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Dashing Ichimatsu-Pattern Box Sushi

A repeat-visit dish for guests in their twenties and thirties Building excitement for the moment the lid is lifted Given this theme, I first thought…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 20 min

Beltfish steamed diamond-scored, conger eel rolled and wrapped in tofu skin, scallop glazed with egg yolk, abalone sake-seared, jade-green winter melon, baby taro simmered pale, and string beans with plum paste

For the scallop egg-yolk glazed, I coat the scallop with egg yolk and drop it into a bonito dashi broth, adding both color and flavor. For the…

• ¥100

• Cook time 1 hr

Salted pollock roe sunrise roll, conger eel naruto-style spiral roll, tender-simmered octopus, glossy simmered dried cod

This is a celebratory New Year tiered box. It was designed to be colorful and to keep well, so that families gathered together could enjoy a relaxed…

• ¥3,000

• Cook time 2 days

Conger eel rolled in thin overlapping daikon layers, icefish fried in a green-herb batter, turnip simmered white, and butterbur wrapped in fried tofu skin

This is the simmered course. For the conger eel sendan-maki, daikon is cut into thick rotary-peeled ribbons and rolled around simmered conger eel…

• ¥40

• Cook time 15 min

Brown rice coffee, charred tea snack

Charring is an old technique in Japan; I first learned of it back when I studied macrobiotics. Carbonizing ingredients in a Vermicular oven takes…

• ¥180

• Cook time 5 min

Sparrow-shaped deep-fried flounder, conger eel rolled in shredded egg and deep-fried, plain deep-fried clam, shrimp deep-fried straw-cape-style, steamed fish cake deep-fried into a rice-bale shape

This is a deep-fried dish. The sparrow-shaped deep-fried flounder is fried to resemble a sparrow. Both fillets are opened out to the fin edge, and…

• ¥2,500

• Cook time 15 min

Conger eel simmered pale, flesh-side out, yuba tofu, small prawn

This is the simmered assortment course. The key to the conger eel simmered pale, flesh-side out, is carefully turning the eel inside out so its flesh…

Ice-rinsed young sea bass, quick-blanched conger eel, squid, kombu-cured halfbeak, colorful shrimp

This is the sashimi course. At the restaurant, we sometimes show guests the fish before it is prepared. In June, white-fleshed fish are the mainstay…

• ¥810

• Cook time 2 hr