Most Japanese restaurants in Malaysia serve yellow-fin tuna from Indonesia which is inferior in quality and taste compared to blue-fin tuna. There are a few restaurants serving blue-fin tuna but they don’t import the whole tuna fish from Japan and instead they just purchase a small block of meat from the wholesalers. Robataya Izakaya restaurant serves very fresh blue-fin tuna dishes because we import the whole blue-fin tuna from Japan once a week.

The whole tuna arrives fresh from Japan and it is cut into sashimi by our experienced chef right infront of the eye of the diners. The tuna collar is also our signature dish because it can only be grilled using our “irori”. Other Japanese restaurant will find great difficulty to grill the tuna collar because the size is simply too big to fit into any conventional grilling equipments.