Dinner tonight was at Himitsu. A great meal was had. Wonderful service from Luis.
Started with the shrimp and veggie spring roll.
So crispy and on top of a delicious sauce made with soy and coriander.
Next was pork dumplings.
These were pan fried and crispy on the outside, but delicate and so flavorful inside. And the sweet plum sauce complimented the savory filling. If we hadn't more food coming, I think I could have just had these. They were so good.
Then the sushi arrived!!
From left to right we had a spicy tuna roll, spicy beef roll and the dragon roll. Of the rolls, the dragon roll was my favorite with well fried shrimp, avocado and mango!! Sweet, savory and crunchy!!
Then we also had orders of tuna, salmon and octopus sashimi. This was my overall favorite of the sushi platter. Rolls are okay and you can find good combinations, but fresh fish, by itself is really what you crave when you have sushi. And it was all very tasty. I don't know where they source it from. The salmon was some of the best I have had as well as the octopus. The tuna was tasty, but I have had better at Unico 2087 and Sandal Ochi. The knife skills of the sushi chef also needed a bit of work. Or maybe his knife needed sharpening. Thin sliced fish always tastes better.
For main dishes, we had the crispy duck with housin in a pancake.
This was a remarkable dish. I believe they made duck confit, shredded it and then deep fried it. Each delicious morsel had the savory note of duck along with that crispiness you crave from the skin. And the pancakes were almost like the soft buns they have in Chinese BBQ Pork rolls. Such a great dish.
Also had the pork ramen bowl.
While the pork was a bit overdone and dry, the broth more than made up for that. It was spicy but not overpowering. And the ramen had a perfectly poached egg along with shitake mushrooms and other veggies. A really satisfying ramen bowl.
We also received one more starter when our mains came. This was the spicy noodles salad and my least favorite dish.
The sauce was really tasty, comprised of soy, sesame oil and lime. And there were two pieces of tender spicy beef. Where did it go wrong? The noodles. They used glass noodles and they weren't cooked enough for me. Where you needed the noodles to help sop up some of the sauce, these weren't up for the task. They were crunchy when they should have been more al dente.
Dessert as the coconut rice pudding and the tempura ice cream.
Both were okay. The pudding desparately needed more coconut flavor. The tempura ice cream needed a crispier outer shell. Fried ice cream is hard to make since you have to have the ball of ice cream frozen solid and then have your oil hot enough so the tempura batter will seal and crisp up in just a few seconds. Here it seemed to soak up too much oil. Not a bad tasting dish, especially with a rich chocolatey sauce. Just could have been elevated a bit.
Highly recommend eating here. So many great dishes. If you come with a group, you will be able to try more things then my wife and I did.
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