I do not know whether the idea is original or not, but it was certainly a new experience for me. Bluefin combines more or less traditional Japanese cuisine with flavours of many western ones to produce tastes that are different from all else! They also do it well! It is no surprise that it is quickly becoming one of Bali s in restaurants. It is at the top of everyone s list of must do restaurants.
However to fully enjoy Bluefin it helps to have an open mind as to your food combinations and the subsequent exploration of tastes.
Traditional Japanese Lunch Boxes, Bluefin style, are served daily from 11.00 to 4.00 p.m. They combine many small portions of what is contained elsewhere on the menu all in their compartmentalised sections of the box.
Perusing the list of Starters at Bluefin leaves you in no doubt of what is to follow. The Bluefin Chilli Ayo combines baked scallops, octopus, squid and shrimps, and is then topped with a chilli mayonnaise and flying fish roe. I find it difficult to imagine a seafood dish more exotic than that or tasting better!
Sashimi with a difference; Chilled Tuna, raw tuna in a soy fish sauce, topped with spring onions and sesame seeds, on ice! Seafood Spring Rolls are in fact wontons stuffed with squid, octopus, salmon, crabstick, snapper and white radish, then deep-fried.
Baked Oysters are cooked in a soy shitake and straw mushroom sauce. Soft Shell Crabs are served with a soy vinaigrette. The Clams are steamed in a sauce of white wine, garlic, leeks, scallions, red chilli and soy. The Mushroom Tempura is also filled with shrimp, beef and squid.
Miso Shiru is in the traditional style, bean curd, seaweed, leek, dry tofu and bean paste. Mushroom Soup Dobin Mushi combines assorted mushrooms with prawn, chicken, and fish in a clear broth. A Korean touch with the Kimchi Seafood, shrimp, squid and fish pieces in a spicy kimchi soup. Also a Korean Hot Plate, consisting of squid, kimchi and egg yolk in a spicy sauce.
Robatayaki is a Japanese cuisine style that I quite enjoy. It fits my constant requirement for snacking, small and different tastes, and many of them! Robatayaki is merely skewers of meat, fish and/or vegetables, dipped in a sauce and then barbecued over a charcoal grill. At Bluefin there are many traditional ones on offer [Beef and Onion with Green Peppers, Chicken and Leek and many seafood pieces] as well as the Fusion list. Cajun Chicken or Tuna is combined with onion, Salmon with Asparagus, Beef and Leek, Chicken and Eggplant or my favourite; Scallops with Bacon.
All the traditional Sushi and Sashimi is available, you can even sit at the long sushi bar. All can be ordered separately or in a variety of combination specials. But it is the Fusion Rolls that really excite, and the list of possible combinations quite extensive.
The Bluefin Roll combines crab salad, cucumber and avocado wrapped in salmon and then topped with a chilli ayo sauce, flying fish roe and a sweet soy sauce. The Caterpillar Roll consists of eel and cucumber wrapped with avocado, topped with sesame seeds and flying fish roe. Wonderful!
Dragon Roll is a shrimp tempura and cucumber wrapped with eel and avocado. The Cherry Blossom Roll sees fresh salmon and avocado wrapped in red tuna. A Salmon Skin Roll combines crispy salmon skin with lotus root in a sweet soy teryaki. Lotus Root has an unusual texture and taste, quite sensational. It features in a number of Japanese and Korean entrees. The Tigers Eye Roll uses salmon, scallops and cream cheese wrapped with squid.
If you are feeling rich then how about a Rolls Royce Roll? A lobster and mushroom tempura is combined with avocado and a salad of crab then wrapped with eel. A French Roll is liver pate, with cream cheese, avocado and cucumber topped with sesame seeds and flying fish roe. The Fun Fancy Roll combines pink soybean nori, shrimp tempura, sweet egg omelette, smoked salmon, cucumber and green salad then topped with a black pepper and a chilli ayo sauce.
The various tastes are almost impossible to imagine, just order, eat and enjoy!
After all the other offerings, the Dinner Mains are almost normal! Of course some people never get to that section of the menu after having sampled so many of the fusion dishes, starters and rolls.
Steak at Bluefin is imported tenderloin and is sautéed in a black pepper sauce, then served with tempura wasabi potatoes and garlic spinach. The Chicken Curry combines chicken pieces with shitake mushrooms cooked in a Japanese curry sauce with onions, carrots and potatoes. The Salmon Oyster Roulades are wonderful! Thinly sliced salmon is wrapped around oysters, steamed then topped with a garlic turmeric cream sauce and served with tempura nori asparagus.
The Seafood Saute Pasta is a Spaghetti Marinara taken to the extreme. Squid, prawns mussels, fish, garlic, onions and shitake mushrooms are sautéed in red wine, sake and soy sauce, then served over spaghetti.
The Red Pepper Lobster has been steamed and is then topped with a red pepper cream sauce, tempura wasabi potatoes on the side. A number of special Seafood Combination Platters are available, the price depending on the exotic level of the contents.
For dessert, if you dare, you can stick to the western norms, Crème Brulee, Rum Cake or a Chocolate Mousse. Or experiment with the Japanese Green Tea or Red Bean Ice Creams.
All together a most amazing selection of dishes, and one that must be experienced first hand. No written description could ever do it justice! Add Bluefin to that little book of places you must visit, sometime. You will not be disappointed!
Source: balieats.com
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