a main or a main to share should be good enough. As for drinks, just order water (RM0.90/glass).

Left: Bread is FOC. As long that you dine there, you get this (I think…). The bread was soft. Make sure you spread the herb butter that came with it while it’s still warm to get the best out of it.

Right: TR’s Chocolate Avalanche (RM15.79), molten chocolate cake overflowing with vanilla ice cream, hot fudge and Oreo crumbles. Too sweet for me. It’s not molten chocolate cake at all… No chocolate oozing out… More like chocolate brownie.

Fillet Medallion and Bountiful Beef Ribs (RM88.93). The fillet medallion was awesome! We ordered it medium well. Yum! The rib was ok but not great likely due to some errors in their preparations.

By the way, they have their Tony Roma’s special sauces to go with your meat. There are Carolina Honeys, Blue Ridge Smokies, Red Hots, and Original BBQ Sauce. I like Red Hots and Carolina Honeys.

All priced quoted are inclusive of GST. You’ll be charged 10% service charge as well.

This meal I had was not long after its opening, another belated post :p I was supposed to go for the food tasting but sadly due to work commitment, I had to pass.

Overall, I would rate it above average due to the dessert we had and the rib were not really up to expectations. Hopefully they have improved now.