Shiny Fish Galore

During a week when I had dinner at Miraku twice, Chef Hei sat up and prepped me loads of hikarimono fish for sushi. Hurrah!!! He knows I don't bother with tuna. I'm okay with negitoro, but I won't miss it. He has plenty of replacements for those anyway.

The other night at dinner at Miraku, I didn't want to have so much alcohol. It was a number of us at the counter and there were four bottles of sake drunk in total. Luckily the rest were in the mood to drink. They drank most of it. I only had three glasses of sake and managed to avoid having more. LOL 

Tonight at dinner with J, she wasn't going to drink since she just recovered from a long bout of flu. I felt like sake. I wanted more than 360ml but I couldn't do 720ml. Luckily there was an option for a 500ml bottle! Okaaaay. I finished it all by myself. Hehehehe. Though I did ask the chef to help me out with two glasses.

Hadn't seen J for months because she was damn busy at work, then flew out to Japan for weeks. I don't fully miss her since we chat loads over text. But it's always nice to see her IRL, and we had to celebrate her birthday too. We simply caught up where we left off. She had a bagful of goodies for me from Tokyo. Mmmmm. ONIBUS COFFEE BEANS!!!

I popped antihistamines, so I had no issues with crab and oysters. J was fine with tuna. In the sashimi platter, she had otoro. Mine was replaced as buri belly. It worked! Miraku's prices are holding reasonable since they don't smack you with a ton of otoro or chutoro. 

In a sushi omakase meal, I'd really like more shiny fish over tuna. Miraku does their shiny fish well, way better than other 'prestigious' Japanese restaurants in town. Loved the gizzard shard tonight. And of course a kinmedai was a must.

I enjoy the sushi here because it's tasty, well-balanced and not heavy on the wasabi. Importantly, Chef Hei cleverly goes down to 3g - 4g for the volume of rice. Even the ikura-uni rice bowl went little on the rice. Yayyyy! Nobody in my sphere could stomach that much rice anymore. I want to eat my fill, but not stuffed to-the-brim-comatose. Sushi rice kinda does that to me if I over-do it.