KY eats – Jogoya Japanese Buffet at StarHill, KL
Sheryl told me about the new Jogoya Japanese Buffet Restaurant that has recently just opened their latest branch in Starhill, KL. Since I was feeling really hungry that very day, I convinced her to dine there with me after reading several articles written about it from local newspaper sites such as this one from The Star.
located at the posh Starhill Gallery
Jogoya is actually a Taiwan based company, having a number of branches in it’s country of origin, a very successful and recognisable name there. Stepping in their the newest establishment brought a sense of awe. The place is simply huge, with capacity of over 550 guests, and the buffet selection at least 4-5 times bigger than Avanti at Sunway Resorts.
huge selection of choices
There are numerous buffet lines, the Japanese sushi and sashimi station, Chinese dishes, dim sum and seafood soup, western seafood, indian delicacies, tepanyakki and stir fry seafood, juice and drinks, and desserts. There is enough selection for every picky eater. If suan only try each item a spoonful, you can probably still feed her 5 times over before repeating with the first item, FA, maybe 10 times.
start off with some japanese seafood, sashimi and tempura
I started out with some awesome sashimi including sake(salmon), amaebi (sweet shrimp), and surf clam, worked my way through some raw oysters and oyster soup, then came king crab soup, some fried clams, stuffed crab with shrimp and butter, and salmon roe handroll. Not to be outdone, tried some french style fried butter prawn, shrimp tempura, fried pomphret fish, and even tomyam soup. By the third hour or so, I was feeling pretty stuffed, ended the meal with some “gwai leng gou” as desserts and a cup of cappucino to wash away the taste of watermelon, guava, and honeydew juice that I had.
fried seafood and some awesome soup
Overall it was a very good dining experience. While the price (from RM 68++ to RM 88++ depending on time) might be slightly towards the higher end. The selection and quality of food more than make up for it. In fact, I went there again with my mom and brother a week later when they were at KL.
dessert and drinks
Jagoya is located at 3rd floor, StarHill Gallery. Business hour is from 11am to 2am, call them at 03-2142 1268 if you want to book a table or something.. You are also welcome to spend me a meal there, hehe.
GPS: 3.147790, 101.713588
Update 16/2/2006: A noted difference at Jogoya is the availability of freshly made to order dishes. You are given 3 clips with your table number to be dropped the little bowl labelling the dish offered at the buffet line. Few minutes later the server will return your clip with the freshly prepared dish you “ordered”. You never run out of clips.
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another japanese restaurant b open at mount kiara…..
sushi,
Plenty of jap restaurant there already too.
This is the best buffet i’ve never tried.I love buffet especialy japanese food..Eemmm…is worth to have a try
wht time start the buffer dinner n i person who much ar? bcos 11/11 is my 1st anniversay manyb i b go eat! hehee~
what the fucking shit service!
last monday i called to make a reservation for supper buffet, but the person told me that can just walk in, but saturday night we went to the place, they said all buffet are fully booked!! what the hell!!
and the receptionist ask us come back at 10pm to queue, what the fuck!! they attitude are bad! no apologize at all!!
i wan to ask…when got discount and now is wat price?
kent,
I am not aware of any current discounts.
Has anybody been to Jogoya recently coz i will be going soon this sunday. Hope they still maintain the standard of their food quality and freshness coz this is the 1st time i will be going with my family. It seems no promotion at the moment. So they charge 88 ++ per person for dinner. cheers
went to the restaurant with 2 of my girl friend on 4th march..very disapointed.all of us become food poisoning after few hours.The food is not fresh , all the steam food is cold when it get to the table.
Pls take note of these.
i received a spam on my HP saying jogoya is giving away 50% discount on standard chartered credit card.
been try to call them, but engaged..
well, i was planing to there this few days…but after I read all this comment.I think I better not to go there.I don’t want to end up in the hospital…..
I can say Jogoya food has no problem.
There’s no unclean food there.
The food poisoning cause by unclean food will never happen inside Jogoya.
Anonymous,
Sorry to say, Jogoya has a problem with the safety of food handling!
1. Place is not clean.
2. All food handlers and workers are mostly NOT local. You sure they are trained and understand Safe Food Handling?
3. Raw food (meant for customers to cook) are left on food counters for a long time, which will lead to higher risks of bacterial growth.
4. Cooked food is left out too long and the right Food Storage temperature is not kept.
5. There is at least one rat in the restaurant, coz I saw only ONE last night.
…need more?
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We, a party of thirty people and had buffet lunch in Jogoya Japanese Restaurant and twelve people fell seriously ill of food poisoning and one had to be hospitalized. I strongly believe that this restaurant needs a thorough hyginene inspection by the authorities. We launched a complaint and our case was handled by a few unprofessional staff of the restaurant. We did not have any motive of compensation but to issue us a good explanation of food posioning. They even gave use silly reasons like SHOULD NOT TAKE ICE-CREAM AFTER RAW SEA FOOD! Why do they serve ice-cream then? Finally a lady staff called up to say sorry verbally! This is so called a 5-star Japanese Buffet Restaurant! Spit on them! We gave zero-star and never again go to this restaurant!
hmm…
i have booked sits for two tomorrow nite at JOGOYA… hopefully the food is good and worth it…
Went to jogoya at the 22nd dec and i got to say it is very dissapointing .
These are the reason
1) Replenishment : i think that they are very stingy with their food replenishment example Salmon sashimi , Tempura prawns , Oyster
2)The clips system is slow like shit , 1 handroll took like around 20 minutes and some foods are only for the vips also the serving are patheticly small example : oyster egg and unagi .
3) they should change the whole dessert and ice cream to self service instead of asking them to take for us .
I was actually shock of the number of people , its a weekday and it was like 70% full of people . I duno if its the promotion or its the “tong zhi ” festival on that day .
I definately would not recomend people to go there
Ah Hon,
Yah i think their quality has taken a dip these days, I haven’t been there for a long time now.
I been there before, food so so only! Nothing much special compare with others buffet style…
I have go dec09 to feb10(around 4 time), but 4 time foods 90% is the same, NOTHING SPECIAL. And, when having the dinner, childen so noisy at front door, like “PASAR MALAM”….. So Bad, is this is 5 star japanese buffet????
Ho,
oh well..
karen,
yah it’s been pretty average these days.