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2011-02-09
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Nadaman has always been my favourite japanese fine dining place in HK. The first time I had dinner here was a year ago on my birthday as a treat by my boyfriend. I was so impresed by the food and have been missing the 'clay pot boiled rice' that I had last time since then. This time I and my boyfriend decided to go back for dinner to celebrate my promotion.The highlights of Nadaman should be:- their menu changes from time to time to make sure only food that is of the season is featured in the
Nadaman has always been my favourite japanese fine dining place in HK. The first time I had dinner here was a year ago on my birthday as a treat by my boyfriend. I was so impresed by the food and have been missing the 'clay pot boiled rice' that I had last time since then. This time I and my boyfriend decided to go back for dinner to celebrate my promotion.
The highlights of Nadaman should be:
- their menu changes from time to time to make sure only food that is of the season is featured in the menu
- it goes without saying that the food is perfectly done. I can tell the chef has invested effort in choosing the way to cook each dish
- their kaseki is very delicate, uses only the best food of the season and always manages to give me a warm and touching feeling.
We tried their newly designed February kaseki set dinner. I think Kaseki is so attractive because they only have one or two pieces of each food such that you always feel like you have not had enough of it.
The first course was this tofu with sea urchin on top. The sea urchin was of course very fresh, very sweet with very meaty texture. Great! The tofu was not a simple tofu. It tasted much more chewy than plain tofu so we suspected that the chef mixed japanese rice cake with tofu to make this chewy yummy thing.
These three dishes were very refreshing. The one on the right top corner is some wasabi-made sauce mixed vegetables. I do not eat wasabi at all (I do not even add wasabi to soy sauce dip for sashimi) but i loved this dish because it had a very fresh hint of wasabi that was just enough to start our appetitide w/o giving out the strong choking taste of wasabi that I hate
Sashimi! None of the fish was the usual sashimi that we normally found in other Jap restaurants in hk... I believe the chef especially chose these three types because they were of the right season now! Very fresh and sweet taste~ yummy!
Hot pot seafood soup! The miso soup base was very clear and sweet! they have fish, shrimp, crab meat and fish sperm in this dish (one piece each). The best was the fish sperm thing - how should I describe it? imagine eating fish tummy (kua jia), just that this fish sperm thing was much more smooth and much more tasty. I just loved it so much! After I had a first bite, I couldnt help asking a waitress what that was. She nicely told us that it's the sperm of a type of fish and was only available in early spring . According to her, Japanese family loves to cook this as part of the new year feast.
Grilled japenses beef. ho yummy r~ each slice was very thin and had the right amount of fat such that when we put the meat inside our mouth, it just slided down our throat without much chewing effort. It gave a great beefy after taste and still not oily at all. I believe I had this same dish one year ago as well. I think this is going to be another dish that I will always miss~
Clay pot boiled rice! My all-time-favourite! I still remember last time I had this dish, right after I put the first bit of rice into my mouth, I was so impressed and felt so warm! The only difference was that the rice last time was cooked with small clam meat and this time it's cooked with bamboo shoots. Well both were great! The rice was very warm and had the right amount of moisture that each piece of rice was kind of stick to each other but nevertheless they were not clummed together - you could still taste each piece of rice but the texture was so soft!
Red bean soup with rice cake ball. The red bean soup was the sweetest red bean soup I had ever tasted. After having this spledid Japanese red bean sweet soup, I felt like all those Chinese red bean sweet soup that we had are not red bean soup at all! but anyway it's also a bit too sweet and too thick that I could not finish the whole thing.Anyway the whole night was very delightful, as perfect as I expected. I believe, in terms of food quality and service, Nadaman is definitely a fine dining place. However, one thing that is not at all satisfactory is the table arrangement. I must say the tables are too close to each other such that I could easily hear what the persons behind me are talking. This is probably something that is not acceptable for a 'fine dining place'. I think it could be a good idea if Nadaman can consider having a more spacious arrangement of tables to offer a more comfortable dining place for the customers.
But we will definitely come back for another special occassion! and in the meantime, I will be missing the clay pot boiled rice and the grilled jap beef~
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