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Kochi Tebako Pheasant 'Zōni'

This is the simmered dish from Kochi's New Year and regional home-style cuisine. Tebako Pheasant Zōni uses 'Tebako pheasant,' raised on Mt. Tebako at…

• Serves 1 · ¥555

• Cook time 40 min

Beltfish and Sweet Potato Oharagi-Age

This time, we learned about "fried dishes" from Master Instructor Maeda (Okunitama Shrine Wedding Hall). We feature "oharagi-age."

Spring sea bream grilled with cherry blossom fragrance, saimaki prawn temari sushi, bamboo shoot in sansho-leaf dressing

A lively presentation is the charm of this grilled-course hassun. "Since this was meant as a menu for cherry-blossom-viewing season, I decided to go…

"Shifting vegetables" parfait — burdock cracker, snap pea, green peas, fava bean, butterbur sprout, fiddlehead fern, micro tomato, kabocha squash, potato

This dish had its start about five years ago, when I served a meal at a nursing home. Seeing how happily the residents ate it, I thought about how I…

Potato, Octopus, and Kabocha Squash, Tender-Simmered Live Octopus

"Drawing out the appeal of Hokkaido's overwintered vegetables." The overwintered vegetables used here are Niseko 540 potato and Dark Horse kabocha…

• Serves 1 · ¥620

• Cook time 2 hr

Shrimp, pumpkin, fu, and green beans in tofu dressing

This is about pumpkin (kabocha). Looking into the literature, there are fairly well-established temperatures and times at which pectin sets, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Kabocha Squash with Sesame Dressing, Molded and Deep-Fried

This is a kabocha squash dish. Consulting the literature, the temperature and time at which pectin hardens and at which a vegetable breaks down are…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 5 min

Kabocha squash manju chawanmushi with an oolong tea aroma

This is a steamed dish made with oolong tea. For the kabocha manju chawanmushi, I used an oolong that's clean and light, without any off-flavors, to…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 30 min

Chilled verdant egg custard, sardine simmered Arima-style with sansho pepper, pumpkin castella sponge cake, coin-cut octopus fragrant fried, white melon tossed with bottarga, asparagus and bacon egg-yolk grilled, cheese tofu, pork belly simmered Yoshino-style with a kuzu-thickened sauce, hydrangea-style egg, and squid two-color grill

This is the appetizers course. For the chilled verdant egg custard, after making an egg tofu, I puree it in a mixer, combine it with gelatin and…

• ¥300

• Cook time 2 days

Kabocha Manju with Scallion-Ginger Sauce

For the kabocha manju with scallion sauce, I braise Kagoshima kurobuta (a prized black-pig pork breed) pork belly until tender and use it, along with…

• Serves 20 · ¥196

• Cook time 1 hr

Crystal aspic

For the chilled simmered course, I designed it with couples in their thirties in mind, around the concept of “a refreshing concentration of dashi's…

• ¥180

• Cook time 40 min

Octopus simmered in shio-koji, abalone simmered with rice, Kurosengoku black soybeans and lily bulb chakin, sweet-savory sautéed overwintered burdock

This is an appetizer using Hokkaido's overwintered squash and overwintered burdock. The flavor of the Yukigesho kabocha (a snow-white Hokkaido…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 min

Chilled savory black tea water-bead jelly

A tea's flavor matters, but I think its aroma is one of the great pleasures too, and with the idea that a variety of aromas can be enjoyed through…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Roasted Joshu Beef, Grilled Fig and Cheese

This is the grilled course. The roasted Joshu beef with chocolate-miso sauce was devised on the idea that combining the mellowness of miso with the…

• ¥637

• Cook time 1 hr

Pear and steamed abalone, oil-blanched octopus, Ishikawa taro and kabocha shaped like an areca nut, kombu-cured horse mackerel with ominaeshi flower, beef tongue in aspic, paired kuruma prawns, corn tofu

This is the appetizer course. For pear and steamed abalone, pear is knife-cut and steamed abalone is placed on top of it, with passion-fruit egg-yolk…

• ¥1,920

• Cook time 2 hr

Cream cheese kuzu tofu, Miura-style chilled scrambled egg, summer vegetable namasu pickled in salt-koji and honey

This is a seasonal-vegetable course. Since there is little seafood available to use in summer, I built the menu around vegetables. Cream cheese kuzu…

• ¥120

• Cook time 1 days

Assorted Sprouting Spring Vegetables and Fresh Fish

This is a sashimi dish I devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. For the assorted sprouting spring vegetables and fresh fish, since…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Sweetfish simmered in miso and steeped for fragrance, chestnut kabocha mousse, Kamo eggplant mousse, tomato mousse, pike conger with grated plum sauce

For the ayu simmered in miso and steeped for fragrance: remove the ayu's backbone and stuff the cavity with chopped myoga ginger and ginger, then use…

Octopus, Taro, Kabocha Squash, Green Beans, and Yuzu

This is a kabocha squash dish. Consulting the literature, the temperature and time at which pectin hardens and at which a vegetable breaks down are…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Autumn Raw Seafood Hassun

The dry-ice presentation contributes to the excitement of the banquet.

Grilled and marinated salmon with seasonal colors

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: salmon yaki-zuke Looking back on the history of dishes that have been eaten since long ago…

• Serves 4 · ¥198.3

• Cook time 1 hr

Young Chicken in Milky White Sauce

Young chicken, steamed and pan-fried, in milky white sauce: steaming the chicken alone wouldn't feel like much of a change, so after steaming it I…

• ¥145

• Cook time 40 min

Seven fortunes, sevenfold luck

I created this under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." First is a warm dish. Titled Shichifuku Shichi'un, I chose seven ingredients whose Japanese…

• Serves 1 · ¥380

• Cook time 2 days

Joshu Black Wagyu Low-Temperature Roast Beef

This is a shiizakana, a hearty course. This dish is themed around Gunma Prefecture's Tomioka Silk Mill, famous for sericulture. By braiding Joshu…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,120

• Cook time 1 hr