Review Pelanggan untuk Aoki Japanese Cuisine - Hotel Gran Mahakam

Located on the basement of Grand Mahakam Hotel, Aoki provides both authentic and fusion Japanese dishes with private rooms available. Their yuzu tea was pretty good, tangy and refreshing without being too sweet.
📍Grand Mahakam
Service and Ambiance 8/10
Price $$$
🐈Worth to try

Jyu Jyu Steak (249k) 7.5/10
Served on top of sizzling hotplate, beef slices were juicy, tender, chewy, and just the right amount of smokiness. The stir fried bean sprouts were also charred nicely from the hot stones. Spicy, ponzu, and garlic sauces were provided as condiment but beef itself was already seasoned well. Sides also include miso soup and garlic rice.

Kuruma Ebi Maki (160k) 7.5/10
Another fusion roll with veggies inside and topped with inari and tempura shrimp. Love the contrast between the crunchy tempura and sweet inari.

Special Fresh Crab Handroll (109k) 7.5/10
Very unique roll made using soy paper (apparently they had to hand-carry it from Japan), which imparted a nice nuttiness to the roll. Filled with shredded crab meat and topped with diced tuna. Crab was nicely sweet and sauce on top was not overwhelming.

Shabu Shabu (649k) 6.5/10
One of their signature menu, Kami nabe refers to hotpot cooked using paper bowl. This dish reminded me of Kahyangan’s shabu. Broth was just plain dashi stock, with veggies meant to be dipped into the ponzu sauce (with radish, spring onion, and garlic as add-ins). Ingredients were all fresh and of high quality, including the striploin. For the beef, they provided another peanut sauce (goma dare). Pro tip: mix it together for nice creamy tangy sauce. Funnily enough, this was served with rempeyek (as an Indonesian twist maybe)?

Truffle Beef Maki (160k) 6.5/10
Mixed veggies roll with sliced beef and avocado. The truffle oil was quite strong. Tasted alright for me, similar to other fusion roll elsewhere.

Truffle Salmon Aburi (240k) 6/10
Nice fluffly rice top with torched salmon, pickle, and wakame salad. A bit bland as salmon was unseasoned and simply drizzled with a little bit of glaze. I couldn’t smell or taste the truffle at all.

Kani Salad (105k) 5/10
Crab stick julienned with cabbage, cherry tomato, slaw, and crispy fish skin, topped with mayo based dressing. A solid appetiser but the mayo made the salad quite heavy.

Ice Cream (75k) 7.5/10 for the matcha, 5/10 for the rest
Matcha: really good matcha ice cream, with that earthy and bitter flavour balanced lightly with some sweetness
Ogura: as a big fan of red bean I was very dissapointed by how sweet and milky this was. Could not taste the ogura at all tbh
Vanilla: standard vanilla

Es Tape Hijau (75k) 5/10
Standard es tape. Recommend to get the matcha ice cream instead.