KinkyBlueFairy : Shiro Sushi + Sake Bar @ One Eleven Resorts, Bali

Shiro Sushi + Sake Bar @ One Eleven Resorts, Bali

Published on 19 March 2013

After perhaps five-too-many cocktails at Potato Head, Clem and i hopped into a taxi back to One Eleven. We’d arranged to have an anticipated Japanese dinner at Shiro, the resort’s sushi and sake bar helmed by Chef Shiro aka Shinya Kuwazoe.

Shiro is a cosy restaurant on the first floor of One Eleven. Well it didn’t feel so cosy when i first stepped in, cos we were the only customers there at first so i felt like too much staff attention was on us. But after we settled down and started talking to Chef Shinya who hails from Osaka, we felt more at ease and ended up spending a good few hours taking our time tasting all our food and chatting non stop. Oh, and having lots of sake. We must have ordered three bottles… and shared it with Shinya too, cos the food he served us was just too good that it felt only fair we shared our drink.

The restaurant itself is designed by the famed Shigemasa Noi, who’s been experienced in store and display design since 1965. The most recognizable feature in Shiro are its raw walls made out of intricate wooden blocks placed in various levels. I don’t even want to know how much work went into that…

As for the food, never would i have thought that Bali would hold some of the best Japanese food i’d ever had. I still dream about the fatty tuna that melted in my mouth that night…

Being under the One Eleven umbrella assures us that Shiro uses only the best and freshest ingredients they can obtain.

I think Clem and i shared a meal and had some other small things here and there… but i was incredibly full nearing the end of it. I honestly couldn’t swallow anymore food! And i felt i just HAD to cos it was so good and i didn’t want to waste anything!

That fish was just staring at me all night.

Sake and sushi… seriously one of my favourite meals.

Was so relieved that dessert was a light sorbet, perfect to cleanse my palate with.

Shinya is so cute! He’s so shy at first, but the sake loosened him up, heh. I even teased him whether he’s going to get a girlfriend in Bali cos he’s still single.

When we went back that night, i finally *got* it on what it’s like to eat in a proper Japanese bar. I’ve gone to nice Japanese restaurants where there’s only two people in a large room in a garden, but i somehow prefer sitting AT the bar, watching the chef make the sushi in front of you, gently place it on your plate, and subtly watch your reaction as you taste it for the first time. There’s more communication going on between the person who prepares the food and the customer who eats it. I had such a wonderful EXPERIENCE in Shiro.