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Beef Tongue Wrapped in Shiso

Next, I bring out the fried dish. I think fried food tastes best once the sake has kicked in a bit, or when you're hungry. For the beef tongue…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 hr

Tilefish twisted-rein fry, potato manju, corn, beach silvertop, sudachi, sansho salt

I present a tazuna-age that makes the most of the beauty of the tilefish's skin. For the core, I use a shrimp shinjo made from kuruma prawn, aiming…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Two-topping deep-fried shrimp shinjo (Large-Batch Cooking)

This is a shrimp shinjo — a fish-paste dumpling — prepared futami-age style, fried two different ways. Here, I used Suzuhiro Kamaboko's "all-purpose…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Blanched pike conger, fried in batter, matsutake, fig, shuto cheese

The shuto cheese served alongside the fried dish is made by adding sake to bonito shuto to draw out a stock, straining it, then adding egg yolk and…

Deep-fried corn fish-paste dumpling, young chicken rolled with Western vegetables, nori-wrapped deep-fried dried baby sardine sheet, domyoji chewy croquette, water shield and conger eel fritter

This is the fried course. For the tatami iwashi isobe-age, make a shrimp fish-paste dumpling from ground shrimp and baby shiba shrimp, and spread it…

Fried Milt and Scallop, Turnip Mizore Agedashi Style

The key point of 'fried milt and scallop, turnip mizore agedashi style' is adding strong umami to the turnip mizore dashi using a stock taken from…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Reishi sea snail fried in egg yolk batter, tomato deep-fried in white batter, stuffed hollow burdock

This is a fried course. For the Reishi sea snail fried in egg-yolk batter, I deep-fried the sea snail in a batter of rooibos tea, egg yolk, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 40 min

Deep-fried wild sweetfish

This is a dish unique to summer: wild sweetfish from the Ado River, which flows through Kyoto and Shiga, are kept alive and then ice-stunned, and…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 20 min

Oyster lightly salted then sun-dried

The deep-fried dish is overnight-dried oyster. We rarely used to use oysters in the past, but advances in fisheries technology have made it possible…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 20 min

Abalone, Sea Urchin, and Scallop Croquette

The croquette is deep-fried slowly over medium heat for about 4 minutes; once it is about 80% fried, it is placed on the grill stand to cook it…

Winter cod deep-fried in fine rice-cracker crumbs, fan-shaped deep-fried milt

This is the deep-fried course. For the kandara mijinko-age, every January in the Shonai region of Yamagata Prefecture, the Kandara Festival is held…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Tateshina Beef Tenderloin, Deep-Fried with Aromatics

For the Tateshina beef tenderloin deep-fried with aromatics, I normally prepare Tateshina beef tenderloin — delicious even as a crossbred cattle — as…

• ¥850

• Cook time 20 min

Sea bream and aromatic vegetable hakusen-age, chia seed dressing

This time, on 'fried dishes,' I learned from chef Namai (Aoyama's 'Hana Michō'). This time I take up 'hakusen-age.'

Jumbo Kuruma Prawn, Shark Fin

This is kuruma prawn tempura, but the jumbo kuruma prawn is served fried to about a half-cooked doneness, not quite fully cooked through, and I've…

• Cook time 10 min

Deep-Fried Corn Roll

This is the fried course. For the corn-wrapped roll, isaki (threeline grunt) is wrapped around foie gras — a luxury ingredient prized for its rich…

• ¥720

• Cook time 30 min

Kagoshima Fava Bean 'Croquette'

This dish is a piece of culinary development built around the rich ingredients Kagoshima Prefecture is known for. Fava beans are a Kagoshima…

• Serves 4 · ¥500

• Cook time 3 hr

Rabbit and Yuba Spring Roll, Sudachi

For the rabbit and yuba spring roll, I thought some guests might find it too visceral if the shape of the meat were left intact, so I made it into a…

• Serves 1 · ¥196

• Cook time 15 min

Deep-Fried Pufferfish Cake, Deep-Fried Sweet Potato, Bountiful-Harvest Style

The deep-fried fugu cake has no bones and is easy to eat, so it's especially popular with our female guests. For the sweet potato, bountiful-harvest…

• ¥400

• Cook time 40 min

Shiba shrimp mino-age (oyster shin-biki-age, fried root vegetable with cheese, ginkgo-leaf-cut sweet potato, dead-branch-cut burdock, rice-ear garnish, sudachi)

This time, we learned about "agemono" from new master Masaya Tsuji (Wanmiya, Shibadaimon). We will focus on "tsukuage".

Pike conger karaage

This is the prep work for hamo. At my restaurant we process hamo by boiling it whole, so when I source hamo, I ask the supplier not to remove the…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 5 min

Whitebait and cheese kakiage

As a way of serving seafood, since our restaurant is a casual, mass-appeal restaurant in Kanagawa Prefecture, I proposed this using Kanagawa…

• Serves 1 · ¥430

• Cook time 30 min

Mountain yam and shrimp sandwich with grated daikon, deep-fried; burdock coated in crushed rice cracker, deep-fried; New Zealand spinach in hakusen batter, deep-fried; kofuki-dusted black soybeans, deep-fried; and plum-shaped wheat gluten crisps

Q: Please tell us how to bring out the umami in mountain yam, and how to fry plum-shaped fu crisps so they come out clean. A: Salting mountain yam…

• ¥900

• Cook time 2 hr

Kisu Senbei, Kuruma Prawn Kimi-Age, and Young Rakkyo Kimi-Age

Kisu (Japanese whiting) senbei is kisu deep-fried into a cracker shape and served with matcha salt, finished to feel light and fresh, fitting for…

• ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Conger Eel Tosa-Age, Ayu Steamed in Aromatic Oil

Let's get right into the menu explanation. The conger eel bonito-flake deep-fry for the 37th micro-season is a technique I learned from a senior…

• ¥2,500

• Cook time 20 min