Stamina En is an authentic Japanese yakiniku restaurant with branches in several countries, including Thailand, where it has three branches: Thonglor Soi 10, Sriracha, and Nihonmachi Project, 2nd floor, next to K-Village, which is the branch I visited.

I ended up at this restaurant by chance. I was walking around K-Village and got tired of the restaurants there, so I walked through to Nihonmachi. I walked around looking at the menus in front of the restaurants, and there were several interesting ones. But I was hooked by the picture of the meat with marbling in the menu. As a meat lover, I almost melted when I saw it. I went for lunch on a Saturday and was the first customer at the table. But after a while, Japanese customers gradually started coming in. The restaurant has a yakiniku atmosphere, with a smoke extractor above each table. The stove is a charcoal stove that can accommodate about 70 people. When I sat down, they gave me a cold towel to wipe my face, eyes, and hands before I started eating. The plates, chopsticks, and dipping sauce were all ready (the restaurant also has a spicy Thai dipping sauce).

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Most of the menu items are meat dishes, with clear Thai labels. However, there are pictures of other cuts of meat around the restaurant that are not labeled in Thai. Out of curiosity, I had the opportunity to talk to the restaurant manager, who kindly helped me with the menu. I started with the items on the menu, starting with the side dishes. The kimchi (100 baht) was a bit salty for my taste.

Namuru is a seasoned vegetable mix (100 baht) similar to Korean vegetable salad. It is not often seen in Japanese restaurants. It is fragrant and delicious.

A mixed vegetable set (150 baht) to go with the meat.

The wakame seaweed soup (200 baht) will be a bit bland.

And the spicy Karubi Soup (260 baht) has a strong, spicy flavor that goes well with it.

Let's move on to the meat. I ordered the mixed sirloin (290 baht) first. This dish includes sirloin, tenderloin, and belly. I tried each piece individually, both with and without dipping sauce. After eating, I couldn't tell which part I had eaten because it was a mixed dish. Some pieces were tender, some were fattier, and some were tougher.

The first dish was delicious, but it didn't satisfy me, so I ordered the premium sirloin steak (880 baht). I saw a picture of it on the menu in front of the restaurant, and the marbling looked amazing. The steak was thick and just the right size, about 200 grams. As I mentioned in my previous posts, if I eat good quality meat that is sliced thinly and then grilled, I don't really see the difference. But if it comes as a steak, then I definitely feel the difference. This was a sirloin with marbling throughout the entire piece. It was available with either salt or sauce, and I chose salt because I wanted to taste the pure flavor of the meat. I cooked it on the grill just until the outside was done, and then I slowly and carefully put it in my mouth. As soon as it entered my mouth, I realized what "tender, melt-in-your-mouth meat" really is. If you love meat, I highly recommend this dish. The meat was incredibly tender and literally melted in my mouth. I can't even describe it. It was truly delicious. Compared to other restaurants, I think the size and price of this steak is very reasonable.

I tried dipping it in the chili paste. It has a spicy and salty Thai flavor, which is great. But I think I'll skip dipping it in anything else. Haha.

The seafood platter (580 baht) includes two medium-sized prawns, squid, and scallops. The prawns were fresh and had a good texture, and they were already peeled. The scallops were also large and bite-sized. However, the squid was a bit tough.

This marinated beef pot (360 baht) comes pre-marinated and is quite large. You can cut it into pieces yourself. There are a few vegetables under the pot. I put the whole piece on the stove and cooked it until it was medium-rare on both sides. Then I cut it into bite-sized pieces. This piece has some fat in the middle. It was very juicy and tender in my mouth. I ate it with the accompanying vegetables, which helped to reduce the richness of the sauce.

I'm worried that people who don't eat meat will be offended, because there's pork here too. And in the group that went to eat together, there were also people who don't eat meat, so I ordered pork too. All the pork here is from S-Pure, so it's definitely free of chemicals. Actually, if you only ate pork, you might not feel anything, but I had eaten tender meat in the previous bite, and then I had pork. I felt very satisfied that I had eaten meat, so I didn't go and compete with the group of people who don't eat meat. I started by ordering the pork belly (200 baht).

These two pieces of pork neck (210 baht) will be marinated in sauce.

Bacon (180 baht)

Pork neck (220 baht)

Pork and lamb sausage (160 baht)

The rest of the menu is not Chef Recommended, but it is the manager's recommendation instead. I asked the manager for his opinion on which other cuts of meat were interesting. I was very impressed with the meat here, and he started pointing to pictures that were posted around the restaurant, which were not on the menu and did not have any Thai descriptions. The first dish he recommended was Getakarubi (290 baht), which is meat between the ribs. This one will be marinated in a sauce that is different from the others, as the sauce will be mixed with chili, pickled ginger, and pickled garlic. The taste will be slightly salty and spicy. The manager recommended eating it with rice, which is Japanese brown rice that is new. The restaurant will then mill it themselves, using the restaurant's small milling machine. He said that rice that has been freshly milled and cooked is much more delicious. He challenged me to try it, but I'm not easily convinced. 55555 So I didn't try it, because I was too eager to taste the delicious meat. But in reality, Japanese people eat it with steamed rice, fragrant soup, and cold beer.

Another menu is Usu Rosu (260 baht), which is thinly sliced sirloin marinated in sauce. This is very similar to premium sirloin, but it is thinner and marinated in sauce.

And lastly, the Misuji (490 baht) is from the inside of the front leg. This part of the front leg usually has tendons, but they chose a part that doesn't have tendons and has some marbling. It's marinated in a sauce that makes me crave hot steamed rice right now. This set that the restaurant recommended is all marinated, but I couldn't fit anything else in. So I ate it with vegetables, which was just as delicious.

Free tea, sir.

Apple juice, another one is soda, I didn't take a picture of it 555

In short, I'm a meat lover who has tried a wide variety of meats (within my budget, of course). I've never tried a piece of meat that costs tens of thousands of baht, but I have tried several thousand baht pieces, ranging from ordinary Thai beef to premium Thai beef, ordinary foreign beef, and even specially selected foreign beef. This restaurant is another one that meat lovers like me really like and enjoy. Every bite I take is a delight, especially the premium sirloin. The meat is so tender, juicy, and literally melts in your mouth at an affordable price. It's not that I'm saying it's delicious and overpraising it just because it's Wagyu beef imported from Australia. Wagyu beef really has its own unique characteristics. It's a breed of cow from Japan, and whether it's Kobe or Matsusaka, it's Wagyu. They are raised on a diet of grains, unlike grass-fed cows, which have a slightly gamey smell. But Wagyu beef is incredibly tender, has beautiful marbling, and is truly odorless. My wife doesn't eat meat for personal reasons, not because of any religious beliefs. She wanted to try it because I couldn't describe the tenderness to her properly, so she asked for it well-done. When she tried it, she said it was very tender and melted in her mouth. Normally, she can't stand the smell of meat, but this time she was pleasantly surprised. She actually liked it.

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