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| - I never write updates unless there's a change in rating and I rarely write them in the first place (3 including this one). But Hibiki is shattering my status quo because it's shattering my expectations! Time and time again, I am blown away by the type and quality of food offered at such reasonable prices!!
Came here with my SO and the Lobster Sashimi Set caught my eye. $98.99 for an extravagant 6-course lobster dinner for 2 seemed pretty reasonable to me. And it turned out to be more reasonable than expected, practically a steal!
1) Starter - Blue Fin O-Toro Carpaccio with Seaweed Salad. The flavour of the fatty tuna with a tiny bit of salty scallion was mindblowing. FYI the Tuna Lovers Sushi Set with 2 lean tuna, 2 Chu-Toro, and 2 O-Toro sushi pieces is $24.99. Here you get 6 pieces (3/person) of thick decadent O-Toro sashimi as part of a set that costs $50/person. You do the math.
2) Sashimi - This was actually two courses. One whole live lobster sashimi (shared) where the lobster was still moving. Doesn't get fresher than that and the meat had the most amazing texture and sweet lobster taste. Then came a plate of striped jack, sea bream, salmon, yellowtail, and sweet shrimp sashimi; thick-cut and tasting like it just jumped out of the sea.
3) Sushi - Seared salmon belly, fatty tuna with sea urchin, salmon roe with quail egg. Somehow, Hibiki created a sushi platter of literally all of my favourite things without even knowing me. The salmon belly sushi even had a slight sear on the rice. This was where I died.
4) Soup - Seafood broth in a beautiful earthen teapot. You pour out the broth into a tiny cup and sip it like you're drinking sake. It was so light, so simple, and took on the flavours of the tiny clam, shrimp, and fish meat inside. You can then eat the broth ingredients.
5) Appetizers - Grilled scallop, lobster roe steamed egg, butter baked clams. The flavour of the char on that giant scallop was unbelievable and the smell of the buttery and garlicky clams made my SO want to bottle it into a cologne. The highlight for me was the steamed egg though. Smooth with generous amounts of lobster roe (which is another one of my favourite things), topped with mushroom and citrus peel. How am I supposed to watch my cholesterol with something like that, Hibiki??
6) Main Course - Matcha Soba with lobster claw. This was alright to me. The broth was a bit too salty and the soba, though green, wasn't noticeably different from regular soba. There was a good sized lobster claw and other seafood in it though.
7) Dessert - The only other item that was shared. I think it was some sort of tofu pudding cake with almonds. It was creamy, not too sweet, and the perfect light finish to a pretty perfect meal.
This isn't your stuff-your-face-until-you-die AYCE but there's no denying that every pretty penny is WORTH. IT. And honestly, for this kinda quality, I don't think you have to sacrifice as many pretty pennies as you think you do. Of all the sushi places in Markham, seldom owned by Japanese people, Hibiki is at the top of the list, the cream of the crop, the top tuna. And as promised in my original review, I will continue to return again and again!
(4/100) - 2017
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