Kitaro Japanese Restaurant, Gadong

If you've been following my twitter, you'd have known that I've made a recent trip to the new Japanese restaurant in town which is Kitaro. It is located at the back of Centrepoint Hotel where Takara used to located at.

To avoid disappointment, I phoned the restaurant earlier to make reservation in the first place.

The restaurant's business was in brisk when we reached there and it made me felt fortunate that I had called earlier to secure our seats.

The waitress then lead us to our table and to my surprise, we were arranged to sit in one of their VIP rooms where this room contained 3 tables. In other words, we had to share that room with other guests.

Actually, I don't mind this but it just kinda made me felt awkward because the tables were arranged quite close to each other and we could actually overheard the conversations between other guests in that room (oooppps!).

Chef busy making sushi

We were seated in that room

The menu

I kinda like their menu as the printed wordings were big and easy to read and there were wide varieties of food to choose from; sushi, sashimi, bento set and many more.

But one down side is that the menu had less pictures. For eg. the restaurant serves few different types of 'agedashi tofu' but only a picture of one particular type was shown in the menu instead a picture for each type.

Another disappointment is that they don't provide jars of wasabi & ginger on the table =(

Green tea

Soy sauce was given though wasabi and ginger weren't

Tamago Nigiri, $2.50. The tamago was quite tasteless, thumb down.


Futo Maki, $6.80 for 4 pieces which I think it's rather pricey, tasted average

Agedashi Tofu, $5 for 4 pieces

Their version if Agedashi Tofu is different as it's served with tempura sauce instead of teriyaki sauce. It was served as the picture above. Taste wise, I would still prefer if it was served with teriyaki sauce instead.

Gyoza, $4.50. Their gyoza actually tasted not bad, quite nice.


Mixed Furai, $8 which it consisted of lady fingers, crabsticks, prawn and salmon fillet.

Chawan Mushi, $3.50


Hiyashi Special, $10

The highlight of that night was actually this dish, Hiyashi Special which it consisted of four types of Japanese noodles (soba, udon.....) and other ingredients like thinly sliced cucumbers, crabsticks, tofu skin and mango. The portion was enough for 2.

Another view

Sauce for the noodles

This dish has similar eating method as Cha Soba which the noodles is dipped into the sauce to flavour it. The sauce had a strong taste of sourness which I guess it was due to the vinegar and it was quite unique and different from other local Japanese restaurants' version (the ones that I had tried). Other restaurants' versions tasted saltier. This dish really made up our day.

The friendly waitress

Service was quite efficient on that night despite the crowd. A thumb up for newly opened restaurant ;)

Outside the restaurant

Hunnie Signing Off~