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Chic Japanese restaurant offers impressive menu and service By?Nandar Aung ??|???Sunday, 22 June 2014 HYPERLINK /index.php/lifestyle/dining/10800-chic-japanese-restaurant-offers-impressive-menu-and-service.html \o View more services \t _blank 7 Places abound where you can eat your fill of sushi and sashimi, rice and miso soup. Or, if you want to experience real Japanese food, there’s always Kohaku. Photos: Thiri Lu Ensconced in the Chatrium Hotel, the restaurant – its name means “amber” – offers more than 100 exemplars of Japanese cuisine, superintended by Mr Hiroshi, a 10-year veteran at Chatrium. Though Kohaku has been open six years, it has recently been totally renovated in a melange of modern and traditional Japanese styles. The two Kiku – or “chrysanthemum” – private rooms can each seat eight diners. My two companions and I took our places in a 16-seat family room, in the company of 10 or a dozen Japanese fellow guests. The à la carte menu offers dishes priced between US$3 and $80, and warm or chilled sake at $12-150 a bottle. For those wishing to sample widely, I would recommend the Kohaku Deluxe Buffet dinner available from Friday to Sunday at $38 per person. The mildly oxymoronic A La Carte Buffet Dinner will cost you $35. Though we lacked the moral courage to tuck into the sashimi, fresh raw seafood, we gorged on tempura (crispy-fried) and teppan-yaki (grilled on a sizzling hotplate) delicacies, whether fish, meat or vegetable. Also available is the famed marbled Kobe beef and down-home sukiyaki, a bubbling hotpot. The full range of Western-style desserts includes coffee, tea, ice cream, fruit and appetising-looking cake. Between us, we chose snow fish, prawns, Japanese fish with eggs called shishamo, beef and assorted vegetables served teppan-yaki style, and fried salmon skin. We also enjoyed sushi, starting with California rolls, a tasty concoction of vinegar rice, meats, cheese, mayonnaise and salad rolled with seaweed) as well as hand-crafted nigiri s