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Start the night off right with a specialty drink. The Guava Shiso-Jito is Smirnoff Citrus, guava nectar, mint, and lime. This is the best spin on a mojito I’ve ever had. It’s a great drink to relax with. I can feel the tropical breeze just thinking about it. Thumbs up with 5 stars!\r
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“Let’s get it on” with the entrees. Morimoto Surf and Turf is Kobe sirloin, hamachi ribbons, avocado salad, and herbed potatoes. The sirloin is cooked to a rare perfection (or to your liking), sliced and sprinkled with salt crystals. The hamachi ribbons are tossed together with the avocado salad, and ponzu sauce. This is the best hamachi I have ever had. It was so fresh that it just melted in my mouth. The ingredients are perfectly matched in this dish. The potatoes are bite-sized and the cream sauce adds a silky goodness with the smooth texture of the potatoes. The best way to experience this dish is to eat it together, a bite of the sirloin, a bite of hamachi, a potato, and repeat. This very dish may have had a start on Iron Chef. Thumbs up with 5 stars!\r
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The Seafood “Toban Yaki” contains sweet prawns, scallops, king crab, bok choy, manila clams, oyster mushrooms, and citrus butter. This hot pot of deliciousness will satisfy your seafood craving and then some. While the seafood is cooked to perfection, the seafood broth that is a result of the cooking process is amazing in its own right. The mushrooms and bok choy absorb this broth which make them some of the best you’ve ever had. Thumbs up with 5 stars!\r
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Morimoto almost always made a dessert during his battles and his innovative ideas make it on his dessert menu. The Mary Jane Brownies are chocolate brownies with Kinako-Huromitsu ice cream, and candied hemp seeds. The brownie has a very rich chocolate flavor. The Kinako-Kuromitsu ice cream is very interesting. Kinako is roasted soy flour which is slightly sweet and nutty, almost tastes like peanut butter. The Kuromitsu is Japanese sugar syrup with means “black honey” in Japanese. It adds a nice sweetness to the ice cream, almost caramel in flavor. The ice cream is topped with chocolate cookie bark. The candied hemp seeds are a wonderful accompaniment and tasted like a nice, pulverized brittle. Order up a nice mocha cappuccino to end the evening right.
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