NOT a food blog
The origins of yakitori, embellished slightly. Thanks, FBB, for your cameo appearance.
My companion for the night, Boolicious, is pretty quick at posting, so for the full monty, go check out her blog on Ri- Yakitori. I’m just here to tell you the stuff that she didn’t tell you. Yes, Yang Ariff, that night, we were talking about….men. If you think that food bloggers get together to talk about food, then what do accountants do when they get together? Oh. Okay, sometimes, there’s an exception to the rule. (Have you attended an accountants conference in PWTC? I have, and it’s a bloodbath with calculators.)
The above receptacle kept our sake cold. It can probably keep any type of liquid cold since the inner jar holds icecubes, but at a pricetag of over RM1,000 for one device, I’d keep the iced sirap bandung away and bring this thing out only for special occasions.
I think we shocked the waitstaff with the amount of food we ordered. 12 skewers (chef’s selection) which worked out to be less than RM5 per stick, and that included various parts of chicken yakitori (upper thigh, lower thigh, wings, butt, skin), prawns, wagyu beef, shitake mushrooms and eggplant. It’s a good deal, especially when the cheapest kushiyaki on the menu is RM5. The kampung chicken egg with leek and chilli oil was good, and the taste of the leek adhered well to the creamy, sweet flavour of the egg. I liked the mizuna salad with japanese white radish, flavoured intensely with bonito flakes and shredded nori. We ended our main meal with a bowl of chicken porridge with tororo kelp that melted into the porridge to create a smooth and slightly slimy consistency, and agreed wholeheartedly that it was the best way to end the night. Desserts were limited, and we almost skipped it, but I’m glad we didn’t. The homemade ice cream (green tea and white sesame) with mochi (made a la minute) was delicious.
Yes, I was going to tell you about the men we talked about. Unfortunately, I think the sake’s wiped out my memory. Perhaps that’s the way things are supposed to be when girlfriends get together. Secrets remain secrets. And Bald Eagle, you’d better not tickle me tonight coz I’m not spilling out everything.
Ri-Yakitori
7th Floor, The Gardens Hotel (Robinson’s side: take hotel lifts)
Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra, KL.
Tel: 03-22681188
Open: 5pm to 1am (last order at 11.30pm). Closed Sundays.
Also check out: Masak-Masak, Life of a Lil Notti Monkey and Eat Drink KL.
Acknowledgement: Thanks to my BFF, QwazyMonkey, for teaching me his trade.
Food, for me, is a means to an end and not an end in itself.
Food, for me, represents the love of family, the fellowship of friends, and the community and communality it brings.
keropokman
May 5th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
I would love to try the wagyu yakitori!
bring me there!!!
lotsofcravings
May 5th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
i suppose FBB may have been one of the men you girls were deeply talking about??
fatboybakes
May 5th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
aisehman, so honored, laidat oso can get roped in…
GFAD
May 5th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
So what kind of men topics are we talking abt here? The male horse cake-like confection with plenty of riotous laughter kind? Or the why-can’t-they-put-the-toilet-seat-down kind?
I have a big acrylic bottle with an inner tube that can be frozen. Will that do? We can keep our margaritas cool while we do girly things like try out old clothes and reminisce abt the best and worst of ex-boyfrens.
I finally watched SATC the Movie. I LUUUUUURRRRRVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEE her wardrobe!!!!! And I LUUUURRRRVVVVEEEE Big for doing it up for her. Hubs so proudly proclaimed that he knew exactly what Carrie was giving Jen Hudson before she took out the familiar brown box from under her bed. Becos he gave me that box too mah..
GFAD
May 5th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Oh BTW. I dun geddit la. The chicken and fatboy joke. 🙁
Paprika
May 5th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
T-E-A-S-E!!!
A Lil Fat Monkey
May 5th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
My Ah Pa is super talk about lo!
BFF, good job! See how easy my life is. Now, hussssshhhhh!
A Lil Fat Monkey
May 5th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
wah, got another monkey blogger in town. so kewl!
Lyrical Lemongrass
May 5th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
keropokman: Harlow. The first step is to come to KL ler.
lotsofcravings: kenot tell. got floggers’ honour to maintain here.
fatboybakes: Well, I needed a caricature, and I had slaved over the chicken already, and wasn’t about to draw yet another one, so ta da! You came in handy, tangechi.
GFAD: I think you’ve been holed up in Abu Dhabi for too long. Time to come back to civilisation, and yes, we can do at least one girlfriends session (FBB included, since he’s a tangechi). Refresh my memory, what brown box? As for the joke, I DON’T EXPLAIN JOKES. hmmph.
Paps: Hehehehehehe. You’d have known if you had turned up. Hmmphh.
A Lil Fat Monkey: Yeah, we gotta love him. Thanks…I’m melting from ur praises. And yes, there’s another monkey in town. Hands up all monkeys out there. (How cheesy!)
thule aka Leo
May 6th, 2009 at 12:07 am
this one I can go anytime… hehehehe!!! thanx
A Lil Fat Monkey
May 6th, 2009 at 12:34 am
LL dahlink, it was a brown box with a famous initial starting with L and ends with a V
thenomadGourmand
May 6th, 2009 at 5:55 am
cute cartoons, beautiful pics and amusing comments. Hahaha..ur posts r a sure visit frm me!
backStreetGluttons
May 6th, 2009 at 9:03 am
You got it exactly right where we wished you would, that most loving beautiful part that got wiped out from where it should have remained snuggled up forever…
…now where were we ?
jason
May 6th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Kewl sake device. *faints at the price tag later*
Lyrical Lemongrass
May 6th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
thule aka leo: How come ar? Coz got parking and aircon, izzit? 😛
A Lil Fat Monkey: Aaah. I dunno coz I’ve never received mah. *hinting to Bald Eagle* Hey, BFFs can give too, u know. Chankyew ar.
thenomadGourmand: Thanks! We try to please. ^_^
BSG: Yes, I’d like to think that that lovingly beautiful memory remains as such….thanks for the memories….
jason: Thankfully, they don’t charge for usage of the device. hehe.
HairyBerry
May 6th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
actually hor, the waitstaff shouldn’t be shocked with the 12 skewers la. i mean, what’s 12 sticks of satay for 2, right? haha!
the construction of the sake chiller is so cool! gravity rulez, yo!
GFAD
May 6th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Do we get to dress up to the nines and visit hip night clubs ala SATC? Tangechi can be Stanford… 😀
cumidanciki
May 7th, 2009 at 11:24 am
wa, this place is damn cool.. i wanna go 😉
Lyrical Lemongrass
May 7th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
HairyBerry: There’s more meat on a skewer than on satay leh. But you’re right…that wasn’t as much as what you and I normally order. hahaha.
GFAD: Ooooh, I hope Tangechi reads this! (He/she ought to be flattered abt being included in a girlfriend’s outing)
cumidanciki: Can can…maybe sooner than you think, eh? 😉
Manggy
May 8th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Ooh, yakitori, my favorite Izakaya offering 🙂 At 1000 RM I’d take it out all the time to maximize the cost!
Lyrical Lemongrass
May 8th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
LOL Manggy…you’d be quite a sight, lugging that receptacle everywhere you went!
Argus Meekus
May 12th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Chieh-chieh, may I ask what those pink and green sushi-like things are in the glass bowl, please?
Lyrical Lemongrass
May 12th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Argus Meekus: Mei-Mei, that pink and green sushi like things – merely designs etched on the glass, dear.
Kelvin
September 2nd, 2010 at 11:23 am
Now that Chef Norio is now at his new location at Shuraku in Solaris, there’s pork belly!!!