Kiwami BGC: Review

Kiwami is a Japanese food hall found in BGC and a few other locations in the Philippines

Inside you'll find four Japanese restaurant; Hannosuke, Hachibei, Ippudo and Yabu

All specializing in their own area; Ramen, Tendon, Yakitori and Tonkatsu

Ordering

At the table, you'll find a QR code you can scan, to get the menu and the waiter will provide a paper, where you cross off what meal you want. The menu covers all four restaurants, where you can mix and match as you want

After you're done filling out your order, you flag down a waiter and they'll repeat your order. Which I'm glad they did, as what I selected didn't match what the waiter was reading. I was just going by the codes, but the waiter informs they don't always match the menu and we have to go by the name

Food

After about 15min, the noodles arrived and around 30min the katsu and grilled sticks arrived

For set meals from Yabu, you'd normally get unlimited refills on rice, miso soup, fruits and salad

Because of the pandemic. They're currently not offering unlimited food refills and the staff informs that they hope to be able to resume it soon

Drinks and desserts

They also have fruit shakes. Kids tried the watermelon and they all loved it

Something these restaurants by themselves normally don't offer and unique to Kiwami, is ice cream. Here they offer what they call Hokkaido ice cream

You can get it in a freshly made cone or in a cup, with either pearls or pudding toppings. We went for in a cone and it looks really good

Being an ice cream lover, I was disappointed. Kids was happy for the ice cream, but the oldest also also didn't like the ice cream itself, but said the cone tasted very good

Verdict

Normally these restaurants alone have a very narrow selection, as they all have specialized in one area. But when you get Hannosuke, Hachibei, Ippudo and Yabu under one roof. You suddenly have a decently wide food selection

One thing you might expect to find in an Japanese Food Hall, but believe it or not. You won't find it here, is sushi

The food is high quality and delicious, no matter what restaurant you pick. It can be a bit hard to get the waiters attentions at time, but you'll have a great experience all in all

Our verdict: Check it out