Shinjuku Restaurant with MyDeal coupon

After the 5-hr hike in the morning, both of us were exhausted. For dinner, we went to this Shinjuku Restaurant where I had bought the voucher months ago. Was looking forward to a nice Japanese meal BUT....

Shinjuku Restaurant, located at Jalan Chow Thye

It actually looks quite cozy from the outside, but when I saw wooden statues of elephants at the entrance, I was like hmm....??

The interior was nothing Japanese-like... and I really don't like the table cloth

I looked at their menu, and then looked at the pictures of the Thai King on the wall: it confirmed my thoughts - the owner must be a Thai and this restaurant does Thai, Malaysian, Chinese and Japanese food. Uh-oh...not a good feeling...

We amused ourselves by taking random pictures

Since I bought the voucher, the dinner was pre-set. We're supposed to get a total of 13 items (which I don't remember now), including the green tea. Although I was pleasantly surprised at the sake (because I don't remember what I should be getting!), it tasted rather bland. The chawanmushi was ok, ALL of the sushi were terrible though - the rice was cold and hard and tasteless. The yakitori was too sweet, the shisamo and unagi tofu (both not pictured) was not good, even Ping2 who never complains about food said they were bad.

Our nabeyaki ramen (kimuchi soup) tasted nothing like kimchi...

All in all, this was THE worst experience I've ever had with food where EVERY dish failed! It was a very disappointing evening for us, but especially for me because I had been looking forward to it for a while. DO NOT recommend this restaurant. I think they tried to do too many different cuisines but ended up having none of them outstanding. Money wasted.