Buffet Outing At Jogoya, Star Hill Gallery
June 1st, 2007.
Categories: Eating...
Warning : Shit loads of photos. I mean, really lots of them.
I think I am the last blogger to blog about Star Hill Gallery’s Jogoya since the restaurant made its debut at KL many months ago and discovered by Wingz. Despite the many reviews from many food bloggers, a few of my makan kakis said the other wise. Nee even double confirmed it after she did her food review there.
However, Sook Ying wanted to try the restaurant so badly that she pestered me a few times even a month before she came back to Malaysia. I promised her to give her something for her birthday and also to thank her for the gifts and mails she sent to me when she was in US, I decided to make another trip to KL to hang out and have lunch at Jogoya with her and her best friend, Hui Xin.
It wasn’t that difficult to locate the restaurant, which is at the Relish Floor (Fifth, I think.) of Star Hill Gallery. However, before we even managed to step our foot inside the restaurant, we were required to pay first. Yes, pay first, eat later. The price was RM78 for the lunch session, not inclusive of tax and 10% service charge. The price is different for each session, lunch, late lunch, dinner and supper, with the most expensive session is the dinner at RM88 per pax.
Ambiance is nice and the whole restaurant is very spacious and huge. They opted for the open kitchen concept and you can see the chefs in action, from the first step like preparing the ingredients up till the dish is ready to be served. Basically, you just have to take what you want to eat and that’s it. For those that need to be cooked, place your Jogoya clip into the bowl and wait for the dish to be brought to your table once it is done. Seriously, I really love the sight of the white mist flowing out from the blower and with ice at the bottom. Damn wicked, especially with a black background. Damn mysterious looking.
There are many sections in the restaurants, mainly the Japan’s, India’s, Taiwan’s, BBQ’s, drinks, pastries, desserts, clay pots, teppanyaki and many more. You will be greeted with lots and lots and lots and lots of food. So much that you wonder whether you can finish eating them in 1 session. Here are some pictures and sights that will greet you as you walk around the restaurant.
Let’s take a break before we proceed by posting up some self cam-whoring pictures, mainly yours truly, Sook Ying and Hui Xin. It was my first time meeting Hui Xin and third or forth time for Sook Ying. Both of them have been best friends since their secondary school time and are bloggers too. As for other information, next time lah! Both are already taken, what’s the point, right?
There are just too many food that we tried and ate. Some of them tasted really good like the curry powder crabs, most of them tasted average and some of them tasted really bad.
Sashimi.
Sushi or whatever-you-call-hand-rolled sushi.
A plate of various varieties of Japanese food.
BBQ eel. This thing is awesome. Crispy on the outside and slime-y on the inside. I had one stick only though as it gets disgusting if you have more than two sticks.
BBQ corn and prawns.
Assorted BBQ chickens, fish and chicken balls.
Satay
Dim sum. Don’t bother trying, you can get better ones outside or any coffee shops.
Over cooked teppanyaki beef.
Stir fried golden needle mushroom. Damn oily and not really nice.
Deep fried mantis prawn.
Seafood clay pot with tom yam sauce.
Fresh oyster with lemon / lime. I didn’t try the fresh oysters because I never like the taste of raw seafood, fearing that I might puke everything out after that. I wanted to try it after I finished my meal but I got chickened.
Bamboo oyster(?).
Mussels.
Cheese baked escargots (Thanks, PurpleRose.).
Tempura prawns and fish with tartar sauce and chili sauce.
Fresh prawns with pineapples.
Sweet and sour plum crabs. Not nice, too sweet.
Curry powder crabs. They were really nice and I ordered like 6 or 7 pieces of crabs. However, it is a little salty for Sook Ying.
Some tomato sauce based prawns.
Pan fried cod fish.
Chocolate and coffee ice cream.
Herbal pudding and marshmallows.
Honey dew bun. Yucks! I always hate artificial honey dew flavouring.
Chocolate mousse / cake.
Mango pudding. Very hard and tasteless.
Green tea smoothie. It is very green tea-ish (Duh!), very cooling and nice but not after I finished one whole glass of it due to Sook Ying’s greediness.
I drank nothing but the Thailand’s coconuts. I think I myself had 7 or 8 of them. Outside is selling at RM3.50 to RM4.50 for one and I don’t order unless I am feeling rich. At Jogoya, it’s free flow!
We entered the restaurant at 12.30PM and only left the restaurant at about 4PM. That’s a full 3 hours 30 minutes buffet session! Even those who entered together with us or after us had already left the restaurant and yet we were still there munching our food away. It has been a long long long time since I ate this much of food. I can’t even remember the last time I went to a buffet, minus those lousy steamboat buffet sessions in Malacca.
Overall, it’s still a nice experience to dine in there, but with the hefty price tag of almost RM90 / RM100 per head, I would definitely think twice before I step into the restaurant for the second time. The food is rather slightly above average but nothing to shout about still. There are lots of varieties of food for you to choose from but you tend to go back for the same thing again after some time. Nonetheless, it’s quite enjoyable to dine in Jogoya but to go back there again in a short time, I don’t think so.
