Restaurant Review: Aji Noren Japanese Restaurant

Aji Noren Japanese Restaurant (味暖簾日本料理) is a family style setup runned by a young couple. Nevertheless, it's name is famous one among the Japanese expats working in Penang (island and mainland alike) because of its persistence in quality, pricing and service. And of course not to forget it is famous too among local people and visitors to Penang too. Read more below what are so special inside the menu and the secrets for making customers coming back and back again.

Located within Prima Tanjung, facing a construction site named City Mall by Ivori Properties, the business park is right in front of Island Plaza Shopping Mall in Tanjung Tokong area of Penang Island. I find it wrong from google map search result if you directly search for "Aji Noren Japanese Restaurant" so i'll just include the location of the Prima Tanjung location here. The restaurant is few shops to the right of where the red arrow pins. 

We ordered a set dinner - Tepan Chicken & Agedashi Tofu Set, Karakuchi Ramen and Yasai Salada.  The default free flow drink is green tea served hot or cold. So below are our foods:

Yasai Salada

Teppan Chicken & Agedashi Tofu set dinner

Karakuchi Ramen - Medium Spicy

The foods were served on a normal waiting time range, i.e. 5-10min. While waiting, you can actually browse the vast selection on japanese comics in front of the cashier. Some of the comic like Gon has no conversation so no worry if you don't know Japanese. What i like about the restaurant is that the consistency of the flavours are well within the acceptable tolerance over such a long time i've been visiting this outlet who is in charged by Eric the master cook. While in the front line, Alicia and her time is always a welcoming team that provide a very, very friendly service :P.  Sometimes, you can actually customise the dish to your liking, i.e. spicy level, skin-on or off, doneness of the ramen,  etc etc. 

So what about the rating? (-1 means No Good, 0 means neutral, 1=Good making 5 is full score and -5 is lowest score)

Food Presentation = 0

Taste/Texture = 1

Service = 1

Price = 1

Overall Atmosphere = 1

Total score = 4, will purposely drive there if want to eat Japanese cuisine. 

The verdict: Many eateries has inconsistence taste overtime but not Ajinoren. Each of the dish has it's distinctive character which not many restaurant do it. While on the service, please just tell the team what you want even sometimes it is off the menu and do not hesitate to tell them if you find something wrong in the dish, they are open for comment. To the price, all above are LESS than RM 50.00 and don't get me wrong, they never compromise the ingredients with price. 

Useful Tips:

1) They accept reservation, call them at 04-899 4720. Most of the time they are full house. 

2) If there is no carpark by the road side, u can park in the underground carpark

3) Refer to below pics for business hour

4) They have outdoor sitting area

5) There are vast selection of beer foods if you just want to chill out there.

6) On top of beers, they sell Japanese liquors and you can store it there if you cant finish. 

Other Pics:

Business Hour

The comic collection. Look for Gon, maybe your kids will like it

The indoor sitting area