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Snowflake-grilled dish

Yuba pickled in salt-fermented bonito viscera

●Yuba Pickled in Shuto: the shuto — salted, fermented bonito innards — is rinsed in water and left to steep in sake with the alcohol cooked off. The…

Dried sea cucumber ovary, sake-grilled

Sado yellowtail grilled with perilla

Splendid alfonsino, horse mackerel, ark shell clam, giant clam

Tortoiseshell-style simmered softshell turtle

In keeping with the moon-viewing season, this plays on the idiom "the moon and the softshell turtle" (tsuki to suppon — things that resemble each…

Flounder, ark shell clam, and a sea urchin roll with Daigo tofu skin, a specialty of Ibaraki

Lotus root simmered with mustard

Shrimp-shaped taro deep-fried in poppy seeds, and oyster deep-fried in a rice-cracker-crumb coating

For the ebi-imo poppy seed deep-fry, we steam the ebi-imo with its skin still on. Doing so not only improves the aroma, but also lets it be used in…

Burdock, mitsuba, and carrot kakiage, a new twist

For the burdock, mitsuba, and carrot kakiage with a twist, we kept the texture by coarsely mincing small kuruma prawns by hand. Besides deep-fried…

Dried daikon leaf rice

Many varieties have branched off according to their intended use. It is characterized by a thick, long root, and is well suited to simmered dishes…

Kameido daikon hot pot with coarsely grated daikon

This daikon takes its name from having once been a specialty product of Kameido; it is characterized by a small, slender, cone-shaped root and…

Salt-grilled fat greenling

The shinzakana course, an extra dish offered partway through the meal, is where we played around a bit — tried a lot of things, took on a bit of a…

Sea bream, Japanese halfbeak, squid, and spiny lobster

For the sashimi, we staged a theme around Kyokusui no En — the 'winding water banquet,' a Heian-era poetry party where wine cups floated down a…

Lily bulb and Hakata-style smoked salmon

Bamboo Shoot, Wakame, and Other Dishes

For the simmered course, the Ise lobster is done gusoku-ni style, finished with a little sea urchin stirred in at the end.

Small Sea Bream Wrapped in Okara and Deep-Fried

Snow crab meat

Thin kuzu-starch broth style

Ark shell, hard clam, and rapeseed blossoms, sea bream roe simmered to absorb the broth, herring-roe wakame, fava beans simmered green, kuruma prawn for color, sardine and soybean stew, Kyoto carrot cut into plum blossoms

Duck manju

Herring wrapped in wakame, mugwort wheat gluten wrapped in bamboo shoot inner skin, simmered conger eel in a paper-thin wrap, kuruma prawn minced-prawn cake, tube-cut burdock, plum-shaped carrot, butterbur simmered green

Kelp steamed fish cake

For the clear-soup course, I made three kinds in the Kanto style using hanpen (steamed fish cake). The difference between hanpen and shinjo, as I was…

Suppon soup bowl course, scallion stuffed with suppon

For the clear-soup course, simmering vegetables in softshell turtle broth makes them extremely delicious, so this time I simmered grilled daikon in…