(Hong Kong – December 23, 2008) – Glamorous Japanese restaurant WasabiSabi in Times Square is serving a sensational warming winter sake dinner from February 1-13, 2009.
Priced at HK$798, the home-style dinner designed by executive chef Tatsuya Iwahashi will match unique seasonal ingredients with rare high quality sakes.
A selection of appetizers begins the dinner including baked sablefish with buckwheat and green tea soup, tomato and mascarpone salad, rice vinegar marinated mackerel 'battera' sushi and slow-baked oxtail – all served with a 'Yamahai-style' Masumi Nanagou No. 7 (Junmai Daiginjo) sake distinguished by its well balanced acidity and delightful contrasts – light, complex and fragrant.
The second course will combine sashimis of minced fatty tuna with avocado sauce, giant botan prawns with spicy yuzu sauce and home-made smoked salmon with Dassal 39% polishing (Junmai Daiginjo), which has a graceful aroma and well rounded flavour better matched to seafood dishes.
A delicious main course of pan-fried Angus beef with burdock sauce and taro fried rice will be best enjoyed with the well matched Rihaku rose sake, a new style of sake emulating Western style rose wine – light and crisp.
Dessert of hot red bean pudding and chest nut ice cream is complimented by a home-made plum wine brewed for 19 months by Chef Iwahashi from a family recipe handed down from his grandmother.
Sometimes called the “drink of the Gods” by the Japanese, sake is not a wine, nor is it a beer or a spirit – rather it is a unique type of fermented alcohol. Good sake goes very well with food, especially light dishes, such as fish, chicken, pasta, and the more premium the variety the more versatile the mix of cuisine can be. The WasabiSabi sake tasting dinner is the perfect opportunity for novices or sake-pros alike to enjoy an introduction to good quality sake paired specifically for taste with top quality seasonal ingredients.
The unique home-style dinner will be served from 6pm onwards from February 1-13, 2009. All prices subject to a 10% service charge.
About WasabiSabi
Behind a glowing red glass façade, on the 13th floor of Times Square is WasabiSabi - easily one of Hong Kong’s sleekest and most glamorous Japanese restaurants
Located in the heart of bustling Times Square, WasabiSabi takes diners on a myriad of journeys both culinary and social. The restaurant was the first in Hong Kong to use communal tables, booth and lounge areas set beyond a sleek under lit catwalk glassed with red façade and glass teardrop lighting.
On one side on the runway, unique seating features C-shaped booths that swivel around for privacy and the other side, the plush red velvet “Lipstick Lounge”.
For private parties, booths can be turned to face each other -- while the centre of the restaurant is dominated by two chic communal tables accommodating parties of 40 or more. Behind the communal tables are more intimate tables for two, a 12-metre long sushi bar and private tatami dining room for groups of up to 16.
Despite the cutting edge design WasabiSabi’s Japanese roots are well respected and this provides a great platform for high quality creative food in a modern design setting.
Appealing to both the palate and the eye, modern signature dishes include Taraba crab and uni tempura with crab roe miso dip; Home-made sesame tofu; Smoked eggplant wrapped in rib-eye fillet; and Carpaccio of sea bream with fresh wasabi red tea jelly and uni fried rice. Traditional favourites such as shioyaki, robatayaki, sushi and sashimi are also incorporated, flown jet-fresh from Tokyo’s Tsukiji market.
WasabiSabi is at Shop 1305, 13/F, Times Square, Causeway Bay.
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For reservations please call (852) 2506 0009
Restaurant opening hours:
Lunch: 12 noon – 3:00pm
Dinner: 6:00pm – 12 midnight
All prices above are subject to 10% service charge.
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