When: August 28, 2012
Where: Inagiku at Makati Shangri-La Hotel
What: Private Teppanyaki Dinner. Set Menu
Price: Php 8,500.00 per person
Our company is hosting private dinners for very valued clients and their families until next month. I was lucky enough to have had the chance to dine with one of these very special clients and her family and at a very classy restaurant!
Inagiku is a very pricey Japanese restaurant located at the 2nd floor of Makati Shangri-La Hotel.
Have a look at my table setting.
Here’s the Drink Menu made specially for our clients.
I wasn’t able to try any of the specialty drinks since I’m preggy and I can’t drink any drinks with liquor in it. I opted for the Pineapple Chilled Juice and it was nothing special. Well, they said the white and red wine were great. So, it was just me who didn’t enjoy my drink.
Here’s our Set Menu for the night and it did look yummy the first time I read it.
Let’s start with our appetizer. The meat under the green beans was smoked duck. Under that was like Egg Jelly with Tofu on it. On the little saucer was Mushroom in a Jelly. The fried fish with crab roe on top sits beside the beans. I liked the smoked duck the best. The others were just so-so for my taste.
Now, the Green Salad was just that, Green Salad. The whole bowl was full of chopped greens. Though the crunchy stuff on top of it made the texture different and the dressing tasted yummy.
Before the main course was served, the Teppan Chef started his Teppan cooking. By the way, this was how the room looked while it was still unused.
The Teppan Chef made some entertaining moves when he cooked the fried rice with beef. He shaped the fried rice into a heart, and he made the heart beat with his pan. He also made some sounds using the seasonings. But that was it, after that he just kept on cooking the other food. I had a chance to dine at a Teppan Resto before (but it’s closed already), and the Chef there was much entertaining. Well anyway, the smell of the butter and the oil mixed with the fried rice made the whole room smells good.
After the Rice, we were served our Miso Soup. I just had a taste of it, the smell’s very strong. I can’t take it.
Here comes one of the best parts! The Seafood Plate. Panfried Salmon, Tiger Prawn and Scallops. The Teppan Chef flamed the prawn and the salmon to have that smoky taste. The Salmon’s very fresh, it doesn’t have that fishy taste. The Scallops’ yummy also! The size is not so big, not so small. Tender and juicy. And last but not the least, the Tiger Prawn tasted so good. It’s just too bad that it’s only 1 piece. Bitin much!
Oh, I forgot to mention that they made this special seafood sauce also.
- Scallops
And now we’ve come to the Super Main Course. The US Kobe Beef. I’m not much of a fan of beef, but I must say, this Kobe Beef really tasted differently. We asked the Chef to cook it Medium Well, but we all thought he overcooked it. Some bites were just right, some were chewy. But since it’s US KOBE BEEF. We couldn’t complain more, right?
After that very satisfying beef meal, comes our dessert. It was supposed to be a choice between Fruit in Season Jelly, Coffee Jelly and Ice Cream. But the server forgot to ask our personal choices, he served the Fruit Jelly for all of us. We complained that we wanted a different dessert. So he willingly obliged and asked us our personal choices. I wanted to try the Green Tea Ice Cream and the Coffee Jelly, but I can’t. So for dessert, I had Fruit in Season Jelly and the Red Bean Ice Cream.
The Fruit in Season Jelly is nothing special. The watermelon even had some seeds. The jelly didn’t taste anything.
The Red Bean Ice Cream however tasted good. The Ice Cream was Vanilla Flavored, mixed with some red beans., which you almost couldn’t taste already.
Overall, the Inagiku experience was good. The whole menu would make you really full, especially if you will consume the whole bowl of fried rice! The Seafood Plate and the Beef would make up for the whole set. The server and the Chef made sure that we got what we need. The service was really great. Come to think it, it should be as we are dining inside a very pricey Japanese restaurant in a 5star hotel. If you’ll ask me though if I would be willing to pay Php 8,500.00 for that meal, I definitely would not think twice, I would not pay that much. I just don’t think spending that much money for a meal is worth it. But if you have the means and the moolah to do so, why not?
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