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King crab shinjo napa cabbage roll, simmered, with snow-ring lotus root, twisted colorful vegetables, garland chrysanthemum sauce, and bok choy

As an accompaniment we've added yukiwa-cut lotus root; fewer chefs take the time to do this kind of decorative knifework these days, so we decided to…

Hinai-Jidori Kiritanpo Yaki-Bitashi

This time, the theme is "Reimagined Local Cuisine" — a creative reworking of the standard way Akita Prefecture's local cuisine is typically served…

• Serves 1 · ¥940

• Cook time 40 min

Hakkinton Pork and Potatoes — An Evolution of Niku-jaga

The main branch of the restaurant I currently work at has long served breakfast, so coming up with a fresh breakfast idea again was a challenge. To…

• Serves 2 · ¥267

• Cook time 20 min

Pear and ricotta cheese salad, pear and white fungus honey-simmered with yakuzen tea jelly (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

This is a dessert themed around Japanese cuisine and yakuzen. I chose a pear-based dessert because, once you enter working life, opportunities to…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 20 min

Fugu soup

We fully draw out the umami of fugu bones unique to this season, and pair it with miso for guests to enjoy.

Hairy Crab Daikon Mochi and Hikina-mochi

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dishes: hikina-mochi (mochi rice with shredded dried vegetables), akasuji daikon mochi (made from…

• Serves 2 · ¥600

• Cook time 50 min

Amazake, Ramune Mizu-Yōkan with Mango and White Wine Jelly

In the old days, dessert too was called a "water sweet," and melon and strawberries were an acceptable choice, but that's no longer acceptable today…

• Serves 1 · ¥480

• Cook time 3 hr

Coho Salmon Cured with Edible Flowers

The coho salmon cured with edible flowers becomes a dish with a gorgeous fragrance by curing the salmon with seasonal edible flowers. The lily-bulb…

• ¥532

• Cook time 1 hr

Yuba deep-fried in kadaif, isobe-style

Even without using any meat, it's plenty satisfying to eat.

"Cool flavors": summer crab shinjo, small-grade kuruma prawn, oil-simmered tuna, fresh yuba, blanched pike conger, kinjiso jelly, piped anchovy cheese

The appetizer, which I named "Cool Flavors," was designed to give guests a sense of coolness. The saimaki prawn and avocado dashi-soy jelly is made…

• Serves 3 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Low-Temperature Simmered Abalone, Melting Sesame Tofu, Seared Sea Bass

As a dish meant to help beat the summer heat, I focused above all on practicality while designing it around the theme of "unconventional cold…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,775

• Cook time 2 hr

Salt-simmered yellowtail

From our use of the winter ingredient yellowtail, this is a simmered dish. I think it's common to enjoy yellowtail for the umami of its fat, but the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Akashi sea bream, spring-haze steamed

This is a warm dish timed to the season when the cherry blossoms open. As for the Akashi tai harugasumi-mushi, this is normally a dish made with…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Koban-Shaped Pen Shell and Fava Bean Chakin

This is a seasonal assortment course proposal built around the last of the pen shell season. For the gold-coin-shaped pen shell and fava bean chakin…

• Serves 5 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 20 min

Late-Spring Clay-Pot Rice

As part of using spring ingredients at their shun, hashiri, and nagori, this uses the nagori of sakura shrimp. This is the rice course. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥310

• Cook time 30 min

Seared pen shell clam and sea urchin hand roll

The distinctive crunch of the pen shell clam and the crisp bite of Manganji pepper are gently wrapped in the mellow sweetness of sea urchin. Searing…

• ¥500

• Cook time 20 min

Eel Clear Soup — Chilled Style

This is a chilled clear soup made with eel. The eel is cut into rounds while still live, grilled, then steamed and de-boned, and briefly simmered in…

• Serves 3 · ¥320

• Cook time 40 min

Nakijin Agu Pork Rafute

For the Nakijin Agu pork rafute, an Okinawan braised pork belly, when boiling the Agu pork — a rare, purebred island breed — it's important to skim…

• ¥850

• Cook time 4 hr

Yashonma

We're operating in a very tough environment, with a labor shortage, rising food costs, and working-hour constraints, so let me introduce how our…

• Serves 3 · ¥3,200

• Cook time 30 min

Eel temari sushi

This is the rice course of the summer menu. This time we chose eel temari-zushi. The hotel where I work receives many guests from overseas, so…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Baby hairy crab

This is a steamed dish. Small hairy crab, sold at under 300 yen apiece and normally used just for stock or miso soup, are actually packed full of…

• Serves 1 · ¥721

• Cook time 2 hr

Seared bluefin medium fatty tuna cured in miso, threeline grunt blanched and stuffed with myoga, kombu-cured whiting with okra topped with grated mountain yam

This is a sashimi course built around the idea of new ways of serving seafood. Rather than simply serving it as plain sashimi, I've added one or two…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,380

• Cook time 3 hr

Wild mountain vegetables and egg rice porridge with bamboo shoot, udo, bracken fern, koshiabura, fiddlehead fern, myoga, and grated ginger

This time, on 'shokuji,' I learned from chef Tamura (Shiodome, Conrad Tokyo's 'Nihon Ryōri Kazahana'). This time I take up 'kayaku gohan.'

King crab, Kyoto-style steamed with fish paste

This is an introduction under the theme of heritage dishes. At our membership-only stores, I make a sample dish using ingredients that can be sourced…

• Serves 1 · ¥297

• Cook time 1 hr