The big snow solar term in 2022 happened to be the day when the epidemic was unblocked for a long time. It was like celebrating being released from prison. I came to Sushi Ji to eat Japanese food, 1580 yuan per person. Coincidentally, in 2021, it was also the big snow solar term. I ate at Kuroki, 3980 per person. Now Kuroki has reduced the price to more than 1,000 per person, but the price of Sushi Ji has not changed much.
The chef of our table is Master Rao Xiaoxin. Before the appetizer, we were shown all the ingredients in our private room tonight. We saw fresh snail meat, frozen tiger prawns, fresh tuna and sea urchin, etc., all placed in wooden food boxes.
The appetizer is a small dish of pickled cucumbers, pickled radishes, and pickled ginger shreds, which are used to eat seafood to relieve greasiness later, and can be added after eating.
The first soup is crab meat and yam balls with matsutake soup and shark fin steamed egg. Two hot dishes to settle the stomach, and then start the following seafood adventure.
The first seafood dish was shiso flower, sea urchin, and fish roe mixed with prawns. The sea urchin and shrimp were both very sweet. The second dish was grilled tuna fat, the third dish was grilled live Arctic scallops + snapper + tiger prawns and wasabi, and the fourth dish was abalone liver paste with black gold abalone. I licked the rich sauce made from abalone liver first, which was sandy and had the taste of sesame paste.
After four sashimi dishes, we started with two other hot dishes - steamed black fish with sweet and fresh soup; grilled fish with grated radish, which I couldn't eat anymore.
After two hot soups and hot fish dishes, we started the second round of five sashimi dishes, which were five kinds of fish sushi. Chef Xiaoxin's technique in making sushi was very good, and the sushis were not scattered in shape or spirit.
The main course was sea urchin, tuna paste, and fish roe mixed with rice. The sea urchin was so sweet that the fruits behind it didn't feel that sweet. The fruits were honeydew melon and matcha pudding.
Sushi Gokki has two other stores in Nanjing - Luming Gokki on the first floor of Hilton Garden Inn, which is also Japanese food; and Jishang Seafood on the fifth floor of Jumeirah, which is a seafood hot pot that is cheaper than Japanese food. It is said that Sushi Gokki is going to open a store in Shanghai. The fact that it can bring Japanese food from Nanjing to Shanghai shows the confidence of the Chinese Canadian boss in doing business. Think about it, since the epidemic, I haven't been to Japan for three years. A store like Sushi Gokki in Nanjing can more or less satisfy everyone's beautiful imagination of Japanese food.