Lunch at Miraku

I got a splendid lunch treat at Miraku from J! We literally booked this a month in advance because seats are limited and obviously we had to find a common date and time. Oof. We took the 11.45am slot because we have no issues with having lunch early nowadays. We're flexible that way. I tried very hard to convince J to go Dutch for this meal, but she was having none of that. She insisted that it was my birthday gift. Okaaay, I happily accept this then. 🍣🖤

I haven't dined at Miraku for a long time, so I was pleased to be here again. Opted for the S$88++ omakase lunch set. 11 pieces of nigiri sushi was more than sufficient to fill the stomach space at lunch. There'll be standard fish, and it also depends on what is in season. Chef Hei preps his sushi with loads of variations; they're such tasty little morsels. In addition, there were an anago temaki and a small ball of uni-ikura rice, and a substantial dessert platter to end the meal with. If you're still hungry, they offer add-ons of negitoro-don or some ikura-uni-don. But that will be a lot of rice, and I definitely don't want to fall into a food coma. 

Chef Hei's local take on sushi is fun. I enjoy his creations, which are significantly different from the older generation of local sushi chefs. He has improved tons since the first few times I went when he first opened Miraku. Today, he checked in with us on our allergies and accommodated our requests — mine for no scallop or prawns (i.e no shellfish), and J's for no beef in her portions. He swopped out our food items accordingly, and the replacement items were creative and still tasted great. 

I was very impressed by the chawanmushi. It was a soft melty cup that held onions for mine, and scallops for J. The botan ebi head in the soup became a fish paste ball in mine; and the final item of beef-wrapped uni rice became a wide piece of tuna for J. Nice! Next time when I visit, I might request for no tuna either. LOL I would happily eat all the shiny fish that he has in stock, or whatever he can prepare. 

I already had sugar in the form of all the sushi rice, and a glass of umeshu. But I ate everything on the dessert platter. I was just rather pleased that it wasn't mochi. Hahaha. The platter held small and cute portions of satsuma mandarin, tsubu-an, yubari and genmaicha ice-cream. What a lovely luncheon!