Thursday, February 5, 2009

Yuzu? I zu!

$60 omakase dinner at Yuzu (236 Adelaide St W, Toronto) not including tax + tip.

Courses:

  1. 4 piece amuse-bouche in wooden boxes: oyster + raw quail egg shooter, deconstructed crab claw, haddock fried in yuzu sauce, eel stuffed with burdock.
  2. Soup with shrimp dumplings (contains chopped shiso), shiitaki mushroom, asparagus, and lotus root.
  3. Presentation of aji (horse mackerel) on a bed of fried leeks, herb, with a tiny deep-fried crab perched on a bamboo leaf, surrounded by ice pellets and pebbles.
  4. A selection of tempura: eggplant, unagi eel, and shiso leaf.
  5. Sauteed black cod marinated in a mizo sauce.
  6. A tiny hot pot of shrimp, enoki mushroom, chinese cabbage and green onions.
  7. A selection of 4 slightly seared nigiri: shrimp with raw quail egg, + 3 others (most distintive was the octopus flesh which was carved as a tiny octopus with little tentacles).
  8. Vanilla ice cream with home-made strawberry jam and gelatinous cubes of seaweed.