The New Healthy @ Sushi Tei
March
15, 2018
JAPANESE
chain Sushi Tei jumped on the poke bowl bandwagon when it added this to its
regular menu at the end of January 2018. Poke (pronounced “poh-kay”) is a
Hawaiian one-bowl dish comprising cubes of raw fish marinated in a dressing
(usually soya sauce) and served with nuts, fruit and vegetables such as avocado,
mango, pickles, pine nuts or salad greens. The classic poke seafood is tuna or
cured octopus.
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| Chef Choo Kian Yit |
Sushi
Tei’s Chef Choo Kian Yit (left) says the new poke bowl is “a simple, nutritious meal that
can keep you going the rest of the day” and indeed the portion is satisfying.
There
are four Poke Bowls with calorie counts of only 400-469 per serving. The base is brown rice
from the Akita Prefecture in Japan. This super-premium, short-grain rice is
firm, with a faintly nutty taste.
The Magura Poke Bowl (RM23.80) is topped with tuna chunks, kyuri, chia and
melon seeds, chopped almonds, crab stick, pickles, fresh salad and sesame seeds.
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| Maguro Poke Bowl (left) and Salmon Poke Bowl |
The Salmon Poke Bowl (RM21.80) has
fresh salmon, kyuri (cucumber), Japanese
black beans, chia and melon seeds, chopped almonds and fresh salad. There is
also an Ebi (shrimp) Poke Bowl (RM27.80) with tiger prawn.
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| Chicken Teri Poke Bowl |
The
fourth, Chicken Teri Poke Bowl (RM18.80)
is not a true poke as instead of seafood, it’s topped with grilled chicken, kyuri, chia and sunflower seeds, chopped
almonds, pickles, fresh salad and sesame seeds.
Customers
can choose from 3 dressings: Wafuu onion sauce, wasabina sauce and apple sauce.
I like the apple sauce best, probably because it has a mild “pedas” edge that’s
pleasing to my tastebud.
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| Avocado Yasai Roll |
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| Inari (fried beancurd skin) Yasai Roll |
Sushi Tei also has a treat for vegetarians
(however, some dishes may contain garlic, leek, dairy and egg). First, the maki rolls (RM13.80): Avocado Yasai Roll and Inari Yasai Roll.
while Inari
Yasai Roll (RM13.80) is rolled with beancurd skin and topped with edamame.
Yasai
means vegetables.
The
Avocado Roll is sushi rice, carrot, radish, takuan (pickled radish), sweet
potato, mayonnaise and seaweed wrapped with slices of avocado and topped with sweet
Japanese black beans while the Inari Roll has takuan, asparagus, kanpyo, egg,
seaweed, mayonnaise and sushi rice
rolled with beancurd and topped with edamame.
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| Okura Natto To Yamaimo Senggiri and Satsuma Imo To Kobacha Salad |
Okura
Natto To Yamaimo Senggiri (RM6.80) is an acquired taste and I must admit that I
haven’t quite acquired it. I find the slimy natto (fermented soya bean), Japanese
yam and sliced ladyfinger quite overwhelming and only manage to eat a quarter
of the serving portion. It’s topped with seaweed and a soft-boiled quail egg.
But
there are lots of lovely side dishes. My favourites are Potato Gyoza (RM9.80)
and Satsuma Imo To Kabocha Salad (RM7.80) which is cubed Japanese sweet potato
with mashed pumpkin and raisins to add sweetness.
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| Potato Gyoza, panfried with potato and carrot filling |
Gyoza usually
has a meat filling but the potato gyoza proves to be a refreshing change.
Dipped in chilli-soya sauce, it tastes like a soft curry puff. Best eaten hot
but do beware as the hot filling can burn lips.
Then
there are croquettes – Edamame, Sweet Potato and Pumpkin (RM8.80- RM9.80).
There
are also vegetable curry rice and fried rice with vegetables as well as Namako Yasai
(RM21.80), which is a treasure bowl with wedges of pumpkin, sweet potato,
button mushroom, tofu, shredded scallions on noodles (udon/ramen/soba) in a
miso stock.
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| Ramen with konjac sea cucumber, pumpkin, sweet potato, button mushroom, tofu, shredded scallion in miso stock |
What throws me off balance is the sight of sea cucumber but this turns out
to be a vegetarian substitute made from konjac, so it’s crunchy and bouncy in
texture.
SUSHI TEI
(no pork served)
All outlets in Klang Valley, Penang and Ipoh
OPERATING
HOURS
10am to 10pm
I shall try when I get the chance.
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