Took a chance on Jellyfish Sushi to check out their 'no-rice bread sushi'. Booked it at the last minute for a 6.30pm seating. I really didn't mind eating early so that I could have the rest of the night free and not finish up bedtime routines in a rush.
It was a set menu for this quarter. It was a tad weird, but it does work. It's not a menu I can eat often, but I'm at least not against it. Starters were perfectly fine in a trio of Hiroshima oysters with chilled minestrone dashi, and salmon 'maki' with no rice, and grilled anago. The shimesaba and stracciatella in seaweed was quite delicious. The kanpachi and salted lettuce worked. The madai carpaccio and pistachio was good. At this point, I sort of missed rice a little. The chefs brined and cured the fish pretty decently. The little bits of grilled items lent different texture and bite too.
We had a palate cleanser in the form of heirloom tomatoes. Then there was tuna, of which I accepted, but if I visit again, I'll request to skip all tuna items. For one, they use bluefin tuna (from Nagasaki), and they offered it as akami, chutoro and otoro.
We ended with a bowl of cold wakame ramen from Awaji Island. There were two accompanying dips — a cold asari clam potage and the standard roasted saba tsuyu. I ditched the potage. It was just weird dipping noodles into it.
Dessert was a matcha pudding with warabi jelly and Okinawan black sugar. I took two spoonfuls, blinked and left the rest. This type of dessert is really not my thing. I had the bottle of sake, and that would be a better choice of dessert for me. Yeah, we took a bottle along with the meal. But we didn't need to finish it. Nowadays, I'm not insistent on finishing a bottle of of wine or sake anymore. It's 720ml. If I leave a third behind, that's perfectly okay. I'd rather not wake up with a hangover.
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