
Hakone Yumoto Senkei
Kombu-Cured Grilled Cod, Egg-Yolk Soy-Grilled Clams
This is the yakimono — the grilled course, written in the menu with celebratory kanji. Kombu-Cured Grilled Cod: the cod is cured with kombu, then…
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Hakone Yumoto Senkei
This is the yakimono — the grilled course, written in the menu with celebratory kanji. Kombu-Cured Grilled Cod: the cod is cured with kombu, then…

Hakone Yumoto Senkei
Starting with the appetizers. In the mallet-shaped vessel I've arranged a "pine-bamboo-plum" motif. There's the tawara-shaped ebi-imo taro, chicken…

Hakone Yumoto Senkei
First, the appetizer is a seven-item assortment. For the Spanish mackerel kenchin-yaki with sweet potato, the Spanish mackerel is prepared…

Hakone Yumoto Senkei
This is the simmered assortment. Golden Zenmai Shinoda Roll: dried zenmai is rehydrated and simmered to absorb the broth, then coated in egg yolk and…

Hakone Yumoto Senkei
This is the soup course, finished with white miso. For the sea bream wakakusa mochi, I use mugwort powder kneaded together with shiratama rice flour…

Hakone Yumoto Senkei
This is the simmered course. As for the ebi-imo simmered directly (jikadaki) — ebi-imo does end up discoloring, but I still think simmering it…

Hakone Yumoto Senkei
This is the soup course. For the sea bream matsukawa-skin tofu, quite a lot of skin is left over from slicing sea bream sashimi, so it is frozen for…

Hakone Yumoto Senkei
This is the celebratory dish. Alongside the Crab and Turnip Tree-Ring Roll is a molded Suizenji nori. The Suizenji nori is shaped like a gourd. For…

Hakone Yumoto Senkei
This is the deep-fried course. For the gourd-shaped fried Japanese whiting, a whiting of about 20 cm is cut into roughly eight pieces, opened out…

Hakone Yumoto Senkei
These are the deep-fried dishes. Burdock Tazuna-Age: scallop is worked into a fine paste and stuffed into the burdock, then twisted and deep-fried in…

Hakone Yumoto Senkei
This is the grilled course. On the recommendation of a senior colleague, I tried my hand at a grilled cheese 'treasure ship,' a festive New Year…