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Korusin
1 Jabotinsky St., D-Mall, Ramat Gan
Tel: 03-752 6222
Kashrut:
Rabbanurt Mehadrin
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Open
Sunday - Thursday 11:30am till 11:30pm. Friday till 2:00pm.
Saturday night till 11:30pm. Closed Shabbat. |
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was submitted by Jonathan Steiner.
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If you have been to Korusin, and are looking for a reason to head back, here are a few good reasons. The  restaurant has retooled its menu to include new appetizers and courses, and in addition they have also added a gourmet menu influenced by Chef Restaurants. So in other words, Korusin has now become a restaurant within a restaurant, and can truly boast a menu with something for everyone.
Korusin continues to be a popular restaurant. To give you a good indication of just how popular this restaurant is, when we entered there was a private party just finishing up. As we sat down the private room was cleaned, reset, and within a few minutes began to fill up again. The private room at Korusin seats up to 55 people so there is ample space to hold an affair.
This is a restaurant that is very good at what it does, so we were excited to experience the tastes and flavors that the new menu had to offer.
To start, the appetizers are all new. There are choices like Liver with Chestnuts, which is a good partnership of the Eastern European kitchen and the West. There are several salad choices. My wife and I chose the Salmon Sashimi, and the Spring Rolls. Sashimi is a Japanese delicacy consisting of thin slices of very fresh cured fish. The Salmon Sashimi came neatly arranged on a square plate drizzled with sweet teriyaki sauce, and garnished with crunchy roasted peas (a popular snack in Japan). The fish was velvety and soft, and the combination of textures between the fish and the peas was surprising and delicious. The teriyaki sauce was also very good though a bit overpowering at times.
The Spring Rolls, the non fried variety, are wrapped in thin rice paper. They were filled with Tai noodles, carrot, cucumber, radish, pepper, and seasoned with a bit of spicy mayonnaise. I have one word to describe them: spectacular. The vegetables were crisp and fresh, and the wrapper was soft, almost like a thin noodle. The sauce added just the right touch of flavor so that I did not even need to use the Teriyaki sauce on the side. I would recommend to anyone visiting Korusin, to try the Spring Rolls. Just writing about them more makes me want to order up a batch. Simply excellent.
For our main courses I wanted to order from the duck listing, but we were even more attracted by the new menu items. I had the entrecote, while my wife had the chicken steak which came with a side salad and mashed potatoes. My wife is a self-proclaimed mashed potato fiend so I was impressed when she devoured the creamy bowl of flavorful potatoes. The grilled chicken had great flavor. The salad was crisp and fresh. My steak was grilled nicely in a red wine sauce, garnished with roasted garlic, and came with a mound of rice. The sauce was a subtle yet perfect matched to the meat. It did not over power the steak in any way which was a huge plus for me.
We decided to split one of the new desserts because we were totally stuffed. The Pinapple Le?man came highly recommended, and it did not disappoint. This dessert consists of fresh pinapple cubes stir-fried with maple syrup, and poured over coconut ice cream. Outstanding. The service was excellent and, the atmosphere was warm and friendly. Check out the new menu at Korusin, and get reacquainted with an old friend.
Arthur L. August 06
Korusin Ramat Gan is the most beautiful restaurant in this chain and the only Korus restaurant outside Jerusalem. This is one of the very few quality Glatt Kosher Chinese restaurants in the Tel Aviv area, and the only one in Ramat Gan. Korusin Ramat Gan combines good food, kashrut and elegance, and is certainly one of the top restaurants in its class.
Kashrut:
The restaurant itself has the Glatt Mehadrin certification from the Rabbinate of Ramat Gan. The meat is under the supervision of Rav Landau and Rav Rubin, and there is a permanent full-time mashgiach on the premises.
The restaurant is a class act. The room is attractive. The waiters are formal, courteous and anxious to please. The tables are not crowded together, affording privacy and comfortable dining. We were there on a Monday night, normally a slow night, but the restaurant was busy, attesting to its popularity.
The Menu:
The menu includes the standard Chinese fare, plus many more exotic Thai and Japanese dishes, including sushi. There is a nice selection of fish and vegetarian dishes, including tofu dishes. The freshness of the ingredients is perceptible in all of the dishes. The portions are large and attractively presented.
I went for the more exotic dishes that I had not seen previously on Chinese menus. For an appetizer, I had the Kaw lau soup from the Chef's recommended section of the menu. The menu describes this soup as spicy, with noodles, coriander (cusbara), bean sprouts and soy. For a fee you can have the soup with a choice of meats ? chicken, beef or duck. I chose the chicken, and asked that they go easy on the coriander, which they did. The yellow-brown broth was rich and delicious and not at all spicy to my taste. It was filled with crispy bean sprouts and lots of bite sized chunks of chicken. It was both filling and very pleasant. My companion had the fried eggplant, a dish of crisp battered chunks of eggplant in a sweet red sauce that gave it a mildly fruity flavor.
We both enjoyed our main courses. I chose a hot spicy dish with Beef Capaw, also a Chef's recommendation on the menu. This is a concoction of thin beef slices and Chinese vegetables in a brown sauce flavored with chili, mint and garlic, served with a side salad. My companion had the trout in garlic sauce. A large fried trout fillet was presented on a large plate. The fish was covered in garlic sauce and pieces of onion. There was also a small side salad.
Between courses the waiter brought wet had towels. We liked this little touch. After the large and filling meal the dessert was hardly necessary. We are not big dessert fans, but since it is included in the fixed price dinner, we tried the fried banana and fried pineapple with maple syrup. These are served on very large and nicely decorated dessert platters with whipped cream and fresh fruit wedges. The Chinese tea was refreshing and a perfect end to a good meal.
One can order a la carte, but if you are going to have anything more than an appetizer and a main, it certainly pays to take the full dinner deals: dinner for two or three or more. Dinner for two at NIS 95 per person includes soup, two egg rolls, a main course, Chinese tea and dessert. This is a significant savings and quite large meals. There are a few dishes, like my Kau Lan soup, that raise the price a bit, but I thought that they were worth the extra few shekels.
Childrens menu is available. There is a private room for up to 25 guests.
Getting There:
Korusin is in the D-Mall on street level, facing Jabotinsky Street. The restaurant offers 2-hours of free underground parking in D-Mall lot. Mention that you are a Korusin guest when you
enter and present your slip at the restaurant. Take the elevator to the second floor and turn left.
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