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The meal course is fugu ojiya. It may be a matter of preference, but I feel fugu suits ojiya, a heartier rice porridge, better than it suits zōsui, a…

The grilled course is cooked over a charcoal brazier. When first draining the blood from the karasumi (bottarga) with a needle, if you're not careful…

Japanese Restaurant Uogetsu
Hiroyuki Naito
Another dish is the purple sweet potato and apple, Hakata-style (layered so the cut cross-section shows colored stripes). Normally, when we serve…

Japanese Restaurant Uogetsu
Hiroyuki Naito
These are deep-fried lotus mochi dumplings. We fry them quickly at high heat, but we want to finish them without letting the heat fully penetrate the…

Japanese Restaurant Uogetsu
Hiroyuki Naito
First, the two-color carrot jelly has a texture softer than yokan, the firm sweet bean jelly it's compared to. The color forms two layers, but I…

For the substitute bowl course (kawaribachi), the papaya bowl needs alignment marks so the lid closes properly every time. When we serve it, we have…

For the taro arare-age in the takidashi preparation, I have tried taro from various growing regions, but this taro is extremely sticky and creamy…

The 'sea-ranched fugu' used in the sashimi preparation is of high quality, and there is really no inferiority compared to wild-caught fish. However…

At times, our restaurant serves food to as many as 500 guests. When that happens, dishes served in individual soup bowls inevitably go cold, so what…

First is the assorted small-dishes course. For the molded whale terrine with mustard vinegar-miso sauce, if you set it too firm, the umami is cut in…
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