Now, some cam-whoring pictures! Heh!
And that was my first Jogoya outing.
Jogoya
T3, Relish Floor,
Starhill Gallery,
Kuala Lumpur.
Tel No: 03 – 2142 1268
P/S : Read Sook Ying’s and Hui Xin’s post on our Jogoya outing.
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June 1st, 2007 00:52
talking about last… dun worry man… u’re way in front of me… haha…
i’ve always wanted to go… no chance… coz no cash… haha…
June 1st, 2007 00:56
Show off… Always dun want to bring me along…
dis type of kor kor *shakes head*
I also want to celebrate my birthday at Star Hill Gallery’s Jogoya… MONDAY!
June 1st, 2007 01:40
Definitely worth eating there.. ;) but i’m such a small eater.. it would just be a real waste..! plus my PB hor.. and the brat.. doubt can sit for so many hours.. ;)
And i usually like to eat my food with reading a magazine.. so i’m quite anti-social.. when it comes to eating good food.. ;)
June 1st, 2007 02:19
i’m havin a difficulty to see ur blog using dial up :(
June 1st, 2007 02:30
Nifty restaurant but quite on the high price side. Thank goodness for conversion rate. :lol:
June 1st, 2007 03:16
The cheese baked snails are called escargots :)
June 1st, 2007 07:36
Lol! So much food! Eat one day can tahan 2 days meal d. Haha..
June 1st, 2007 08:09
me next Monday will go wth 38K wow… u mau join lagi ?? :p
Er….me go sana 3 kali liao.. :p
June 1st, 2007 08:35
wah…. me feel like wanna go there again!!!
June 1st, 2007 09:41
Hmm… Don’t think I will go there and eat for that kind of price… The food looks very normal. hehe..
June 1st, 2007 09:41
wah
i always wanna go try
and it looks soo niceee
June 1st, 2007 10:06
Wah!! so many kinds of foods, RM78 is ok lor…
my saliva is flowing out oredi.. aiyoh…
June 1st, 2007 10:55
wooot the thing i like most is the thai coconut free flow, bahaha drink til stomach bloats! my fav food there is stim cod fish, wonder why didn’t you ordered them. and yes i agree, some of the food there taste nice and some are just soso.
June 1st, 2007 10:56
Hung Wei : Haha, I’m not the last. No money? Write PayPerPost or save more money to go! Haha!
Jamie : You got class and not free. Besides, your birthday no need celebration one. :P
Mama Bok : Haha! Stuff the other two at home and call me out. Just you and me, we go eat. Then you can definitely eat in peace. :D
Sean : That’s close to impossible.
Vien : Does that mean you can sponsor me too? :P
Purplerose : Thanks for pointing it out.
Shinky : Already said is buffet, sure eat a lot and like nobody business.
Candy : Third time?! Hebat! Since you are so rich, why I never see you waste RM0.20 to call me when you are in Malacca?
婷婷** : Go lah go lah!
Cutie : No harm trying, right? At least, go there once.
Han Ping : Go and try then! ;)
湘绣蜻蜓 : Haha! RM78 is quite expensive for student like me, but once in a while, it’s okay. Heh!
Yung. : Yes, free flow of coconuts! Something that I always wanted to order when I am outside. Ha! I don’t like fish. :P I like beef, mutton, chicken, crabs and the last meat I want to eat is fish.
June 1st, 2007 11:07
Buy flash gun!
Get one of those thyristor type flashes where you can use ‘auto’.
The ‘auto’ mode functions even there’s no communication with the camera apart from sync. I used the SB-800 on my medium format once.
June 1st, 2007 12:45
So many food and choices!!! Arh….. must control myself of not thinking the food…ohno I keep on gaining weight T_T
June 1st, 2007 13:04
yeah!!! JoGoYa !! i like it!! various types of food!! i tried for dinner many months ago. the food there quite nice!! but i like the ambiance there than the food. haha!!! have you VISIT their toilet? haha~ nice design!!
i plan to go Jogoya again, because i haven’t try for their appetizers n cakes yet. tat time, after take my main course, very fulled already! so, next time i will start from cakes 1st and follow by appetizers……haha!!!
June 1st, 2007 13:09
You’re not the last person. I haven’t been to Jogoya yet. Hahaha
June 1st, 2007 13:25
wah lau eh~! giler sial with all da food..*drools*..
June 1st, 2007 18:53
wow….many pictures taken by me!! haha…
i’m proud that u choose my picture!
eh….u really post that headless picture ar…-_-”
June 1st, 2007 22:43
Wah wah wah~~!!! Nice photos!!!
I am going to Jogoya with friends tomorrow, and I will eat all these food tomorrow.. hehehe..
