ADELAIDE: Ramen & Izakaya Himeji Degustation/Kaiseki 3 - Annie's Birthday

I was just uploading pictures from my phone onto this laptop, and I sudden feel so stressed. I think I've finally realised how slack I've been the past months. Either that or I'm travelling and eating more than time permits me to update ooops.

Yesterday was Annie's BIRTHDAY ! And so Ha Lu, Annie, myself and Nick decided to have the Himeji degustation.

So we've had this meal a couple of times already ( our previous blog post - Degustation 1, Degustation 2 )  and everytime we are just super blown away. Chef Ikeda ( the Japanese father I've never had) always puts in extra effort to make sure we are well fed and we have fun.

The Himeji degustation cost $120 per person, which is what we've always paid in the past. But because yesterday's a special day, we told Chef, create a menu for us that cost $150 per person kudasai!

Chef knows that we love eating Sushi, and hence he created this special Sushi Kaiseki for us. He is also very considerate - to be honest the last few times we ate here, we could not make out most of the menu ( because we don't read japanese what..... I sorta knew what we were eating la, thank you chinese characters but I wouldn't be able to tell you the specifics )

And I know Chef has been brainstorming about our meal for a few days because when I went to have lunch on Weds at Genki Sushi ( Chef's other restaurant) he told me " Are you coming Sunday? I am thinking alot about sushi Kaiseki". And when I went to have lunch again on Friday, this time at Himeji, he again told me how he was thinking alot.
I really appreciate !!!

Menu for the night ! Chef said that he sourced some of the ingredients from Tsukiji market, Tokyo, and got it flown in ! I'm so touched now just thinking about it.

Starters: From top left: Grilled kinmedai fin, yuzu sorbet, bamboo shoot, slow cook abalone with liver sauce and ponze, miso toothfish, ultimate spoon ( toro, oyster, scallop, ikura, uni, scampi, avocado, cucumber, tosazu jelly)

 A close up of Ultimate spoon!

 Sashimi:
From top left :geoduck clam, mayura station wagyu,  paradise prawn
middle left:swordfish toro,basgropper ( aya as the kyushu people call it), kinmedai toro
Bottom left: Kingfish, Salmon and ikura, Golden cuttlefish and tasmanian uni

 And our sushi course !
I was so impressed with this because Chef specially came into our room and served us Japanese style - piece by piece.

We were so excited we kept taking pictures of the " Chef station"

My head somehow looks really out of proportion here :/ But anyway, this is me playing kitchen/trying to pretend I'm a sushi chef. 

The REAL sushi chef

Slow cooked abalone

Black fin Toro 

King Salmon

Tuna

Scampi

Kinmedai 

Anago

 Basgropper

Pike conger

Tasmanian uni

Swordfish toro 

Kingfish

Ikura

I devoured my scallop/hotate too quickly ooops. I forgot to take a picture

 Uni chawanmushi with fish and chicken and ginko nuts

 Scampi miso soup 

Dessert plate 

I really enjoyed this dessert plate as compared to previously because there were too many desserts in the other one!  I remember from past experience I would be so full but i would force myself to finish most of the dessert plate because I feel so bad leaving food behind

From top left: Shiso ice cream + Chest nut ice cream + wagashi with red bean

Bottom left: Red bean soup + red bean cake I think

We were so so so impressed. It was SO GOOD. I can't even describe it any better.


Ramen & Izakaya Himeji
22 Grote street Adelaide
Close every Tuesday
Friday 11.45am -2.30pm
Monday - Sunday 5.30pm - 9.30pm

ADELAIDE: Ramen & Izakaya Himeji Degustation/Kaiseki 2

As per our previous post on Himeji's degustation ( click here), we were so impressed we were gonna make it a monthly affair.
We... returned back 2 months later, BUT we did introduce Nick's brother and sis in law to it and they tried it 1 month after we did heheh.

When I posted the meal on instagram, my good friend Roger immediately said " LETS GO NEXT TIME"
We finally found a good day to return after both of us returned from our respective annual leaves and busy hospital schedule. Nick and Nick's brother came along as well. It also so happened to be on the day of our JULY payday :D

We love how Chef Ikeda always changes the menu so we don't eat repeated dishes

Starters: From left: duck, mayura station wagyu, oyster shots, tofu, egg rolls x2, ?daikon

Sashimi platter

Eel soup

 Mayura station wagyu, Fish, Anago

Seafood Shabu shabu 

Sushi in broth

Otoro with truffle - this sealed the deal. If you offer me this with ANY deal, if it's not a ridiculous transaction, I will definitely say yes.

Dessert plate

Ramen & Izakaya Himeji
22 Grote street Adelaide
Close every Tuesday
Friday 11.45am -2.30pm
Monday - Sunday 5.30pm - 9.30pm

ADELAIDE: Ramen & Izakaya Himeji Degustation/Kaiseki 1

Nicholas and I have always wanted to try the degustation every since Himeji opened. But you know how both of us are like, we are super passive, if nobody organises anything, nothing gets done. So we just keep pushing it away away away until one day when Ha Lu got into Radiology training, I told Nick, THIS IS IT. We are going to have the degustation with Annie and Ha Lu.

And it turns out, Himeji has been in business for a couple of years now already but NOBODY has gone for this degustation before :o
Chef Ikeda ( the Japanese father I've never had ) was super excited ( he trained as a kaiseki chef ) and so were we !

We had this meal on 12th May 2018...when my hair was still long lol

Appetiser !

From the top left: some ball?, some alcoholic drink, oysters

Bottom left: Fish, Anago in Yuzu, Duck breast

Our sashimi course - from left: Some white fish, salmon, scampi, uni, meguro chutoro otoro, nanyang kinmendai

Fish Soup

Mains: From top left: Salmon, Mayura station wagyu, Cucumber and mushroom, Nanyang kinmedai

 Tempura: Asparagus + Sushi roll

Rice and soup

Dessert plate

I'm just looking at what I wrote on my instagram and it says " can't believe we waited so long to have our first kaiseki meal in Adelaide! we enjoyed ourselves so much we are probably gonna make this a monthly affair "

Ramen & Izakaya Himeji
22 Grote street Adelaide
Close every Tuesday
Friday 11.45am -2.30pm
Monday - Sunday 5.30pm - 9.30pm