Express Teppan-Yaki, Food Junction, Quill City Mall, Kuala Lumpur (KL)

Address:
Stall #R2, Food Junction, Lot 4-65, 4th Floor, Quill City Mall, Jalan Sultan Ismail, 50250 Kuala Lumpur (KL), Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia

Opening Hours:
Daily, 10am - 10pm

Time Visited:
Close to 7pm for dinner on Saturday after New Year

Attire worn:
Casual

Item(s) Ordered (Photos taken as inconspicuous as possible with my phone):
Chicken Chop Set

Food Junction is a known food court that provides variety of food at one place and has etched it's name into the scene of shopping malls.

But to me, it's merely a fancy food court because the pricing does not really reflect the cheapness of one. Perhaps you may consider it as the likes of Hutong at Lot 10 and the ever so busy Signatures food court at KLCC. That would be comparable to this food court since it dons the title of food court but pricing may exceed RM10 in a given meal.

Today, for once, I venture into the Food Junction of Quill City Mall; a most rarest of occasion because I dislike dining at food courts what's more one that costs quite dear in my opinion. At Quill City Mall, you have to wonder what is the purpose of building such a mall that serves no purpose with the already saturated market of Malaysia. During my time there, I did see some people walking around at the mall but I find it way too little. At the Food Junction, there's just about 10 stalls that occupy the whole of the food court. That's all. I soon settled for Express Teppan-Yaki which interestingly has a waitress to pass you a menu and take your order.

Despite the name Teppan-Yaki, it would be a gross misnomer to call it Japanese. I hardly saw anything that reflects Japanese. The only thing that probably describes it as such is that it copies the way of preparing the dish which is preparing the meat on an iron griddle and using 2 grill scrapers to cook the meat. The staffs there consists of only foreigners. I can't tell what language they were speaking. Maybe they're from Myanmar.

If you sit at where the staff prepares your meat at the iron grill, the staff there will lay out a piece of tin foil in front of you and later place the vegetables on it. If you're sitting at one of the tables not at the iron griddle, then the staff who takes orders will send it to you and the vegetables will be together with the meat on a plate. That's the only main difference that I saw.

The "set" comes with a bowl of rice and a bowl of vegetable soup. I initially wanted to go for the chicken breast set, but they said that it was out of stock and so I chose the next thing that's most closest which is the chicken chop set. I have no idea why it's called chicken chop since they chop the thing into pieces to serve to you and not a one piece chicken.

The vegetables were very greasy where towards the end, you can see a stream of oil just oozing off of the tin foil when you get to the bottom. The soup has some vegetable taste to it but mainly taste like water. The chicken that was served is just chicken ala black pepper sauce style with some chili in the mix to spice it up. Hardly Japanese like at all. The chicken with the black pepper sauce tasted okay. Good thing the meat was the best thing among everything that was served to me.

Total Wallet Damage:
RM15.90. GST 6% inclusive.

Final Verdict:
4/10. What do you expect. It's a food court anyway. It's where people go for the cheap food to fill their tummy and not for the taste nor environment. Though cheap isn't exactly what I would call it.
Not sure whether to tag this as Japanese since it's not exactly Japanese.