Shiraku
Soba is one of the newest additions to the evolving Elang Laut area, and I
guess the name said it all, Shiraku is a soba specialist restaurant.
If
you’ve never been to Elang Laut before, it’s actually quite easy to reach. If
you make your way from the main PIK entrance (front entrance), take the usual
road that usually takes you to Rumah Sakit PIK, you’ll find a Burger King on
your way, and instead of turning right to RS PIK, you turn left and keep
straight passing the four way road until you cross the bridge and then turn
left, and then turn right, and just like that you’re basically at the Elang
Laut area. Shiraku Soba is located align with Itadakimasu if that makes it
easier. Soba
is suddenly a big thing right after Abura Soba started the whole thing. I
wouldn’t say that Shiraku is Abura’s wanna or look-a-like, as both are totally
different. Keep reading.
The
restaurant was designed very simply with majority earthy tone and material
decorating the whole interior: concrete wall and floor and wood to cater that
modern Japanese ambiance. There are two stories in the restaurant building and
both has a strict no-smoking policy here. GOOD.
Kicked
off with their signature drinks here, besides serving soba, they’re expanding
their product by launching homemade artisan tea. The tea is imported directly
from Japanese and guaranteed to have premium quality. I tried the signature
Genmaicha consisting of Sencha green tea, roasted rice to add in the fragrance,
and matcha green tea powder, and since I love bold tea flavor, boy this was delightful.
The Genmaicha indeed has strong and rich matcha character, slightly bitter but
with a very pleasing aftertaste.
On the
other hand, my brother had their homemade Matcha Nutella drink which unexpectedly
turned out to be VERY GOOD and served in this unique cookie glass (IDR 35k). I
was honestly skeptical about the drink and thought it would be one of those
common matcha and nutella mix drink, but I was so wrong. This is entirely my
opinion, but to me this drink is very-very addicting.
Tempted
to try another one, so we had the Matcha Avocado to share, but I was already
sold to the Matcha Nutella so this didn’t left an impression as the previous
one lol.
Yaki Tori Gyoza – IDR 36k An easy
appetizer to prepare you before the big boys! Homemade minced chicken dumpling
served with their special tare sauce.
They
have two kinds of noodle here: Shiro and
Ramen. FYI any kind of noodle is called soba in Japan, so it’s not always one
of those thin noodle you see on the cold soba, even Abura Soba’s version is
like the thinner version of udon, and Shiraku’s version is like the typical
eggy noodle one, with yellow color and simply tempting at any time, so here
goes the first point why Abura and Shiraku is different. Personally, I like the firmer kind of noodle so I opted
for the Shiro soba. The
variety of the soba dishes are huge, there are probably five pages for the soba
alone. Had a pretty big lunch on my visit and shared everything with my
brother. Buta Tan-Tan Soba – IDR
55,8k
This
is their simple signature dish, Buta Tan-Tan Soba, a good old soba served with
soft boiled eggs, spring onions, sesame seeds, dried seaweed and tender slices
of pork (chasiu). They’re using their signature shoyu and tan-tan tare sauce
here to elevate the flavor. It’s salty, savory, rich, but not that kind of
overpowering rich where it’s all about the MSG, but the one where the
aftertaste blended nicely. The chasius were cooked perfectly, resulting this
tender slices without eliminating the juicy fatty parts. YUM!
Gyuniku Teriyaki Soba – IDR
75,8k
This
one happens to be one of my personal favorites of my lunch that day, I mean
just look at that dish! One very appealing and tempting portion of Abura Soba
with generous slices of premium Australian Sirloin steak, cooked perfectly
medium, and seasoned lightly emphasizing the natural flavor of the beautiful
beef to shine. Their signature Miso Tare sauce is still served here with a mix
of teriyaki sauce, served with soft boiled eggs (I expected the egg to be a
little runny and softer), spring onions, sesame seeds, and dried seaweed. The
tender Australian Sirloin steak with its beautiful flavor was such a fit to the
firm and more textured soba. A dish I would go back and re-order. For IDR
75,8k, this is a good price.
Tori Katsu Kare Soba – IDR
56,8k
Out of
the 3 sobas I had. My personal favorite has got to the curry soba, just
something about the firm and eggy soba that match the flavor of the tasty, rich
and creamy curry sauce, and not to mention, because of the thick curry sauce
itself, you can totally experience the maximum flavor of the curry from every
strain of the soba, where the sauce is sticking onto. Mix everything along, it’s
just so saucy, rich and DAYUM! Beautiful texture play came from the crunchy
deep fried marinated chicken thigh, and because it’s the thigh part, it’s
crunchy on the outside (batter/coating) with tender meat.
Gyutan Don – IDR 55,8k Besides
soba, they also have donburi creations, I tried their Gyutan Don,
which BTW you can easily find at almost every restaurant in town, I mean like
almost every remaining and new restaurant have this on their menus, but of
course each and everyone of them executed them differently. Their Gyutan was
tender, but I expected more slices and the hint of beautiful spicy flavor to
it.
Was
tempted to sample their desserts, they have special kakigori (chocolate and
fruit ones), but I guess I’ll save that for the next visit J. Short to say, you just
can’t compare Shiraku and Abura Soba, they both have different products with
different flavors, taste, presentation and all, but again, it’s all back to
ones’ preference. I won’t take sides.
Shiraku Soba Ruko Elang Laut Blok D No. 39, Pantai Indah KapukJakarta Utara 14470 021 - 2986 6563 Opening hours: 10 AM-10 PM Dresscode: casual Average spending for two: IDR 300k WiFi: yes INSTAGRAM
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