Tanuki - Excellent
I had recently visited the newly opened Tanuki at Dubai mall, located in the ground floor with a fantastic location, where you can sit inside if not on the outside, seeing the magnificent view of the Dubai skyline, Burj Al Arab and the Fountain. This it self is enough for me to fall in love with this place. The interiors are a fine mix of contemporary design with far eastern decors on the wall. Loved the tables made from half cut trees, fine wooded panels. Inside can sit over 100 people and the outside can gladly hold up to 70. Guess what, they have an interactive robot at the entrance, it can take commands, take order and even give you a discount on your order. How cool is that.
Enough said, we move on with the food and beverages. To start we got the spicy Edamame, Loved the spicy rub of the chili on the beans and you would be glad to know that it was priced AED 20. Next we got the Tanuki Yam, this was not your usual Tom yam soup, this was different. This is their signature soup, coconut milk,shrimps, mussels, squid and wa served with rice.The have focused on the soup and and not filled with leaves and all. Pure pleasure having this fine flavour mix in the soup.
We got the seafood dim sum, which had 4 pieces, We loved it and the chili sauce dip added the extra flavour for the dim sum. Being in a far eastern restaurant I wanted to try their Sushi, which was called the Tanuki Deluxe, which had 6 pieces mixed with avocado, creme sauce, tobiko, unagi, spicy mango sauce. The rice roll was firm and the toppings were fine, sign of an expert maker in the kitchen. Sir, the food that I tried so far has been wonderful and has given me a great variety of the far eastern cuisine.
For the mains we ordered the Beef Teriyaki and Seafood Tyahan. The beef was really cooked well, and the whole dish was a complete satisfying meal. The seafood Tyahan had ample ingredients of Prawns and Calamari, loved this, but would have wanted the portion to be a bit larger, because it went down so soon.
They had a wide selection desserts on offer and after much thought we picked the Mochi and Tiramisu. The mochi came in three flavours and we picked the mango to go with, loved the outer dough, not too hard but perfect consistency all around, loved it. The Tiramisu presentation was nice,
the dark cocoa powder was a bit over powering, would have liked a less cocoa.
Overall, It was a such a nice experience and I need to mention about Yanmin how was serving us through the evening. Such a pleasing personality and always with a smile, her suggestion on the menu was good, always helpful and cheerful. Sylvia who is the manager of the the restaurant was very helpful to, she checked on us from time to time and even suggested some items to try from the menu. Both of these ladies really made our time special.
I had recently visited the newly opened Tanuki at Dubai mall, located in the ground floor with a fantastic location, where you can sit inside if not on the outside, seeing the magnificent view of the Dubai skyline, Burj Al Arab and the Fountain. This it self is enough for me to fall in love with this place. The interiors are a fine mix of contemporary design with far eastern decors on the wall. Loved the tables made from half cut trees, fine wooded panels. Inside can sit over 100 people and the outside can gladly hold up to 70. Guess what, they have an interactive robot at the entrance, it can take commands, take order and even give you a discount on your order. How cool is that.
Enough said, we move on with the food and beverages. To start we got the spicy Edamame, Loved the spicy rub of the chili on the beans and you would be glad to know that it was priced AED 20. Next we got the Tanuki Yam, this was not your usual Tom yam soup, this was different. This is their signature soup, coconut milk,shrimps, mussels, squid and wa served with rice.The have focused on the soup and and not filled with leaves and all. Pure pleasure having this fine flavour mix in the soup.
We got the seafood dim sum, which had 4 pieces, We loved it and the chili sauce dip added the extra flavour for the dim sum. Being in a far eastern restaurant I wanted to try their Sushi, which was called the Tanuki Deluxe, which had 6 pieces mixed with avocado, creme sauce, tobiko, unagi, spicy mango sauce. The rice roll was firm and the toppings were fine, sign of an expert maker in the kitchen. Sir, the food that I tried so far has been wonderful and has given me a great variety of the far eastern cuisine.
For the mains we ordered the Beef Teriyaki and Seafood Tyahan. The beef was really cooked well, and the whole dish was a complete satisfying meal. The seafood Tyahan had ample ingredients of Prawns and Calamari, loved this, but would have wanted the portion to be a bit larger, because it went down so soon.
They had a wide selection desserts on offer and after much thought we picked the Mochi and Tiramisu. The mochi came in three flavours and we picked the mango to go with, loved the outer dough, not too hard but perfect consistency all around, loved it. The Tiramisu presentation was nice,
the dark cocoa powder was a bit over powering, would have liked a less cocoa.
Overall, It was a such a nice experience and I need to mention about Yanmin how was serving us through the evening. Such a pleasing personality and always with a smile, her suggestion on the menu was good, always helpful and cheerful. Sylvia who is the manager of the the restaurant was very helpful to, she checked on us from time to time and even suggested some items to try from the menu. Both of these ladies really made our time special.
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