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If beef is pleasure for your palate, Kin Gyu might be your portal to paradise: This new Japanese restaurant promises KL's most extensive bovine menu, with close to 100 wagyu dishes, from steaks to stews to sliders, beef sashimi to beef sushi, hamburg to hot pots. Even the setting is distinctive, comprising 24 purely private rooms designed to evoke Japanese summers, each holding two to 16 patrons; it's a hidden first-floor restaurant, so look up for its namesake - a golden bull's head, hand-carried from Japan - to mark its location, across the street from its Yokohama-born founder's other eateries, Shin Nihon and Toridoki ; many thanks to the team here for having us. Kin Gyu's kitchen brigade is huge, helmed by several Japanese chefs, with inspirations that stretch far beyond Asia. The wagyu tartare (RM50) brings together France and Japan, showcasing chopped raw Japan-origin beef with house-made miso paste for deep dimensions of umami, sprinkled with salmon roe and b...