
Tsukiji Tamura
Plump deep-fried shiitake
The deep-fried course, daifuku shiitake and simmered abalone, is made by cutting shiitake mushrooms, skewering them on bamboo skewers, and…

Tsukiji Tamura
The deep-fried course, daifuku shiitake and simmered abalone, is made by cutting shiitake mushrooms, skewering them on bamboo skewers, and…

Tsukiji Tamura
The grilled course is chicken tenderloin and maitake mushroom hoba-yaki. Hoba-yaki tends to bring to mind long green onion, but onion has sweetness…

Tsukiji Tamura
This is the square-cut turnip in the clear-soup course. Cutting turnip into squares leaves trimmings around the edges, so we grate those trimmings…

Tsukiji Tamura
(Looking back on the year with delicacies of the twelve zodiac animals, over a drink — all of it gentle on the body and low in calories.) We began…

Tsukiji Tamura
(Looking back on the year with delicacies of the twelve zodiac animals, over a drink — all of it gentle on the body and low in calories.) We began…

Tsukiji Tamura
(Looking back on the year with delicacies of the twelve zodiac animals, over a drink — all of it gentle on the body and low in calories.) We began…

Tsukiji Tamura
(Looking back on the year with delicacies of the twelve zodiac animals, over a drink — all of it gentle on the body and low in calories.) We began…

Tsukiji Tamura
Looking back on the year with delicacies of the twelve zodiac animals, over a drink — all of it gentle on the body and low in calories. We began…

Tsukiji Tamura
(Looking back on the year with delicacies of the twelve zodiac animals, over a drink — all of it gentle on the body and low in calories.) We began…

Tsukiji Tamura
(Looking back on the year with delicacies of the twelve zodiac animals, over a drink — all of it gentle on the body and low in calories.) We began…

Tsukiji Tamura
(Looking back on the year with delicacies of the twelve zodiac animals, over a drink — all of it gentle on the body and low in calories.) We began…

Tsukiji Tamura
(Looking back on the year with delicacies of the twelve zodiac animals, over a drink — all of it gentle on the body and low in calories.) We began…

Tsukiji Tamura
(Looking back on the year with delicacies of the twelve zodiac animals, over a drink — all of it gentle on the body and low in calories.) We began…

Tsukiji Tamura
(Looking back on the year with delicacies of the twelve zodiac animals, over a drink — all of it gentle on the body and low in calories.) We began…

Tsukiji Tamura
(A drink shared over delicacies for the twelve zodiac animals, looking back on the year — all of it gentle on the body and low in calories.) We have…

For the deep-fried scallop rice among the fried dishes, we cook glutinous rice with 10 percent black rice mixed in, keeping it a little firm, and…

As for the stone-wall-style grilled shinjo among the grilled dishes: we peel Ishikawa taro, a satoimo cultivar, coat it in squid ink, and let it rest…

For the kinko ikomi in the clear soup, we soak the kinko (a prized species of sea cucumber) in water mixed with straw ash and leave it for about…

The bekko-ni beef tendon in the simmered course took its inspiration from Korean cooking. Rice bran works too, but we reconstitute the beef Achilles…

For the sayori kirazu sushi, we blanch the okara — also called kirazu — briefly in hot water and squeeze it dry, season it the same way as sushi…

The gourd-shaped taro set in mint gelée doesn't match the season for this shape, but we made it into an attractive hyōtan (bottle-gourd) form…

For the tube-cut burdock coated in shrimp powder, we dry and toast tiny opossum shrimp, grind them finely in a mortar, pass them through a sieve…
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