DON'T BOTHER: Kiku Zakura @ Great Eastern Mall Ampang

SG foodie's favourite malls remain One Utama and Mid Valley for their variety and choices. But she decided to take a drive with the family to Ampang to check out Great Eastern Mall one weekend. Situated just a short distance from embassy row, it wasn't a difficult place to find.This is a relatively small mall with a Cold Storage supermarket there and it was rather deserted for a mall on a Saturday evening but perhaps its target is the office crowd in the Great Eastern Insurance building attached to it.

Anyway since it was dinnertime when SG foodie arrived, it was decided that with the two Japanese choices there and one being a BBQ restaurant which would leave clothes smelling of food, SG foodie went with Kiku Zakura where SG foodie had heard some good comments about. Seated in a booth, orders were taken. Price range here is about RM40-50 per person so certain expectations are there.


But when the food arrived.... OMG!!

Kiku Zakura's pathetic soup!

VS Rakuzen's Salmon Head soup

 

SG foodie's soup which cost RM23++ contained like 4 miserable pieces of snowpeas, 3 cubes of tofu and a 2 slices of carrots AND it wasn't even served on a burner! Taste was not there either. SEE THE PHOTOS FOR YOURSELF! SG foodie just recently had a Salmon Head soup at Rakuzen that was served on a portable stove that kept the soup hot with a WHOLE salmon head and loads of vegetables, mushrooms, tofu at the price of RM22++!!!

The bento set ordered was about RM45 very expensive for the contents AND it wasn't very tasty; AND it doesn't come with a bowl of rice like at most other restaurant. For RM45, you're better off ordering a bento set at Kampachi Equatorial Hotel or Pavilion, where you're assured of quality sashimi, sushi and other delicious contents. Service at Kiku Zakura wasn't superb either. Seriously not worth the visit. SG foodie was truly disappointed.

SG foodie understands now why the restaurant wasn't very crowded on a weekend though the restaurant has purportedly been at the mall for 10 years now.