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Yuba deep-fried in kadaif, isobe-style

Even without using any meat, it's plenty satisfying to eat.

Oil-grilled pike conger, salt-grilled striped jack

For the grilled course, the salt-grilled shima-aji, we serve the collar of the shima-aji salt-grilled. Then there's the hamo. By September, if we…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,160

• Cook time 20 min

Seared pen shell clam and sea urchin hand roll

The distinctive crunch of the pen shell clam and the crisp bite of Manganji pepper are gently wrapped in the mellow sweetness of sea urchin. Searing…

• ¥500

• Cook time 20 min

Barracuda pot-cooked rice (leek, ginger, shiso, chives, sudachi, scallion oil)

This time, on 'the rice course,' I learned from chef Kimizuka (Yoyogi, Shiki no Aji Horikawa). This time I take up 'kama-daki gohan.'

Three-year fugu, thin-sliced sashimi winter vegetable roll

This sashimi course is only possible thanks to fugu in season. For the Three-Year Fugu Usu-zukuri with Winter Vegetable Roll, the thin-sliced sashimi…

• Serves 3 · ¥2,300

• Cook time 1 hr

Charcoal-Grilled Tiger Fugu, Zenmaru Shiitake, Scallion Sprouts, Sudachi

Tiger fugu, which is normally enjoyed with the flavor of salt or soy sauce, we serve marinated in shuto (fermented salted bonito innards) broth and…

• Serves 1 · ¥720

• Cook time 30 min

Small sea bream steamed with okara, silver sauce

This is the steamed dish from Kochi's New Year cuisine. Kodai Soy pulp-Mushi with Silver Sauce gives a modern update to soy pulp-mushi, a dish long…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Shirako tofu spring roll with arrowhead bulb and sudachi

When wrapping the shirako tofu in spring-roll pastry, I add a little powdered karasumi and Kikuhime daiginjo sake lees — the karasumi adds salinity…

Salt-seared bonito with Takaoka fruit-tomato salad, vinegared moray eel, juvenile conger eel with garlic nuta

This is the vinegared dish from Kochi's New Year cuisine. As for the salt-seared bonito — katsuo no tataki, Kochi's signature dish, is usually eaten…

• Serves 1 · ¥750

• Cook time 40 min

Steamed Turnip with Pufferfish Milt and Silver Sauce

As it's the cold December season, we begin with a hot dish: steamed turnip topped with fugu milt and a silver sauce. We place grilled fugu milt over…

• ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Eel and collagen rice porridge — the synergy of three collagen soups

As part of an effort to cope with rising food costs, the concept behind this meal course is "synergy." When steaming plain-grilled eel, the water in…

• Serves 2 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Kamo eggplant clear-soup course — golden eye snapper, red shrimp, water shield, sudachi

For the soup course, it's important to time the preparation of each ingredient so that the dish tastes best at the moment the soup ingredients are…

The blessings of Hyogo's five provinces -- Settsu bamboo shoot grilled in the style of Nada's five sake districts; Harima bamboo shoot in vinegar jelly flavored with its tender inner sheath; Tajima bamboo shoot with firefly squid and egg-yolk vinegar sauce; Tamba bamboo shoot, black bean, and mountain yam wrapped in yuba and deep-fried; Awaji bamboo shoot and needle-cut squid in sansho-leaf miso

We combined the wonderful spring ingredients of the five regions within Hyogo Prefecture -- Settsu, Harima, Tajima, Tamba, and Awaji -- each rich in…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,420

• Cook time 2 days

Eel deep-fried wrapped in yuba

This is the fried course. For the eel tōji-age, I butterfly the eel, grill it plain without sauce, steam it, then finish it glazed with sweet soy…

• ¥600

• Cook time 20 min

Deep-Fried Eel with Corn and Vegetables

At the restaurant where I work, we're used to handling freshwater fish, so I felt this eel theme was approachable, but I also took on a dish I'd…

• Serves 1 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Flathead and giant Pacific octopus, cocktail-style

For the kochi and mizudako cocktail-style: if you use too little dill when tossing it, the fragrance turns muddy, so use a generous amount and go…

Swordtip squid nigiri, salt, sudachi

By scoring it finely with the knife, we increase the squid's surface area, making its umami easier to sense on the tongue. We want guests to fully…

Fuku deep-fried in egg-yolk batter, clam deep-fried in a freshly milled rice-flour coating, black soybean deep-fried in a fawn-spotted coating

This is the deep-fried course. For the fuku deep-fried in egg-yolk batter, since it's the New Year I call the fugu "fuku" — a play on the word for…

• ¥560

• Cook time 20 min

Deep-fried shark fin wrapped in yuba, miso-stuffed dried sea cucumber in a coarsely milled crumb coating, deep-fried

This is the fried course. Here we meet Chinese ingredients. The shark fin is rehydrated, and its flavor evened out with dashi, asatsuyu (a light…

Grilled White Tilefish and Matsutake Roll, with Marinated Manganji Peppers

White tilefish (shiro-amadai) is wonderful for its rich fattiness and the clear, pale beauty of its scales when scored into a pinecone pattern, so…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,800

• Cook time 30 min

Seared Ezo Deer Ham

This is an eel specialty shop, but I'd like to introduce work that can be done on the charcoal grill stand. The charcoal grill stand is about half…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 5 days