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Omai is little up scale modern izakaya that you often see in new york. Think of it as quieter, classier and spacious version of Hanmoto with exceptional service.
Their temaki: hand rolls are what they are most known for but I find they are decent but also nothing to write home about. I only tried three rolls : tuna, uni and tamago. Tuna roll has deep fried bits so it has nice contrasting texture. However, i find tuna parts they used in the roll isn't the best parts nor freshest tuna. Thankfully it didn't have strong fish smell but it's mushy and pate like texture was quite disappointing. However, the biggest disappointment of the night was the uni roll. It's was simple uni roll but uni was very bitter and have absolutely no sweetness from the fresh uni. And I believe this plain small uni roll was charged somewhere around $13 or more. Tamago truffle roll was interesting. It has decent black truffle paste in it but the tamago they made was not exactly japanese style fluffy cake like egg roll. It was lack in pillowy texture with light sweetness that I enjoyed Japan. Will I order more hand rolls in a future? I might try other hand rolls to see if they come up with interesting combination but otherwise probably not.
While hand rolls are bit of disappointment, kitchen dishes are on much better side. I tried sunomono, soon dog, pork belly and bavette steak. I personally didn't enjoy sunomono and soon dog as much as I hope so. Sunomono is light refreshing zucchini noodle dish topped with sliced shrimps and octopus. The soup/sauce of the dish has very clean refreshing taste but with zucchini noodle, it was way too bitter and bland. Sweetness of shrimp definitely helped balancing the taste but octopus was flavorless and just over all unbalanced dish. Soon dog.. I had high hopes with this dish. I like soondae (Korean blood sausage) and European blood sausage. So I was very excited when I saw this on the menu. However, when I tried it, it was very disappointing. The outer of the sausage didn't have that crunchy or popping sensation of nice sausage shell and stuffing inside was bland. But it could work well if it had good condiments that can put everything together. But they only used regular plain ketchup and mustard that don't go well with the sausage and nor add any positive element to the dish. Although the bun was cooked to perfection, poor execution really destroy the potential of this dish. So till this point, I was bit disappointed with food at Omai. However, things took big turn with last two dishes: pork belly and bavette steak. I won't write too much of these two dishes. If you enjoy crunchy skin tender pork belly and extremely tender bavette steak with light kalbi sauce, these are must try. These dishes saved the night for me and I guarantee you these will do same to you.
Now about the service, I have absolutely no complain what so ever and this is very rare for me! I never expected to receive such an attentive and proper service from small place like this but our server delivered equivalent customer service like jacobs or canoe and I must say I was extremely pleased. My only complain is unusual slow service with food. Every dishes came out in a extremely slow pace. Luckily, I was with a good company to not get bothered by this but it was very very slow and the place wasn't too busy so I'm not sure why there was such a large time gap between each dishes.
Overall, I love the fact it's a little discreet cozy bar you can walk in to have a quality time with a great service. I'll come back again when I'm in a mood for chill night.
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