Sep 9, 2012

Benihana 紅花

Located at Anantara Riverside Resort and Spa, BENIHANA is one of the most authentic Teppayaki restaurant in Thailand. This restaurant is originally from America. Serving meat and seafood grilled on hotplate with playful cooking method.


BENI = Red Color. HANA = Flower. That explians why the restaurant is decorated with Red tone contrasted with Black color.


This is the man behind our meal. The slogan ‘Eatertainment’ of BENIHANA sure lives up to its name. He cooked ingrredients right before our eyes all entire meal. His cooking is eye cathching and very fancy.


The chef manuer his cooking tool skillfully. He tossed everything from spatular to salt shakers and catched them agilely. EX : in this pic he catched salt shakers with his chef hat.


The plate and the logo of BENIHANA, the red flower.


If you are one of those who can’t use Chopsticks perfectly, BENIHANA has a solution for you. These are tied with rubber bands. It works like a small plier, which is easy to use.


We has young green Edamame beans to start our meal.



This is called Onion volcano. The chef piled up onions in pyramid shape an poued in Oil and Sake before litting the fire.


While we are waiting for the ingredients to be cookedm we had ourselve a few dishes from Sushi station. This is called Motown, roll sushi stuffed with creamy Alaska King Crab. The stuffing is rich  and full flavor.


 
The next one is called River Park. A nice combination of Tuna (River) and ripen Mango(Park).


This is Tai Ceviche. Sashimi grade Snapper diced. Seasoned with Red hot chillies sauce and Hawaian Pink Salt. Refreshing and I must say this can be addictive.


Soup was Shiitake mushroon and deep fried Onion clear soup.



Tiger Prawn is the first ingredients prepraed for us.



The Prawn was plump and fresh.


The chef slowly cooked the tail of shirmp and made it a crispy snack for us.


This is aromatic and has light texture. An enjoyable treat.


Pork Fillet marinated with plum. Served with grilled Pinaapple.


Pork fillet was incredibly tender. It took almost no effort to chew. And this goes well with butter grilled Pineapple.



The next one is scallop.


The scallop was in nice quality and fresh. But I wish it was a little more plump.


This is agruably the highlight of our meal. Wagyu fillet. This is one of House Specialties, Hibachi Tuna Steak. The wagyu is accompanied with Sesame Tuna.


The sesame coating was grilled to the light crispiness. This sure enrich the flavour of Tuna very well.



Wagyu was grilled to medium rare as we ordered. The meat was tender and full flavor.


Sesame Tuna is served with stir fried veggie. Giving it a refreshing touch.


The next set of House Specialties was Salmon and Sweet sauce Saba. The salmon was grill from the skin to make it crispy.


Also Saba was grilled nicely.


Salmon was seasoned with salt. While Saba is season with sweet sauce.


The sauce was roasted on hot plate intensifyng its aroma and flavor.


The last savory was Fried Rice. Look at the height of eggyolk, and you know how fresh the egg is.


Chef was playful enough to stir fried and make a heart shape out of the fried rice. LOL



The portion was big. This is seasoned wirh sesame and Japanese Soysauce. An enjoyable fried rice.


We ended our meal with Green Tea Icecream. A rich one. Nice finale to our meal.

Overall it was another satisfying meal. The service and the chef was very friendly. We had our food cooked playfully in front of our eyes. This is more like we had been to a show or something. It was more than a mere lunch we had at BENIHANA. The slogan Eatertainment was there for a good sake afterall.  


Benihana 
Anantara Riverside Resort & Spa
11:30 - 14:30 / 18:00 - 22:30
02-476-0022 #1416

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