Shin Japanese Bar @ Sunway Velocity

After doing a bit of shopping in Sunway Velocity, we decided to stop by Shin Japanese Bar @ Sunway Velocity for lunch before heading home.

The restaurant offers all the comforts of Japanese food with a pretty extensive menu offering all sorts of donburi, hamburg rice, tempura, kushiyaki, teppanyaki and Japanese curry rice to name a few.

Walking in, your eyes will be immediately drawn to the teppanyaki station at the entrance and you can pretty guess that teppanyaki is probably one of their specialities here.  The other is hamburg rice judging from the many photos of the dish on Google reviews.

Up first was my son's choice of Teppanyaki Garlic Fried Rice with Sizzling Black Pepper Beef @ RM38. Looking at the sizzling plate, there seems to be more onions than beef (what to do, beef is expensive these days) together with some green bell peppers and spring onions.  He was expecting a bit more for RM38.

Having tasted a piece, I thought the overall taste was decent enough as the black pepper beef was not overcooked though it fell a little bit short for my son...not peppery enough.  I've to agree that we it can probably do with a little bit more black pepper for a more robust flavour.

The teppanyaki garlic fried rice, as the name implies, was cooked on the teppan (iron plate) itself and it was cooked with egg bits, garlic and chopped spring onions and finally topped with some corn kernels.  At least the fried rice was cooked well and it had good flavours.

Seeing that the vast majority of customers chose to try their hamburg rice (or simply put, hamburger with rice) @ RM28.90 (for beef and RM25.90 for the pork version) from Google photos, I was tempted to order it myself but I'm always weary of the beef patty being too beefy (which is usually the case at places where steaks is not their speciality).  The other factor that made me decide otherwise was that I was fortunate enough to watch videos of it being served...they first inject something into the patty with a syringe (sauce, perhaps?) and then grate lots of cheese over it (from photos it looked like omelette at the bottom)! O_o  Oh no, that swayed my decision straight away.

But it's heaven for cheese lovers...and you can also choose the Nihonthai Fire on the Cheese @ RM19.80 (a Thai version with either red or green curry besides Japanese curry)...and you can top up with even more cheese for RM12.90 and get an additional 2 sides of either chawanmushi, katsuobushi okra, ko ebi karaage or potato sarada (salad).

So I went with my one of my favourites, the Grilled Unagi Don @ RM32 a la carte (promo price of RM28.90 as part of their Super Value Lunch) on a bed of Japanese omelette and a sprinkling of shredded nori.

I actually thought the portion size of the grilled unagi was very generous based on the price.  The quality of the unagi was pretty good too as it was nice and tender, glazed with a slightly sweet teriyaki sauce on top.

The Japanese omelette underneath was also cooked very well...not over or under but with just the right fluffy texture which was a pleasure to eat.

What's even better is that you can just add RM3.90 to top up your meal with 3 side dishes of edamame, miso soup and watermelon.  I was feeling a bit hungry, so I decided to get the add-on.

My Personal Opinion

It was a nice lunch and the food was undoubtedly decent enough from the two dishes we had the chance of trying that day.  I wouldn't mind returning again to try other dishes.

Certainly a nice addition to my list of teppanyaki places when I'm looking for one of my favourite ways of cooking a meal in a Japanese restaurant! ;)

Shin Japanese Bar

V03-01-01 Sunway Velocity

Lingkaran Sunway Velocity

Cheras

55100 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: 012-467 8388