Tsubohachi @ Publika

What will come in your mind first when mentioned about Japanese food? Sushi? Nooo... That's too mainstream for Japanese food. You can find a lot of Japanese restaurant with sushi as their main dish in Malaysia. But what can you think about Japanese food, other than sushi? There are still lots of delicious food from Japan, if you only know sushi, then that's too wrong! Let's discover it together!

As everyone knows, Publika is a place which gathers all nice cafes and also restaurant for the young people to chill at night! There is a new opening Japanese restaurant located in Publika, Tsubohachi. As mentioned earlier, Tsubohachi is a Japanese restaurant, but the difference of Tsubohachi and other Japanese restaurants are they have many more special dishes that you can't find in other Japanese restaurants.

Tsubohachi is consider a quite classy Japanese restaurant. You can find it easily from the outside of Publika mall. It is located at the second floor of Publika, just above Ante Cafe. The restaurant is actually quite eye-catching from the outside. You can see ALL RED in the restaurant. When you enter the restaurant, you will be impressed by their interior design, it is just like Japanese style design. You can choose to sit at the normal tables or in the Japanese bucket. The Japanese bucket is super cute! Besides that, you can see many Japanese lanterns around and also few prosperity cat statue on top.

Just like other Japanese restaurant, they do serve sushi as well, but sushi is just too mainstream, so they add in some fun and special dishes into their menu. Let's see how fun is the food can be.

Buta Hakusai Nabe (RM29.90)

This dish is quite popular in the internet recently, it is quite healthy and the most important thing is low calories! Girls who having diet plan, don't have to worry about calories! It is actually pork belly and Chinese cabbage Mille-Feuille claypot. It can fit 2 to 3 pax, so share it with your friends! The pork belly and chinese cabbage match each other very well, and the soup is super sweet and nice! You should give this a try.

Tarabagani Kamameshi (RM36.90)

It is actually a pot rice with King Crab. The King Crab was first served uncooked, the waiter will then put on the fire and cook it in front of you. It will take around 10-15 minutes to cook the King Crab rice. The King Crab was placed on top of the rice, so the rice is quite tasty due to the sweetness of the King Crab. The King Crab is just nice and fresh. You need to eat the King Crab with the rice together and feel the freshness inside the King Crab, you will never regret about that.

Nagashi Somen Setto (RM27.90)

It is a flowing Somem Noodle Set. This dish was quite fun, it was served in a big green 'machine' with cucumber slices and tomatoes in the middle of the machine. There is ice surrounding the cucumber slices and tomatoes. You just need to put in the Somem Noodle into the machine, your noodles will keep on flowing in the machine. This creates interactive with your friends too, children will like it too!

A video posted by Sharon Loh (@spicysharon) on Dec 17, 2015 at 4:48pm PST

【Tsubohachi】

A2-UG1-9 Publika Solaris Dutamas,
Kuala Lumpur

Operating Hours: Mon - Sun (10:30am - 1:00am)

Tel: 03-6206 5526

Website: www. tsubohachi.com.my