If He Doesn't Want to Take You There, Go There Yourself

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Ah hah! This is another restaurant that my partner does not want to visit on account of the not-so-good-service the last time we were there more than a year ago.

And I would never suggest us going back to a restaurant that he has “banned”. But since Rakuzen@The Starling is nearby, I decided to stop by for lunch.

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Since I was alone, I was seated at this corner. It was all right. Although the seats were so close to each other, luckily for me, there were no other single diners at the time.

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My drink of choice at any Japanese restaurant is always green tea.

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I was there for the set lunch and I decided on this one with yakiniku beef.

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This is what I love about Japanese food. You get rice, protein, vegetables, soup – a little bit of everything and it does fill you up very nicely. I noticed that the rice is regular rice, not the usual sticky Japanese rice.

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The beef was excellent and so was everything else.

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A few days later, I returned for the set with grilled chicken and sashimi.

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The chicken was nice and smokey with a nice charring on the skin.

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And of course I loved the sashimi.

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Then many days later, I came back for another grand lunch, the saba set with sashimi.

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I got two pieces of nicely grilled saba. So good!

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And again, I enjoyed the sashimi.

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This was the most expensive of the three lunch sets I have had so far at RM53.00 (RM56.20 after 6% service tax). I was really stuffed after the meal.

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On all three visits, since I was there early, service was not a problem at all.