I’ve never been one to trust people feeding me.
I knew at a very early age — specifically preschool — that I liked choosing my own meals. Because if I didn’t, I would be stuck with plates of peas and oyster shooters.
So the Japanese concept of “omakase,” which literally means “to leave up to,” isn’t one that I’m particularly fond of.
But when we saw that on the menu at the stylish Morimoto Waikiki, the restaurant opened earlier this year by Masaharu Morimoto at the Waikiki EDITION, we figured we should see what the Iron Chef (or at least his team) would put in front of us. (Plus, it was Morimoto’s birthday when we were there. Seemed like the right thing to do.)
And though we ordered a few other menu items — hey, I had to try the chef’s version of the loco moco! — the omakase was a great way to sample the restaurant’s array of dishes, and all for $110.
Here’s what we ate:
Outside Morimoto Waikiki
Morimoto Waikiki, Waikiki EDITION, 1775 Ala Moana Blvd. Hours: Breakfast, 6:30-10 a.m. daily; lunch, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. daily; dinner, 5:30-10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 5:30-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Phone: (808) 943-5900
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The pork ginger looks amazing. But $110? Holy cow. Or is it Holy Pig? I also hate Oyster Shooters…
It’s worth it when you figure we had seven or eight dishes. We coulda shared the omakase for sure. So it wasn’t too bad.
Oyster shooters, I pass.
For 7 or 8 dishes I guess that isn’t bad. Guess you better show up hungry to the max. I love just about every seafood there is… and in some of my international travels I’ve eaten some bizarre stuff, jellyfish comes to mind. But oysters are big here in the Carolinas and there are seafood houses that specialize in them. Count me out. When I was a kid my grandfather would wait for low tide and take a pocket knife, sturdy one, and a jar of Tabasco, and pry them first off the sound pier or wherever he’d find them. Shuck them right there on the spot, douse them and down them. I was offered the opportunity and it was the first, last, and only time I’ve eaten an oyster. Won’t even think about it.
You can pass the oyster shooters my way.
Nope, not that bad, right? It was a lot of food. I probably shouldn’t have ordered the loco moco — but I HAD TO!
Oysters. Too slimy. I don’t eat opihi, either, which is sacrilegious here.
Slimy is a kind description… more like gag reflex in a shell 🙂
Hello Cat, Happy fuud pixs Friday! Everything looks so guud! I thought you don’t eat raw fish?
pass the oysters here. i’ll eat them any way you got the. raw, fried, stewed in gumbo, barbecued…it’s all guud
Cat, you gotta win a Pulitzer so you can go to nyc on someone else’s dime and eat eat eat. morimoto’s across the street from del posto (mario batali’s 2 star joint)…la bernadin a couple blocks from some kick okole izakayas…I can just see the fuud friday post after that trip.
Looks so good. Will have to put this on my list for my next visit.