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| - The now 4-6 month new Nobu in CP!! The largest one open in the country.... yay! We landed reservations after our show at the Mirage. Walking around and enjoying the leisure stroll was just perfect before our 10PM dinner.
Impressive!!!! Kind of steals your breath away to see how Chef Matsuhisa has fashioned his newest restaurant in the Empire (of the Rising Sun.. hehe). My Food&Wine mag arrived last month, and I brought it along with me for reading. His easy teriyaki recipe was being featured, and how perfect that I was now happening upon some awesome fish!!
Salivation commence. It was here I tried harajiki for the first time.
We took the reco of our Japanese server (cutie pie, with Japanese lilt) and ordered as she suggested: the hamachi sashimi with ponzu, jalapeno and cilantro. Heavenly. perfect balance. awesome. 5 or 6 petite slices. $28. we'd do it all over again and get another one (yah, right... only if we had won the jackpot).
Next we moved onto a lightly battered tempura rock shrimp size bowl with a spicy cream sauce over a bed of rocket($24). Though nicely battered and delicate, we didn't care too much for it. Better to have stuck to more raw stuff. Which we didn't...
As our next dish was the famed hamachi kama ($18) Course I did enquire about the MP for the toro kama. OUT! Not in from the fish market (Tsukiji?). so no go (no worries: we both still got to experience our first O Toro in roll form)
It was SOO DARN GOOD we just kept at it. The flavor... was awesome. Nice deep grill flavor, fish around the collar was super duper tasty, and fresh, firm, yummy. And with fresh young ginger to rinse off the palate in the form of slender pink sticks (harajiki), it was too good.
Then the masterpiece: a complete 6-8 piece cut roll of O Toro ($10).. the mighty blue fin! Did we feel some guilt? yes, we did. But did it melt and just sit like silk on the tongue?!! WHY YES IT DID!
loved the dinner.
Experience and ambiance a sure hit. Solid, fresh,Japanese food cooked right.
PS A long Chef's Table exists. spotted it when headed to the washroom.
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