The month of May and June have always been special days for all
mothers and fathers alike as we celebrate our love for our mothers and fathers.
This year, I’ve been blessed to be able to spend more time with both my parents
on those respective days. But to make things sweeter, I entered a contest
organised by
KetchUp a few months back, to be in the running to dine at one
of the restaurants partnered up with
KetchUp. One of the restaurants is
Nara Kitchen
& Co, which I fell in love with since I stepped into the place when they
first opened!
As it turned out, I won the contest (yay!) and the team
KetchUp have selected
Nara Kitchen
& Co for me to dine in with my parents! I was pretty chuffed that we’ll
be dining at such a lovely place with really gooooooood yummy food, and I have
my parents to share the dining experience with. Of course, on top of it, I get
to spend time with my food bloggers parents. If you haven’t checked out their
blog yet, you should do so now. My mom blogs at
FollowMeToEatLa and
dad blogs at
BestRestaurantToEat, show them some love!
It was indeed an amazing dining experience at
Nara Kitchen
& Co, the food was healthy and wholesome (just as how I remember it when
I first visited). This time around Caroline, the owner of
Nara Kitchen
& Co was there too, and she recommended a few of her delicious,
favourite food to us too! But really, it wasn’t just the food that made the
experience a memorable one but kudos to
KetchUp’s team for planning a surprise during the lunch! I
managed to surprise my parents with flowers and chocolates. Even Daddy got a
bouquet of flowers and chocolates too!
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If you’re curious on the food we had, I took some lovely pictures of the food
served to us. Most of them were recommended by Ms Caroline of
Nara Kitchen
& Co, so you can be sure that they are delicious and probably is one of
the best sellers of the restaurant.
Big Belly | RM 26.00
Daddy was deceived by the word
belly in the dish and was
expecting pork belly salad. Instead, this gorgeous mix of
white organic
quinoa, fresh mint, roasted beets, orange wedges, kyuri (a Japanese
cucumber) paired with
homemade hummus and then topped with
miso vinaigrette.
Brilliant Breakfast Pudding | RM
17.00
When this arrived, the inner child in me was going “
This is
such a cute food, I just want to dig right in to it!”. I managed to get a
quick photograph of it before I tried this cutesy food. It’s actually a
rice
pudding made with
fresh vanilla milk, then topped with
poached
apricots, toasted almonds, fresh mangos, red orange zest and
edible flowers!
Soup of The Day | RM 18.00
This was the
Soup of The Day, which is
actually a
creamy broccoli soup with a truffle and
cream drizzle.
There is a little added surprise in the soup too because there were slices
of sausages in our soup too! The soup of the day changes everyday, so do ask on
the daily specials before you place your order. If it happens to be broccoli,
you should give it a try because I love it to bits. I think this is something
everyone should try at least once. It’s unique to have it cooked the creamy soup
style.
Nara Donburi | RM 36.00
THIS, right here… is why I fell in love with
Nara
Kitchen & Co. The egg in the
Nara Donburi is the
63
degrees egg cooked to perfection and topped with
ikura (salmon’s
roe), served with
torched salmon, miso zucchini with
truffle mayo
shredded seaweed on top of sticky Japanese rice. The rice has an
accompanying sauce, which can be quite overwhelming when there is too much of
it. So be sure, to let the waiter know you’ll prefer less sauce. You can always
ask for more sauce to add on if it’s insufficient.
Pink Lobster Salmon Pasta | RM
61.00
I remember coming across a picture of this on
Nara Kitchen
& Co’s Instagram page (
@NaraWithLove) and told myself that I have to give this a try
one day! This is pasta is served with
grilled lobster meat alongside
with
salmon chunks cooked in
creamy tomato sauce topped
with
sundried tomato, parmesan and
cilantro. The lobster is
oh-la-la fresh, and juicy to chew one. Just can’t get enough of it. The
portion of the mains are quite huge as you can see above, so best to share with
friends! Not to mention, that they are really very generous with their
servings!
Seared Duck with Squid Ink Pasta | RM
49.00
When I first saw the name of dish on the menu, I actually
thought it was a squid ink sauce paste. However, it arrived in a creamy
primavera sauce and then I realised that in the description, it is stated
that it’s a cream sauce pasta! It’s just that the pasta used is the squid ink
linguine. So the pasta is served with seared duck breast in five spices,
shimeji mushrooms, cherry tomato and topped with alfalfa sprouts. This dish
is quite creamy on its own, so if you were to order, just one cream sauce based
for the main dish would be sufficient.
If you realise we actually had two main cream based dishes and
that actually left us feeling slightly bloated. We were so so stuffed after all
the dishes above, so we didn’t have desserts!
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All in all, it is such an amazing experience dining at
Nara Kitchen
& Co and to be back there again, with my parents. Completely honest, I’m
guilty for not spending enough time with my parents especially with the demands
of my work and trying to balance my social life too. So, it’s really great to
bond over good wholesome, comfort food at
Nara Kitchen
& Co. A huge thank you once again to
KetchUp’s team and Ms Caroline,
Nara Kitchen
& Co!
Till next time,
xoxo
