For Kampachi dinner buffet, see
here.
Konnichiwa! Japanese cuisine is nothing new to Penang as the business is blooming rapidly these few years in Penang. You can see a lot of Japanese restaurants down the streets and sometimes, you have no idea which one to choose. One of the important things about Japanese food is freshness and hygienic. The food must be fresh because most of them are raw food and cleanliness is very important too. Yesterday, I had my lunch at Kampachi, located inside Equatorial Hotel, Penang. This restaurant is quite famous because whenever I mentioned Kampachi, everyone is going crazy and crazily praising how nice is the food.
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| Kampachi, Equatorial Hotel, Penang |
I had the chance to try them out myself and here is my review. Besides, if you wish to park inside the hotel's car park, the parking fee is RM5 per entry at the multi-story car park BUT if you dine in any restaurants in the hotel, you can claim the RM5 parking fee from the respective restaurant. The claim is not in term of cash but discount another RM5 from your bill.
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| Entrance to Kampachi |
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| Table setting |
The restaurant is located at the Ground Floor of the hotel. The restaurant is divided into 2 parts, the main part is where most of the food is and the other part, Sake Bar, is the place full of desserts, wines and beers. Let me start with the appetizers.
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| Appetizers |
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| Sushi Bar |
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| Tamago, Unagi, Beancurd Skin, Smoked Salmon and fish skin |
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| Salmon and etc |
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| Sashimi |
Interesting about Japanese cuisine is the appetizers. When I first walked in, I am looking for salad bar but in the end, I found out the 4 dishes above which include octopus are actually the Japanese appetizers. I believed this is Japanase-style of appetizers.
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Left: Japanese-style fried vegetable
Right: Fried rice (sushi rice) |
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Left: Beef
Right: Teriyaki Chicken |
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Left: Mussel
Right: Teriyaki fish |
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| Fried items |
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Left: Tempura
Middle, Right: Fried vegetables |
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| Variety of sauces |
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Left: Chicken Soup
Right: Beef soup |
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Left: Chicken Soup
Right: Beef soup |
Beside the appetizers, you can find a variety of "main course" at the other room. For the chicken soup and beef soup, I can't really remember their real name but the chef will ask if you would like add an egg into the soup before serve. Just a raw egg in the bowl and mix with soup. My friend said it is nice but I didn't try it because the egg is still raw.
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| Left: Salmon Right: Fish |
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| Left: Vegetable Right: Beef |
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Left: BBQ Chicken
Right: Japanese Pizza |
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| Seafood soup |
The BBQ chicken is nice. Normally, the chicken is served with fats and oil but this one is nice. Surprisingly, the seafood soup is rather clear. Sometimes, when you had seafood soup especially with scallops the soup is dirty because they might not clean the shell thoroughly. This one, clean!
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| Cawan mushi |
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| Udon and soba |
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| Ingredients for udon and soba |
Besides, you get to cook your own soba or udon. There are 2 pots of hot water beside the udon and soba for you cook the noodles.
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| Jelly |
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| Pudding |
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| Pancakes |
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| Cake |
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| Desserts |
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| Cheese cake and cream puff |
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Ais kacang
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| From left; Coffee, yam, green tea, sweet corn, strawberry and chocolate ripper |
Basically, all the pictures above are the food available at Kampachi but I think I left out a few because at the sushi bar, the chef does not allow me to take pictures. If you ask me, I would say this is rather an authentic kind of Japanese cuisines. The taste is good and the food is not very oily. But, I think improvement can be made on food variety. I think maybe is due to the size of the restaurant, so the food variety is less. But of course, they still serve a lot of food. The different between lunch and dinner is (if I'm not mistaken) I think there are oysters and lobsters during dinner time. But, to confirm, please call Kampachi to ask.
Update 16 Dec 2012:
Venue
Kampachi, Equatorial Hotel, Penang (Ground Floor)
(Lunch Buffet)
Price
Saturday and Sunday Buffet Lunch
Time: 11.30AM - 2.30PM
Price: RM68++ Adult, RM37++ Children
Saturday Buffet Dinner
Time: 6.30PM - 10.00PM
Price: RM92++ Adult, RM49++ Children
Service charge: 10%
Government tax: 6%
Reservation
04-632 7000
P/S: This is my birthday lunch and thanks for treating me!
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