June 2nd, 2007 01:40
Dr. Tan : Cool it cool it. I am totally lost. Haha! Mind explaining what is it all about?
Fattien : Eat first, think later. LOL.
Sherry : People start eating appetizer, followed by main course then only desserts. Why yours terbalik geh?
Che-Cheh : Haha! Phew… When are you planning to go there?
Klang Boy : Your food pics in Australia also not bad what!
Hui Xin : Haha! I used all the available photos, that’s including yours, mine and Sook Ying’s. Heh! Yaloh, you said you don’t want to show face mah.
Janesse : Ha! Have fun eating like no tomorrow. :D
June 2nd, 2007 11:55
i am soooo ready to kill someone now, it’s not even funny.
i am soooo gonna eat there when i go back, i’m contemplating asking my parents to pick me up from Jogoya with my luggages, instead of the airport.
i am soooo willing to pay RM88 for tat meal. i’d even throw in a couple of cents for tips.
ps: The 17th picture from the top…tat’s totally like standing in a bakery/pastry/cake shop and instead of having to choose only one to buy, u get a free flow of everything! Now TAT is my life long dream…
June 2nd, 2007 18:32
hehehe, me saw some of the pics b4 !
June 2nd, 2007 21:23
i wanted to go last week. but now they imposed a two hour eating limit! so we decided to go marriot instead…
June 3rd, 2007 00:41
so many pics :( i cant view all
June 3rd, 2007 20:51
Wow, so much food for a meal! SO nice to be young and able to eat that much. My friends and I used to go for hi-tea or buffets and stayed the longest possible to yak and yak till the waiter came to inform us “sorry, we are going to close this area”, those were the days! :-)
June 5th, 2007 11:27
Huiyoh! Kaya kononnya!
RM100 I can eat 40 plates of char koey teow ledi! Haha…
June 5th, 2007 12:32
Yea Lee : LOL. I know you are cursing me right now. Haha! Hopefully the restaurant doesn’t close down until you come back.
Simmy : Yes, you did. Exclusive sneak preview for you.
Simon : Is it? But I was there for more than two hours! Haha!
Debbie : Found a solution for you. ;)
Leah : Haha! I don’t think we all have the luxury and the time to do so already. But yeah, those were the days.
Bryan : Since when a plate of CKY in Penang is only RM2.50? :P Don’t lie, okay!
June 6th, 2007 10:21
Got! CKY at some market is only RM2.50! Cheap and delicious! Haha…
June 6th, 2007 11:14
Bryan : Nice one or not? Taste like craps one not counted hor!
October 10th, 2007 21:05
Wahhh!!! It look like nice and delicious…yummy!! Feel hungry now!!
I swear i want to go thr try try baru tau la haha…
October 10th, 2007 21:15
Penny : Haha! Go there and have fun. :)
November 19th, 2007 19:59
jogoya 2nd anniversary,female got 50% discount,untill 18 dec 2007(mon~web)
November 19th, 2007 23:43
Chia : That is a very sexist promotion indeed. :D
December 1st, 2007 22:32
going to jogoya….:)
December 1st, 2007 22:50
Phyllis : Have fun then. I might be going soon.
December 18th, 2007 17:11
the promotion of second aniversary so fast fully booked=.=
want to eat somemore!!!!!!!!!!!!
YumMY#
December 18th, 2007 17:12
Charistle : Haha! I booked almost 2 weeks earlier but I didn’t go last minute because of unforeseen reasons.
March 5th, 2008 15:33
Reasonable… :)
March 21st, 2008 13:35
who wan to belanja me?? =p
March 21st, 2008 13:43
Ashlie : Not really.
Kelly : Buy yourself?
June 11th, 2008 17:39
tats is good…
next time sure will go 1…
but my pocket will have a big hole…
June 11th, 2008 19:59
Tarzan : Well, there are better options than Jogoya. It was a hit back then, but not anymore.
July 8th, 2008 22:09
lol…i’d been there too..haha…just exactly a month after you…damn nice man…..damn luxurious………!!!!!!!wo!!!
July 8th, 2008 23:42
Tianhua : Hehe. Been there, eaten there, case close. LOL. Won’t visit them anymore, I supposed.
August 6th, 2008 16:26
Ah YA! I want go jogoya take a dinner….last month i got try take a dinner buffet at genting first world cafe …bad so bad…the food or srevis also …haiz…
no good..
want go jogoya lei..
August 7th, 2008 00:32
Kesther : Hehe. Just go only.
August 25th, 2008 12:14
jogoya is a nice place for food and gathering,
gogogoggogoggo
August 25th, 2008 15:54
Sky : Not cheap.
September 17th, 2008 11:29
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January 25th, 2009 22:34
can i online booking???
February 22nd, 2009 18:25
Super Super tempting food. I shall fast a day before feasting t Jogoya.
So looking forward for my visit there soon! Yummy food, here i come!
June 9th, 2009 18:55
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