Cloud Nine

 This is going to be my first restaurant review. I'm just going to explain the food and my experience of the restaurant in my own way. So here's a story of my Birthday dinner, hope you enjoy reading it!

Yesterday was my 33rd  birthday and my lovely fiancee took me out to eat in a nice restaurant in Stockholm called Cloud Nine , the Dim Sum room. Click the name, to see the website. It was really cosy and nice place, quite prizy thou. The place had cool interior too, decorated little bit like hiphop style. So if you feel like eating delicious asian style food, drink tasty drinks and just chill, this is a place for you.

We started with drinks. I ordered a class of white wine and my fiancee ordered some Orange alcohol drink. Then we decided to start with a big Sashimi plate and share it together. The plate included: "Salmon Sashimi" Salmon with sesame seeds, gari, pea sprouts and warm sesame oil. "Tuna Cheviche" Tuna with avocado, yuzo, soy, nori and taro root. "Pacific Scallops" Scallops marinaded in tryffel oil and yuzo. The last set I think was Black Fish with green chili and some oil, I forgot what it was thou. The Sashimi set was Exellent! Fish tasted fresh and melted in mouth. My favourite was the Tuna and the Salmon Sashimis. The price for the Big Sashimi plate was 285,00 kr but it was all worth of the flavors!

Next we ordered some Dumplings. Both decided to take the same dish "Steamed Seafood Dumplings" which included four dumplings filled with fish, seafood, shiitake mushrooms and spring onion. They were served with two delicious dip, the other tasted like ginger & lemon and the other sweet soy & spices. Dumplings were soft and melted in the mouth. Really tasty! The price for two dumpling sets were 230, 00 kr. We also ordered some Edamame beans on the side. They had sprinkled some Togarashi on top, which make the edamames really spicy! After a while, maybe little bit too spicy! Our mouths were on fire! The Edamames cost 55,00 kr and it was a big portion, enough for two.

 

After the dumplings, we ate some Crab Salad. We were supposed to order Crab cakes, but they were out of them, so instead they had another dish, so we tried it out. The Crab salad was served with some papaya, fresh spinach, tomato sauce and spices. It was good, but i think it would have been better without the tomato sauce. Just with ginger and lime would been enough for taste. But it still was good! The price for the salad for two was 220,00 kr.

Because all the portions were quite small, we still were a bit hungry. We decided to order some sushis. We took some Nigiri with Salmon Caviar, rolled within cucumber. The Nigiris were good, but didn't neet a dipping in soy sauce. The caviar was salty enough. We also took some "Alaska Rolls" filled with salmon, avocado, cucumber and sesame mayonnaise. These were really delicious! The price for Nigiri was 100,00 kr and the Alaska rolls were 110,00 kr.

For last, we ordered some desserts. Even thou i started to be quite full already, my fiancee insisted that we get some desserts too. So i took the basic, Creme Brulee and he took Chocolate mousse with some cranberrys on top. The price for Creme burlee was 85,00 kr and the Mousse was 95,00 kr. Both were delicious!

In total we both ate gourmet food with 1361,00 kr including the drinks. Not so bad for exellent experice on different flavors! The serving was really friendly and they explained all the dishes to us what they included. I highly recommend this restaurant for all asian style food lovers. Such a great experience! Definetly going to try this out again some day!

I love Sushi

Sushi is one of my favorite foods. You can make so many different variations of maki-rolls / nigiris. Simply love them! I love the pickled ginger too, so that pink one is my favorite. Nowdays you can find almost all the ingredients from local food stores, but ofcourse you can find them in Asian stores too.  Here's one little recipe how i like to make Tofu-maki rolls.

You need:

• One packet of hard Tofu
• Avocado
• 1 Carrot
• Cucumber
• Iceberg lettuce
• Nori (Seaweed)
• Wasabi
• Rice vinegar
• Sesame seeds
• Soy sauce
• Heinz tartar sauce (or cream cheese, mayonnaise)
• Sushi rice or plain porridge rice
• Sesame oil, Chili oil, salt, pepper & Soya sauce for the marinade for tofu
• Cooking oil for frying the tofu. 
• Rolling mat

First cut long thick slices from the tofu and marinade them. Put the rice in a rice cooker or in a pot. I myself use rice cooker, because it's easier to cook rice in it and you don't have to watch after it. Nowdays you can find rice cookers really cheap in basic home elektronic stores. Start preparing the vegetables next. Cut long thick slices and put them a side. Prepare some big wide slices from the lettuce. Fry the tofu slices in oil on a hot pan until all the sides are nice and golden brown. Put the tofu on cooling down. Meanwhile the rice sould be ready. Pour the rice on a flat bowl/dish and let it coold down. When the rice has cooled down, pour some rice vinegar all over ther rice, but be carefull that you don't pour too much! The key of making really good sushi is to make perfect rice. It takes a long time to learn it, but practise makes perfect! Mix the rice gently. Prepare the nori on top of the rice mat. Be sure that you have the right side on top. So put the shiny side down. First add some tartar sauce with using knife (you can also use mayonnaise or cream cheese, but i like tartar in my maki)Then add the lettuce. Then add rice, make a nice little ball in your hands and put it on top and start pushing it flat on the matt. Make sure you leave about 2-3 cm free space on top of the nori. Add  a little stripe of wasabi by using your finger in the middle of the rice and sprinkle some sesame seeds on top. Then add some tofu, carrot, cucumber & avocado evenly on top. Start rolling the maki with the mat. Squeeze it tight in every roll and when you come near to end, stripe some water on the end of the nori seaweed with your finger and roll the maki to the end. Cut about 2-3 cm thick pieces with using a sharp knife. Serve with soy sauce, wasabi and pickled ginger. Enjoy!