We spent half our day at Lot 10 on the first day of Hari Raya on 5 June 2019. My bon viveur hubs has been wanting to bring us to J’s Gate Dining @ Isetan, Lot 10 to savor the best of authentic Japanese cuisine since their launch early last year but only has the time to do so today. All his staff are on leave and his kitchen will be closed for a few days before they all work on full steam again next week.
J’s Gate Dining is the Japanese food lover’s one-stop haven to enjoy 17 of Japan’s best authentic cuisines featuring superior Japanese ingredients and hospitality. Depending on what your liking and cravings are, you can pick any of the outlets to appease your appetite.
With so many outlets to choose from, we were really spoilt for choices and it was pretty hard to settle on one or two. Finally my gourmand hubs settled for Umai Sushikan (for sushi and tempura) and Osaka Kitchen (for teppanyaki).
Umai Sushikan
Umai means ‘’delicious’’ in Japanese and sushikan is sushi. Only fresh ingredients handpicked by the team from the fish market (air-flown from Japan) are used. The sushi and fish that we had were indeed very fresh and these don’t come cheap either! The bill came up to over RM300 for only 6 dishes that came in small portions!
Below: Grilled premium cod fish flown in from Japan and this piece of cod the size of half my palm (or maybe smaller) costs almost a hundred Ringgit! So expensive that I ate the super sour pickled spring onion 🤣
This is one restaurant that we’ll probably only try once. It’ll cost the hubs an arm and a leg to feed our 3 hungry piranhas (with a bottomless pit) till they’re well fed and satiated at this restaurant. Even with two teppanyaki sets ordered from Osaka Kitchen, the girls were still hungry!
Osaka Kitchen
Osaka Kitchen is known for their popular signature Osaka dishes, including okonomiyaki and yakisoba which features food cooked on an iron griddle in front of diners. The ingredients are also sourced from Japan, including the finest quality wagyu beef.
Osaka Kitchen is situated just opposite Umai Sushikan. For orders above RM200, patrons at Umai Sushikan are allowed to order food from other outlets. Thus, we ordered a beef teppan set and a pork teppan set. Each set comes with a meat, stir-fried pea sprouts, salad, appetizers, grilled avocado with cheese and ice-cream (matcha and yuzu flavors). The bill at Osaka Kitchen is over RM200.
After lunch we segued into The Tokyo Restaurant for their signature cheese cakes. Hubs has been wanting to try the much raved about “best burnt cheesecake in Malaysia” (it seems) available at Tokyo Restaurant and finally he has the time today. And indeed, one spoonful of this super smooth and creamy, oh-so cheesy cake sent me to cake paradise! If not for the price, I would have sent in another order for the Classic Burnt Cheesecake and Matcha Cheesecake.
The original famous Classic Burnt Cheesecake @ RM 20 is Tokyo Kitchen’s signature 6th Avenue Cheesecake. The cake is served with a scoop of silky smooth whipped cream.
The Yuri/Macha Cheesecake @ RM21 is the bomb for matcha lovers. It’s over-the-top delicious, like heaven in my mouth!! Both Sherilyn and I are matcha lovers and couldn’t get enough of it.  The cake is made with artisan 100% stone-ground aromatic macha powder sourced from Niko Neko, the matcha powder specialist.
Gateau Chocolate cake @ RM18 is rich, very chocolaty and surprisingly not cloy and sweet. Very nice!
Classic Tiramisu @ RM18 looks perfectly executed and tastes just as perfect as the other cakes.
The next time the hubs brings us to Lot 10 again, I think I’ll skip the main course and jump right into cakes at Tokyo Restaurant. I’m willing to sacrifice gaining a pound or two for these killer cakes and then go on a diet and workout extra hard for the next one week just to get my cake fix!
The Macha Latte is one of the best I’ve tasted besides the one we tried at Sunbather Coffee recently ~ the milk to macha ratio is spot on, I don’t get the heart palpitation and tea drunkenness that I usually do after scarfing down half a cup of it and it’s not sweet. Love it to the max!
I now know what cake I want for my next birthday  😊 😋 Thank you darling. I know you secretly read my blog posts 😉
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Japanese food for me anytime. I love cheese cake and Japanese cheese cake is one of my favourite.
Hi 5 Rose! 😀