Manmaruya, Beverly Hills | Yii Eats

Now that exams are over, it's time to blog! Today it's all about Japanese BBQ - Yakiniku. If you've read my posts from ages ago, you'll realise that I've been to the Beverly Hills Manmaruya before - read that post here.
I normally visit the Campsie store for my usual ramen, curry or sushi fix, but since my parents had taken the car, Jellybao and I resorted to going for BBQ!

The store still looks the same, nothing looks different. The only difference I think is the grill itself - it's not the typical J-BBQ one which is 'dipped' in. It is now your typical K-BBQ one with the massive ventilation pipe.
From memory, the menu at Beverly Hills has expanded extensively with a range of single-price izakaya dishes. Since we only had two people, and we intended to BBQ, we didn't order any of them - will try next time!

 

Being as indecisive as we are, we couldn't decide what to eat, so we opted for the mixed one - aka BBQ High Tea. It comes with three layers - veggies, meat and seafood. 

     

The veggies and seafood are set, but you can to choose two meats of your choice - other than the premium one. The veggies include capsicum, onion, pumpkin, mushrooms, corn and eggplant. For the first time in BBQ,  I managed not to burn the veggies! (ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!) Seafood plate includes prawns, oysters, mussels, scallops and squid.

Of the meats, we chose kalbi (beef ribs) and chicken (there's a long story behind how pork cheek turned into chicken, but anyway).
Whislt the beef was really good texture, the chicken had better taste. About seafood, I'm still confused as to what to do with the shell...do you put it onto the grill, or do you take the meat out?? so confusing....

Being the carnivores we are, we ordered an extra serving of pork. It was slathered in such a nice marinade - we loved it the most. I could eat just 3 plates of this!!!! (such a fatty...)

Also, for the rice-pot Jellybao, we ordered an additional mini Bibimbap (only for $5 and comes with miso soup) Although not as authentic as the ones from your local Korean restaurant, it wasn't bad, and it stuffed us to the max. We ended up mixing in the meat from the grill from it - so it wouldn't burn on the grill. 

All together, with some Ramune, it costed us somewhere in the $70 range - don't remember and I've lost the receipt already. Not bad for fully stuffing ourselves. 

However, you'll probably need to book, to avoid waiting for ages (BBQ-ing always takes ages).

Since the Beverly Hills store is not on Urbanspoon, the link below is the Campsie range (they don't do BBQ, only the usual Japanese food!)

http://www.manmaruya.com.au/