
Potatoes and root vegetables


For the simmered course's deep-fried and simmered anglerfish, if I'm not serving it right away, simmering it ahead of time causes the potato-starch…

For the grilled dish, barracuda with Rikyū-style tofu, the barracuda is grilled once, then topped with Rikyū-style sesame tofu and grilled again. In…

The soup course is a crab and lotus root yose. To keep the lotus root from discoloring, always soak it in vinegar water and then alum water. Boil it…

For the grilled course's kinome-grilled river trout, seasonal river trout is filleted into three pieces to get a boneless fillet, knife-scored in a…

Tokyo Airport Restaurant

Tokyo Airport Restaurant

Japanese restaurant "Shinbashi Kanetanaka"
Noboru Matsumoto
For the grilled course's salt-grilled live moroko, we used moroko farmed in Chiba Prefecture. They're arranged in a small charcoal hand-brazier to…

For the vinegared dish of snow crab, blanched white taro shoots, and fine-julienned okra, the snow crab is expensive, so we use the packaged…

Akasaka/Akasaka Hikawa
Masaru Tanaka
For the Ise lobster sautéed in aromatic butter in this grilled dish, adding the aromatic butter right at the end brings out a great deal of richness…

Atami Ginsharizawa
For handmade konnyaku sashimi, wash the konnyaku potato well and peel it cleanly. Bring 1 liter of the 2 liters of water to a boil and dissolve…

Kioicho, Hotel New Otani Senbazuru
Isamu Miyata
This is a grilled course, paired with a light, fruity red wine. For the hata yuan-yaki, orange-flavored, we fillet the hata into three pieces, cut it…

Japanese Cuisine Yoshimura
This is a hot dish. Since the flavorful stock used to steam-simmer the conger eel net-and-rope steam will be used again later, we strain it and set…

Japanese Cuisine Yoshimura
The traditional version is Ise lobster grilled with spring sprouts. What's carved into a pine shape is chicken liver, the bamboo is celtuce, and the…

Hotel Nikko Tokyo Japanese Restaurant "Sakura"
Shinji Kajiwara
I hollow out a fruit tomato and grill it, and inside I put a summer vegetable stew made from the hollowed-out tomato flesh, seasonal asparagus…

Kagurazaka Restaurant Maki
In place of a simmered dish, this course uses Iberian pork -- I wanted something to build stamina for the coming summer. Rather than cooking it…

For the conger eel and butterbur roll koromo-age, battered and deep-fried, conger eel is rolled together with butterbur. For the maki-grade prawn…

For the Ōura burdock stuffed and simmered dish, the Ōura burdock — a thick-necked, hollow-cored cultivar — is cut into pieces about 3 cm long and…

The grilled course is uni-grilled butterfish. The butterfish is steeped in a soy-and-citrus marinade, topped with sea urchin, and grilled. For the…

Shibuya Japanese Restaurant Aogaki
Last is the fried course. For the maki-grade kuruma prawn kikka-age: the prawn is flattened out, and fresh chrysanthemum petals that have been picked…

Ginza Kappo Risen
The fukahire (shark fin) renkon-mochi is made by simmering fukahire until soft with plenty of sake added, grating lotus root and kneading it while…
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