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| - Modern-glitzy, snazzy, fun vibe, fab sushi, cool omakase, pricey, super service. These adjectives pretty much sums up Morimoto's in Las Vegas, located inside the MGM.
As a party of 5, we had an opportunity to try a good variety of their signature dishes, along with their omakase ($140.00/pp). If you love omakase, but your dining companions don't, no need to fret. Just come here! Why? Because this is one of the very, very, very rare restaurants that doesn't require that the entire table goes omakase. In fact, only one person in our table, a 13-year old, no less, opted for the omakase.
Some of their signature dishes we tried were:
Hamachi Tacos - Perfect! I could've eaten all 5 of these mini tacos all by myself. Ok, so I'm getting ideas now for my next visit! Lovely chilled hamachi paired perfectly with the crunchy, fresh tortilla, and just the right amount of avocado and jalapeño peppers.
Oysters Foie Gras - super fresh, fleshy, with uni and foie gras. Say yes to the oysters!
Sticky Ribs - served bone-in. This was probably my least favorite, but lauded by the waiter as one of their most popular dishes. Overly sauced, for my personal taste.
Deep fried shrimp served 2 ways - in a wasabi sauce, and the other was in a light red sauce with a hint of Korean flavoring, but can't recall the official name. It also came with a homemade buttermilk dip. The tempura-like batter held up well, and retained its crunchiness, as this was just lightly coated with their respective sauces. Even as this dish sat a while, uneaten, as we were devouring the other delectables, it's crisp crunchiness held up, amazingly.
Fried Rice with Hamachi - Rice itself was a tad saltier than it needed to be, but the star of this dish was really the fish, which was cooked at the table by searing it against the sides of the searing hot iron pot. Wow! The fish turned out so incredibly moist and flaky. I wish they had this dish with just the fish, sans the rice.
We also ordered a huge sushi combo, which consisted of something like 35 pieces. Slices of fish were exceedingly fresh, fleshy and sliced in generous portion sizes. One disappointment, however, was that we weren't informed that the 35-ish piece count included rolls and tamago (small chunks of scrambled-like eggs). This seemed a little disceiving.
The omakase was very plentiful and artistically presented. Some of the dishes included lobster, tartare, A5 slices (ooh so tender), a seafood bouillabaisse-like dish, and a beautiful 6-piece sushi platter. Check out my photos. One of the best parts of this pre-set omakase menu, though, was the chocolate bomb dessert it came with. Ooh, a most impressive presentation when they poured a fiery liquid on top of the round chocolate ball, and melted it, causing the chocolate ball to ooze out a liquidy chocolate center. If I could order this dessert separately, I most certainly would!! Plus, it tasted even better than it looked, and it looked pretty darn good! Trust me here!
Speaking of desserts, I'd be up for coming back just for the desserts alone. The doughnuts were perfectly fried, and uniquely presented in a cone, with a round plastic ball filled with pastry cream. You squeeze the plastic cream filled ball to inject the cream into the doughnut. Voila, you've now made your own cream filled doughnut! This was good!
If you're up for going all out for a nice dinner on the Strip, Morimoto's would be high on my list. It's definitely the antithesis of an inexpensive teriyaki bowl dinner at your local quaint Japanese neighborhood spot, but sometimes you just gotta live and enjoy to the fullest. Do that here!
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