Thanks for the pics!
I spy in the 2nd pic, Kubota, Hakkaisan (not to be confused with Hakkasan haha) Junmai Ginjo (brown bottle), Kikusui (top shelf on the right). Above the Hakkaisan Junmai Ginjo, not sure, but similar font to the likes of Ichiro or Dewazakura. Whatâs amazing to me are the three+ bottles on the leftâŚDassai Beyond. SF NorCal retail is $750 (though one place charges $1500 for it dine in).
What is the item in the bowl with the nori shreds on top? Yamakake?
The next trioâŚthe left looks like hotaru ika okizuke, the one in the middle⌠looks like a wriggly ika shiokara, but what is the item that is quite brie cheese looking? The black stuff in the bowl, squid ink sumi ika? Good sake food!
Also curious, what is that last pic? Iâm not going to guess, lol.
(I admit - Iâm getting a bit lazy with this format - Iâll try putting some text/explanation with my pics in my future posts. So much for âone picture is worth a thousand wordsâ - yeeshâŚ)
The Dassai âBeyondâ is a dream (come true?) at $950 a bottle. Funny (but true) trivia from boss Jun: Kinjiro sells more Dassai âBeyondâ than any other restaurant in the greater L.A. area⌠(And rumor has it that itâs all pretty much one guy drinking it night after night! Iâm looking at you, Porthos.)
The bowl with nori shreds is their chilled housemade tofu with chilled dashi.
The trio is Kinjiroâs near-famous Sake Accompaniment Trio: Soy sauce-marinated firefly squid, fermented bonito guts with cream cheese, and squid ink-marinated flying squid from Hokkaido. And yes, it was âbeyondâ good sake food!
Last photo (sorry for the crappiness) is the black sesame mousse with kuromitsuâŚ
drooling over that foie
Actually itâs not me but he is there every time we are there with his GF.
Whoâs fucking there ???
Cute gf ???
He was dining at KaGaYa during my Kinjiro meal that night.
âThe Patron Saint of Honda Plazaâ, I think Iâll dub himâŚ
Sheesh JL, Porthos.
I already live vicariously through your visits to these baller places. But now you have to help me out againâŚ
How great is the $950.00 bottle of Dassai âBeyondâ Sake?
Iâve had the âlesserâ Dassai bottles before (far cheaper).
I guess ultimate baller is bringing a couple bottles of Dassai âBeyondâ w/ Corkage ($2,000) at an evening at Urasawa ($400+)!
Take some pics and report back for us!
Yup Hotaru ika okizuke is the soy sauce marinated firefly squid, dope stuff. Bonito fermented guts would be katsuo shuto é ç, definitely a match maker with sake! The cream cheese seems like a wicked combination, and even Brie might work with that (or a firm burrata haha to counter the saltiness). Nice!
$950? Not too bad of a markup then, nowhere near as DBaggy as that NorCal place that charges $1500 a bottleâŚ
No, the ultimate balling is not with Dassai Beyond (which Wallyâs has for $774.99), but with
Zankyo ćŽéż SUPER 8 by Hakurakusei (their lower level affordable Junmai Daiginjo is served exclusively on Japan Airlines domestic flights, and is very good with a 40% milled ratio)
and wow Wallyâs has it too:
http://www.wallywine.com/p-97469-zankyo-super-8-jdg-720ml.aspx
The polishing ratio is done to an astounding 8%. (Dassai 23 milling is 23%), although Iâve heard of another bottle where it beats it down to 7% (and that is just ridiculous!)
But thatâs not the most expensive sake at Wallyâs, itâs actually this Junmai Ginjo
http://www.wallywine.com/p-100532-nikata-n-jg-720ml.aspx
I must say, for a wine shop based in SoCal, this place has some very interesting semi obscure yet high end choices!
is it as great as being drunk as a japanese skunk on 100 dollar sake with 800 bucks in your pocket for later? i got a friend that operates a club in hollywood where they are routinely opening bottles of champagne that cost tens of thousands of bucksâŚgreat if your not paying but i gotta say it is a literally guilty pleasure for me.
Depends. Dassai is an excellent sake all round so this super high end one should be good. I personally have not tried it and probably wouldnât have it with an izakaya meal where a nice Daiginjo will suffice. But who am I to say how others should spend their money even if they worked like a dawg for it.
They say the Super 8 can go for $3000 at some establishments (not retail) with the markup, where Hollywood types have no problem indulging in that.
But very true, itâs like celebs and stars pouring Louis Roederer Cristal on bikini clad women swimming in the stuff. I suppose Dassai Beyond is nothing compared to that for that crowd.
Theyâre making sangria in China using '82 Lafite-Rothschild. A crazy world we live in.
are they really ???
Not surprising.
Apparently they also make counterfeit bottles of Suntory Hakushu 12.
Easy to catch if you can read⌠instead of ç˝ĺˇ, it says ć˝Žĺˇ (Chiu Chow/Teochew).
ok so how good is this place? I was having a solo lunch at Mori a few weeks ago when one other customer who was clearly a regular as all the staff and Maru-san knew him by name started talking about Kinjiro. They all seem to rave about it so now iâm curious.
Go.
Currently, they close on Monday and Tuesday. Starting February, they will close on Sunday and Monday. If you do go, make sure you get their Brussels Sprout Chips. Very delicious and addicting.
the pork belly kakuni + ochazuke combo is probably the perfect el nino pre-drinking snack right now:
h/t first we feast
iâm still not convinced the beef tongue/a5 wagyu are must-tries, but they are certainly popular enough.
here, itâs better to treat everything as drinking food, not just the fermented fish guts. eat smelt, chug shochu, grilled dried squid, def down shochu. and on, and on.