My favorite dish

Everytime when I am in Jakarta, this dish is a MUST - sashimi lobsters yummy yummy..
Serving the lobster sashimi is very important to us, I mean me and my partners in this fish trade. When we visit a new place, we will call the cook to our table first to brief him exactly how to serve it. firstly the knife must be a special one, very sharp and cut them into thin slices but not too thin or it will drop when you pick it up with a pair of chopsticks so it has to be thick enough to hold and thin enough so that it sort of melts in your mouth.

Just dip a piece into wasabi with the Japanese sauce... wow.. the taste is special.. The plate has to be served cold with ice, but the meat MUST not touch the ice so a layer of plastic will be place on top of some crushed ice and the meat laid right on top the ice separated by a thin piece of plastic sheeting. After a few dinner trips with them, you will never take lobsters any other different way.

This method was served to the Japanese prime minister when he came to Bangkok some years ago. Since we tasted it this way, we have been asking cooks all over the place where we dine to prepare them this particular way. You can really taste the delicacy of lobster meat in its finest form.
I just couldn't find a sliced lobster serving in the internet, but just to give you an idea what I meant by a piece of plastic sheet with crushed ice below and the sliced lobster meat on top. The meat must be translucent when served, if the meat touches ice, it turns white as they say the ice water will cook the meat and spoils the taste of a real raw sashimi lobster :) hehe


The picture below is also sashimi lobsters but the meat is chopped too big a slice infact it's not even in sliced form but in chunks, when you take 2 to 3 pieces, you will have a funny feeling of taking too much raw meat.. while those in slices you can take as many as you want, you won't feel it.
and oh.. the lobster head, claws, legs, tails all goes into lobster porridge served as the last dish before we call it a night... yummy yummy... :)
but make sure you have enough $$$ to order a lobster sashimi of this size at a 5 star restaurant - 3,000,000 rupiah (rm1,000++) and with all other dishes, our bill usually came up to 4-5 million rupiahs for a table for 6-8 people.