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Shinshu-style steamed tilefish with tea soba, shredded scallion, wasabi, and thickened seasoned dashi sauce

This time, on 'steamed dishes,' I learned from instructor Shimada (Ginza Kasuga). I take up 'Shinshū-mushi.'

Kisarazu — Japanese-Style Noodles from the Banzu Tidal Flat

The hotel I work for is in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, and since many guests come from outside the prefecture, I wanted to use appealing local Chiba…

• Serves 1 · ¥730

• Cook time 50 min

Abalone tempura, Inaniwa udon, grated daikon, aromatics

This time, the basic rice course is 'Inaniwa udon.' We have guests eat it simply, with grated daikon and aromatics, but the temperature and time used…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Bamboo Shoot Manju

This is a dish where you can fully enjoy the aroma and deliciousness of bamboo shoot, a representative ingredient of spring. So that you can fully…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 20 min

Yellowtail simmered to a glossy sheen, yellowtail liver, white-simmered turnip, chrysanthemum-cut lotus root, maple-leaf carrot, roasted chestnut, green chili, julienned ginger, sansho leaf

This time, we learned about side dishes from Master Teruaki Mochizuki (The New Okura). He came up with dishes that look delicious and catch your…

• ¥720

• Cook time 1 hr

Tilefish fried in its own scales, grilled eggplant, mogusa ginger, fried fresh yuba, shiso flower spike, thickened seasoned dashi sauce

This time, within Japanese cuisine, a proposal from head chef Honda (Ginza U Noki) on the basic dishes of fried food. In cooking, scales are, in…

• Serves 1 · ¥750

• Cook time 30 min

Soy milk yuba tofu with tortoiseshell glaze, wasabi

Tags & categories related to this post : December, January, February, elegant, creamy, simple, comforting, kaiseki cuisine, traditional, sakizuke —…

• Serves 1 · ¥180

• Cook time 10 min

Tilefish, kombu-cured and pinecone-grilled, sudachi, clear seafood broth

This is a dish I devised so that guests could enjoy the full deliciousness of tilefish, which comes into season in the cold months. I prepare…

• Serves 1 · ¥750

• Cook time 40 min

Chilled Tomato Sōmen

This is a dish built on the unusual combination of "plant-based umami and animal-based oil," using oil as something added to the seasoning at the…

• Serves 1 · ¥138

• Cook time 8 min

Grilled Eggplant with Gelée

This is an appetizer designed to let guests fully savor eggplant at its peak season, when its umami is at its most concentrated. Here, we grill the…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Soup bowl: okoze suppon-style, mugwort tofu, bamboo shoot, myoga, scallion, sansho flower buds

This time, we asked Shimizu Yuji, head chef of the famous Michelin-starred restaurant Nishiazabu Ichino, to introduce us to "Yogurt tofu," a standard…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 4 hr

Pacific Cod and Snow-Covered Daikon Mizore-Mushi

This is a steamed dish, using Hokkaido overwintered snow-covered daikon and scallion. The Pacific cod and grated snow-covered daikon steamed dish is…

• Serves 1 · ¥190

• Cook time 1 hr

Steamed Turnip, Dried Shrimp Soup

For the steamed turnip, we normally combine grated turnip with egg white, but since our restaurant serves a large number of guests and needs a…

• Serves 1 · ¥475

• Cook time 12 min

Roe-bearing sweetfish, oil-steamed with white vinegar dressing

For the roe-bearing ayu, oil-steamed with white vinegar dressing, I could never quite enjoy the dry, mealy texture of the roe, so I thought about how…

• Serves 1 · ¥395

• Cook time 2 days

Giant Pacific octopus grilled and steeped in dashi

This is an appetizer built around the theme of new ways of serving seafood. For the Giant Pacific Octopus Yaki-hitashi, octopus is usually served as…

• Serves 1 · ¥460

• Cook time 1 hr

Salmon tatsuta-style deep-fried, fan-cut eggplant, chrysanthemum thin-batter fry, ginger salt, sudachi

This time, we learned about fried food from Master Toru Sugai (Tokyo Kaikan Mitsubishi Club). We will cover the basic "Tatsutaage" dish.

Mountain yam mold, karukan-style

This is the appetizer. For the mountain yam karukan-yose, I think quite a few restaurants make a jelly-set mountain yam dish, but I got the idea from…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 40 min

Largehead beltfish shin-biki-age, matsutake

This is a deep-fried course in which seasonal ingredients are coated with unconventional coatings such as toasted granulated glutinous-rice coating…

• Serves 1 · ¥495

• Cook time 15 min

Japanese-Style Roast Beef

This time it is the additional course. For the Japanese-style roast beef, since many of our guests prefer red, lean meat, this time we use the inner…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 3 hr

Winter yellowtail with grated wasabi, whole daikon, mizuna, wasabi

We grill the yellowtail close to a strong flame for about 40% of the way through, to crisp up the skin while keeping the inside rare. On top of that…

Cod and turnip

This is an early-season appetizer of cod and turnip. I designed this dish for the guests in their forties to seventies who make up most of our…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 40 min

Torigai and Mizunasu Clear Soup

This dish combines ark shell, a prized ingredient known as a springtime-to-early-summer delicacy, with mizunasu (a mild, juicy eggplant variety from…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 days

Pike conger and lotus root, steamed, chrysanthemum, matsutake

When wrapping the lotus root in hamo, brush on kuzu starch firmly with a pastry brush, but take care — depending on how the fine bone-cutting is…

Whole dried blackthroat seaperch, autumn miso yuzu-scented grilled, low-temperature roasted Daisen free-range chicken with yuzu kosho, freshly rolled dashi-maki tamago, tinted grated daikon, kombu, mentaiko

This is from our breakfast menu. The grilled fish is changed with the seasons to whatever is delicious at the time, and the dashi-maki omelet is…

• Serves 1 · ¥620

• Cook time 20 min