Our friends who we spent the afternoon with recommended BIZEN here in town for dinner and it was pretty much a hit. The menu is monstrous and we finally settled in and made some choices. We chose the YAKI HOTATE GAI which were excellent Grilled Canadian Scallops with a super dipping sauce and then the DUCK TERIYAKE which was a tad dry and tasted more beefy than ducky and was saved but its dipping sauce. The Meibo Yowanotsuki Junmai Ginjo Sake"Midnight Moon" was super with a cantaloupe flavor and a dry finish. We tried the Seaweed sampler salad with Hiyashi Wakame and Hijiki seaweeds, the former being the more familiar green slimy and longer seaweed with the latter being a black shorter and direr more earthy tasting seaweed.
While we really wanted the Kamala Mamala sushi roll it sounded a tad sweet with mango and coconut. Will chose the Ukranian Peace Dragon Roll of avocado topped roll iwth tuna and salmon wrapped with coconut shrimp tempura and eel. He loved it but said the slices were uneven with one quite large.
It was good but I adored my Eat Your Bliss Roll with tuna, salmon, yellowtail, eel, king crab, kale and masago fat roll in komu nori.
Will finished off with a Sapporo but I had the Hakkaisam Yukimoro "Snow Bath" Junamia Ginjo Sake which is aged in snow for years and tastes like a dream with a super smooth finish.
Off to bed for our flight home tomorrow after a great 2 days here.
