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Making Vegetables Delicious

We developed a new-sensation dashi using garlic with its odor suppressed, as part of "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine." Since…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,308

• Cook time 20 min

Sesame Tofu, Walnut Tofu, Peanut Tofu

Hassun, Shojin Tempura, Shojin Sushi

For the yuba dengaku, I placed sakura-miso — sweet miso kneaded with sugar — on top of opened yuba sheets. For the grilled Chinese yam with plum…

Sakura tofu

Mock kabayaki, novelty pumpkin, mock abalone shiitake, shojin egg, mustard lotus root

For the mock kabayaki, I spread tofu paste flat on nori, wrap it in a single turn of yuba, and grill it with a glaze while sprinkling on sansho…

• ¥30

• Cook time 20 min

Mock tofu, mock sawara yuba, deep-fried stuffed Daitokuji-fu, apricot rings, turnip achara pickle, checkerboard kombu roll, vegetarian tsukune matsukaze, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho sprout, glazed simmered taro, carrot fritters

The apricot rings were included because eating something sweet brings out the flavor of the other dishes. For the turnip achara pickle, I cut the…

Sesame Soy-Milk Somen -- Using "Macro Tare"

We thought about "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine" by making use of a sauce that delivers impact without any animal-derived ingredients. The "Macro…

• Serves 1 · ¥238

• Cook time 30 min

Chinese yam grilled Shinshu-style

For the grilled course's nagaimo grilled Shinshu-style: marinate the nagaimo in miso for about two days and grill it, but miso alone makes it too…

Yuba-wrapped brushwood-style deep-fry / Daikoku shimeji mushroom and buckwheat-groat deep-fry

For the deep-fried yuba-wrapped shiba-age, I wanted to evoke a mountain scene, the kind of image from the line 'Once upon a time, an old man went to…

Konjac and shiitake in tofu dressing

This is the tomezu. Tomezu means a dressed dish; a shojin meal built on one soup and three dishes always includes a dressed dish. For the konjac and…

• ¥70

• Cook time 30 min

Shrimp-shaped taro, Tamba-style grilled, fig, millet wheat gluten, and walnut miso-glazed, grilled wheat gluten burdock roll

Deep-fried tofu fritter, knotted dried daikon

Dragon fruit, lily bulb and fava beans, kuzu noodles, peach simmered in wine, matcha pear

Deep-fried stuffed lotus root, deep-fried mountain yam, kombu cracker, and bitter melon hollowed, stuffed, and deep-fried

Vinegared water caltrop and maple leaf, Jiro persimmon mallet-shaped roll, red taro stem and fried wheat gluten with pear dressing, Chinese yam, sweet potato, and kabocha lightly seared, frozen konjac set in amber jelly

The Kintoki carrot used in the water caltrop and maple-leaf namasu is from last year's crop. We make a lot of Buddhist vegetarian dishes here, so…

Grilled Eggplant Surinagashi and Sesame Tofu

For the clear-soup course's grilled eggplant pureed soup, this time I deep-fried the eggplant in oil and peeled it so the color wouldn't fade, but I…

Spring vegetables, Ogawa-mushi

For the wasabi leaf in the spring vegetable ogawa-mushi: pack it into a jar, pour in hot water, and shake it well — this brings out a strong…

Vegan simmered "pork belly", wave-cut konjac, accordion-cut white melon, green taro stem, fan-cut carrot, and taro mustard

For "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine," thinking of veganism as also tied to religious belief, we wanted people who can't even…

• Serves 6 · ¥80

• Cook time 50 min

Potato and Clam

For the clear-soup course's potato and clam: shaping it like a clam is a bit tricky, but it's easy if you first form it like a rice ball and then…

Shiitake mushroom in tofu dressing

Yuba, hosta shoot, ostrich fern fiddlehead and grilled lily bulb dressed with sansho leaf

For the appetizer of yuba, urui, kogomi and grilled lily bulb dressed with kinome: add a little baking soda just before the kogomi finishes boiling…

Green beans bed-pickled, tatami-cut white melon, miso-glazed grilled silken tofu, polka-dot eggplant, spinach chrysanthemum roll

Yuba Rice Porridge

This is the rice bowl course. For the yuba rice porridge, the rice goes into the pot starting from cold water; once it comes to a boil, stir it in a…

• ¥120

• Cook time 50 min

Ebi-imo in Soba Batter, Kuwai-Taro Dumplings, Umeboshi in Light Batter, Ebi-imo Skin Crisps

Shokuyo cuisine — called macrobiotic in the West — doesn't mean giving up fish and meat; it means eating in balance. We also follow ichibutsu-zentai…