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Chestnut Cream Style, 'Bountiful-Harvest' Crab Shinjo

The soup course's 'bountiful-harvest' crab shinjo is made by reconstituting store-bought sixteen-grain rice, combining it with raw fish flesh into a…

Tilefish salted, dried, and grilled Okitsu-style, chakin-shaped new potato with butter

For the grilled course's amadai okitsu-yaki, what matters is the balance of salting, drying, and grilling, and without accumulated experience it's…

Mugwort tofu, small kuruma shrimp

For the clear-soup course, the mugwort tofu: combine 500cc soy milk with 50g kuzu starch and knead together, then just before it fully comes…

Sesame dumpling with mountain vegetables

Set beside the course standing in for the simmered dish is yama-gobo (mountain burdock); I included it, somewhat insistently, simply because I wanted…

Pinecone-cut small abalone / temari tuna with spicy miso / cherry-blossom small sea bream / horsetail shoots tofu-dressed / icefish and uni masago-style / clams and udo dressed with sansho leaf

For the pinecone-cut tokobushi, the tokobushi is simmered until tender, then finished by adding sieved liver at the end. For the temari tuna with…

Spring Daikon Simmered in Soup / Baby Octopus Tōza-ni / Cherry-Blossom Lily Bulb

For the simmered assortment's spring daikon in soup, the daikon is slowly simmered in chicken stock and left to soak up the flavor. For the roe…

Alfonsino grilled with sweet white sake, pen shell grilled with sansho leaf

For the grilled course's pen shell with kinome: remove the pen shell from its shell, marinate it in a blend of soy sauce, mirin, and sake in equal…

Zucchini Blossoms with Shrimp Shinjo, Deep-Fried Crab and Chrysanthemum Deep-Fry Conger Eel Fritter

For the fried course's crab and chrysanthemum deep-fry, I steam it once before frying. As for the conger eel fritter, since conger eel is slow to…

Petit Tomatoes with Plum Fragrance

Nori clear soup with grated-yam sea urchin tofu

For the yōrō sea urchin tofu in the clear-soup course, we grate mountain yam and pound Chinese yam, bind them with a little raw fish paste, and set…

Vinegar-cured mackerel and mustard-greens roll

For the shime-saba takana roll, the takana pickles are used after removing a little of their saltiness. This time I've used shime-saba, but young…

Simmered in sake lees

For the simmered dish, since this is the season when the rice harvest has just finished and sake brewing begins, I made a sake lees simmer. These…

Monkfish liver, gently simmered

The simmered course is monkfish liver, gently simmered. The liver is worked well by hand in water for about an hour to drain the blood. An…

Arrowhead bulb, pinecone-cut, Spanish mackerel crisp, chicken crisp, and shrimp crisp with a fragrance of Kōshū red wine

The deep-fried course's Spanish mackerel crisp uses the tail section of the Spanish mackerel. If you freeze it before slicing, you can cut it thin…

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

Chestnut Rice

Horse Meat Tossed with Tonburi

Since we're in Kumamoto, many guests do ask for horse meat. This time, for the appetizer, I tossed horse meat with broom cypress seeds, sometimes…

Yam bulbils deep-fried in sea urchin batter

As for the yam bulbils deep-fried in sea urchin batter, the key point when frying in the sea urchin batter is that if the oil temperature runs too…

Japanese flounder grilled with soba miso

The hirame soba-miso yaki took its inspiration from the soba-miso yaki served at soba noodle shops; we devised a preparation using whole soba…

Blended miso style, diced fried tofu

For the soup course, Tokyo guests tend not to favor the mellow, heavy flavor of white miso, so I made a blended-miso style by combining white miso…

Phyllo-wrapped bake

For the grilled course's phyllo-wrapped bake, pate filo is something like the wrapper used for Middle Eastern spring rolls. It comes in thin sheets…

Simmered Course

For the simmered course, shishi daikon is normally made as a sweet-and-savory simmered dish of wild boar and daikon, but in the Chichibu region it…

Translucent baby conger eel

For the vinegared course, the noresore, translucent baby conger eel, is washed thoroughly in a seawater-strength salt brine, and served in a mild…

Duck meat, tofu skin layered and grilled, young sansho leaf, and grated daikon