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Be treated to the finest Japanese delicacies at this Ngee Ann City fine dining mainstay
Walking through Mizuki’s interiors will tell you all you need to know about the restaurant’s culinary philosophy. A central corridor is walled by traditional koshi (wooden lattice) screens, intricately carved with cloud motifs that took a Kyoto craftsman two months to complete. It perfectly separates two bar counters, where respective sushi and tempura masters work their craft. Standing in the middle, surrounded by elegant, textured Japanese art, there’s a distinct, serene balance—the key to Mizuki’s approach to its exquisite sushi and tempura.
Mizuki is taking this culinary philosophy of balance even further with its new combined omakase menu. For the first time, diners can enjoy both sushi and tempura with signature and seasonal dishes from the chefs regardless of whether you’re seated at the sushi bar, the tempura bar, or in any one of Mizuki's three private rooms. It’s a delicate operation that demands clockwork precision, like frying each tempura meticulously on cue, or cutting and pressing each nigiri sushi at the right time to be delivered to your table in seconds.
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At Mizuki, you can be assured of the freshest high-quality Japanese ingredients that you won’t find anywhere else. The chefs have an eye for rarer fish varieties hardly found elsewhere in Singapore. The kuromutsu (Japanese bluefish), for one, is a fish prized for its rich and fresh flavour; the ainame (fat greenling) is another deep sea variety that develops a full flavour and firm texture from its rocky coastal habitat.
Not only that, Mizuki makes it a point to import seafood from Toyusu Market in Tokyo four times a week, supplying Mizuki with the freshest produce from different prefectures across Japan. Expect signatures like the bluefin otoro, the fattiest cut of the fish celebrated for its rich and full flavour, as well as the decadent bafun uni and ikura don. The impossibly creamy uni is cut by the salty richness of the house-cured ikura (salmon roe), with fresh yuzu adding a dash of refreshing lightness.
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