
Kannai Japanese Cuisine Kukai
Kazunoko-Konbu Wrapped in Squid, Green Asparagus Yawata-Maki
This is the appetizer course. For the herring roe on kelp wrapped in squid: desalt it as usual. Removing all the salt would leave it flavorless, so…
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Kannai Japanese Cuisine Kukai
This is the appetizer course. For the herring roe on kelp wrapped in squid: desalt it as usual. Removing all the salt would leave it flavorless, so…

Kannai Japanese Cuisine Kukai

Kannai Japanese Cuisine Kukai
I heavily salt the pike conger roe and keep it frozen. I then remove the salt, soak it in shōchū for about 30 minutes, drain off the moisture, wrap…

Kannai Japanese Cuisine Kukai
This is a mixed simmered assortment. For the honmasu trout wrapped and simmered in spring cabbage: gather the trout off-cuts and wrap them in…

Kannai Japanese Cuisine Kukai
The supplementary course meant to encourage the sake is pineapple baked with cream. Spiny lobster, abalone, and the like are placed inside the…

Kannai Japanese Cuisine Kukai
For the whole buckwheat groats and duck karukan-steamed dish, I soak the buckwheat groats and simmer them until soft in a clear soup base. I combine…

Kannai Japanese Cuisine Kukai
The grilled dish (yakizakana) is oysters Echigo-yaki. I season and steam the oysters, cook washed rice into a firm porridge, press it through a fine…

Kannai Japanese Cuisine Kukai
The irizake, a classical seasoning sauce of sake reduced with plum and bonito, used for the sashimi course is made with 20 pickled plums per sho of…

Kannai Japanese Cuisine Kukai
The fried course is deep-fried items served in a hollowed-out yuzu shell. At our restaurant, when we want grated yuzu, we grate the peel using the…

Kannai Japanese Cuisine Kukai
The soup course is marusui. When filleting softshell turtle, trimmings are left over, so I make use of them in dishes like the clear-soup course. In…

Kannai Japanese Cuisine Kukai
The Western-style plate is Japanese-style steak. In our course menu, from sashimi through dessert, a single cut of steak is included as well, and we…

Kannai Japanese Cuisine Kukai
For the sashimi course, whatever fish is used, I always use ice so no fishy odor comes through. When you build a kama-style (pot-shaped) presentation…

Kannai Japanese Cuisine Kukai
This is the fried course. For the shiba shrimp mugwort manju: wash the mugwort thoroughly, steam it, and grind it in a mortar; spinach or daikon-leaf…