Yamazato Focus

This season, Yamazato, Hotel Okura Macau’s Japanese restaurant, is collaborating with Dewazakura Sake Brewery to present exclusive sake-pairing menus. The brewery was founded in 1892 in Tendo City, Yamagata Prefecture, where the extreme range of temperatures from hot summer and cold, snowy winter spikes the region’s rice and fruit production.

From October 12 to 28, guests at Yamazato can sample four labels from Dewazakura Sake Brewery, which have been chosen to pair with the Shusai lunch and dinner kaiseki menus created specially for the occasion, including sparkling sake Tobiroku, delicate Junmai Daiginjo Yuki Megami, the Yamahai Hiyaoroshi as well as floral Junmai Daiginjo Ichiro. The Shusai lunch kaiseki features scallop with radish and monkfish liver with ponzu sauce as starter, followed by soup with seasonal fish and autumn mushroom served in Dobin tea pot, sashimi of two varieties of seasonal fish, Hassun platter, as well as grilled Australian wagyu beef with miso on magnolia leaf as main, accompanied by sushi of grilled mackerel as well as persimmon and cream cheese with sake lees from Dewazakura for dessert. The lunch menu is priced at MOP 580 per person or MOP 760 with sake pairing.

The Shusai dinner kaiseki showcases more of autumn’s harvests, with a sashimi course featuring file fish and thinly sliced flat fish, a main of grilled Bungo beef with miso on magnolia beef, as well as the additional cold soba noodles with homemade sesame sauce, and an extra dessert of chestnut with sweet potato and matcha. The Shusai dinner kaiseki menu is priced at MOP 1,580 per person, or MOP 1,930 with sake pairing.

Yamazato, 28/F, Hotel Okura Macau, Galaxy Macau, Cotai, Macau; +853 8883 5127; www.hotelokuramacau.com