Kazunori omakase meal

Being locked up for so long made me want to eat. Of course I missed a lot of the fine dining restaurants that I asked that my birthday be spent on a omakase meal.. I have always loved watching sushi chefs work on the sushi table... 

The fine dining group in facebook raved so much about this kazunori meal and I had to try it

We got the 6,000 peso “basic” 15-17  course meal. ( depending on the mood of the chef ) There is also a 8000 and 10,000 peso meal which features more dishes

1. Ebi salad starter: seaweed , prawn, radish with a little onion vinaigrette. It was quite refreshing

We ordered sake to accompany our meal—-

2. Kampachi- amber jack- fresh and good

3. Koe- grouper. (So-so but still fresh)

4. Hirame- flounder.. quire similar to the amber

5. Otoro 

6. Salmon belly with ajitami (a kind of ginger). Ite was served piping hot. And was really good.

7. Mini Saito (the name of the chef) special- mixture of uni (sea urchin), otoro and ikura (salmon roe)

You need to roll it up into a cone like this.....

Perfect!

8. Sawara- Spanish mackarel

9. Butas ebi.. one of my favorites because I like crunchy things! And the head was so nice and crunchy

10. Tamago 

11. Otoro aburi 

12. Chawan mushi- upgraded version with uni, crab and ikura

13. Magura otoro- not one of my faves because i don’t like tuna in cooked form and it was like stewed

14. Unagi dish (yum)

15. Uso maki- otoro, egg pickle cucumber ( by this time i was already starting to get full)

16. Miso soup ( they told us this is the last dish... but)

17. Crab claw- the chef decided to give us a bonus) yummeh 

18. Highlight is the dessert, sesame panna cotta and coffee jelly. From the two I prefer the coffee jelly which really went well with the vanilla ice cream - the coffee jelly was really sharp coffee flavor. Just the way I like it - no added sweetness at all except for the vanilla ice cream ) I highly recommend this one when trying the menu.,

Some torching was involved too

It’s always fun to watch chefs work live. Although we initially thought we had a shorter meal.. the 6,000 price was just enough for us. We can’t imagine finishing the bigger set meal. ( the other couples with us were still eating when we paid and left ). If you are wondering what they had extra - i saw some snow crab legs that was torched and a scallop sushi . Other than that we had the same. It was really good but my tummy can’t stand a heavy meal during the night anymore... so maybe I’ll opt to get the heavy 10 course or more meal during lunch. BURP!