Tired of trying to work our way around Asia by trying a different country's food type each night, we settled on Friday to treat ourselves to Japanese once again. I'm the kind of person who could probably eat Japanese food at least two or three nights a week, at least as often as I can eat Italian food. For one, most people only think sushi when you say Japanese, and while that's a good reason to go for japanese cuisine, there's also tempura, sukiyaki, teriyaki, and then there's a fusion where you mix a japanese style of cooking to western ingredients or vice versa. Ozeki does the latter, and it's well worth trying.

When we sat down and I mentioned that I wanted to order a bottle of saki, the waitress immediately pointed out the half-price bottle special. Of course I couldn't say no to such, although I suspected, and was correct, that the saki was not as dry as I normally would have ordered. Now that I've given up drinking saki steaming hot (which is one way to mask that the saki isn't very good), it's much easier to tell when a saki is dry enough. Still, at the price, it was a decent saki.

J's definitive japanese dish is agedoshi, or aged tofu. It's something that I can typically eat one or two, but she will devour the entire plate. Ozeki had two, and the special version came with topped with a filligre of some kind of vegetable floss. While it added a nice flavor, the tofu itself was in larger pieces and much more soft that I can for. I ate one, she had three.

The next dish, though, was spectacular, and on that we both agreed. It was a flattened roll topped with freshwater eel. Now, I'm an eel fan. I like eel. We had even had eel the night before, but I wasn't going to say no to an eel sushi roll. And I'm certainly glad I didn't. A large enough roll that you really couldn't eat it in one go (unless you wanted to look, and possibly act, like John Belushi in Animal House), the flavor was so delightful that you couldn't wait to take that second bite.

After we finished that, we both felt full, but unfortunately we had ordered everything at the beginning and we still both had entrees: a full vegetable Bento box for Jill and a tuna donburi for me. Neither of us finished them, as they were large and we were stuffed.

We definitely will return to Ozeki, and I can see that it could easily become our favorite KL Japanese restaurant.