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Steamed Rice with Simmered Clam, Persimmon Momiji-Age, Duck and Tomato Stew, Pacific Saury Yawata-Maki

For the steamed rice with simmered clam, we quickly simmer clams in a sweet-savory sauce, mix them with steamed glutinous rice and salmon roe, and…

Hairy crab, daikon, and clam simmered in milky broth

This is a simmered dish introduced from our restaurant's popular autumn menu. Hairy crab can be harvested year-round, but this is a dish we like to…

• Serves 10 · ¥13,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Twisted-rein-grilled sea bream and bamboo shoot, freeze-dried konjac sake-lees pickle, dried persimmon and cheese coin-cut, clam wrapped in new potato mousse, butterbur sprout simmered and steeped

For the large-plate course, the freeze-dried konjac narazuke: slice the konjac thin, freeze it into shimi-konnyaku, then thaw it and turn it into…

Sea cucumber roe paste, orchid-flower garnish, cuttlefish dressed with sansho-leaf miso, clam and tender bamboo-shoot inner sheath in a misty jelly, halfbeak grilled with bottarga, small egg-filled octopus, rapeseed blossoms

An appetizer course. This is a five-item plate built around the three great delicacies — sea urchin, karasumi, and salted sea cucumber intestines…

Kombu-cured flounder Hakata, bottarga and daikon Hakata, herring roe in snow, miso-marinated abalone, clam and turnip sushi, lily bulb monaka

These are the appetizers, but before the dishes themselves, let me say a word about the tableware. Last year Chūson-ji Konjiki-dō in Hiraizumi, Iwate…

Hamaguri clam and shiratama dumplings

Tortoiseshell-cut shrimp-shaped taro, clam shinjo

With the tortoiseshell-cut ebi-imo and the crane-shaped daikon, I express the crane and tortoise, and with the sunrise carrot I express the year's…

• ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Clam and Hoshiko Layers, and More

As an appetizer, the clam and hoshiko layers might be a bit extravagant, but it's a delicious dish. For the king crab, aromatic-grilled with egg-yolk…

Smoked cherry-simmered baby octopus, clams and wild mountain vegetables with egg-yolk vinegar sauce, three-color mousse

First, this is a set of three appetizers. For the smoked iidako sakura-ni, we clean the iidako, quick-blanch it, then season it with a ratio of five…

Usui pea pureed soup

This is the clear-soup course. For the soup base, a foundational mixture is first made from puréed usui beans passed through a sieve, dashi, and…

Crab pureed soup with light kuzu thickening, clam fish-paste dumpling

This dish is the clam shinjo soup course. I felt that a plain ushio-jiru, a clear broth seasoned simply with salt, made only with clams would be…

Butterbur in salad dressing, clam sushi, bamboo shoot inner lining with salted seafood dressing

This is course one. As for the clam sushi — at our restaurant we always include sushi in the first course. Guests generally start drinking around six…

Three-Color Diamond Tofu

This is the clear-soup course. The three-color diamond tofu is an egg tofu, a steamed egg custard. The bottom-most green layer uses parsley — parsley…

Rabbit-shaped Yamato yam, two-aroma bottarga, ball-shaped arrowhead-tuber egg-yolk sushi, black soybean-wrapped shrimp 'rock', stuffed clam with sake-lees-pickled daylily shoots

The appetizer's rabbit-shaped yamato yam is steamed yamato yam pressed through a fine sieve, shaped to resemble a rabbit. It's kneaded and shaped by…

Grilled Clam Variation, Sawara Cherry-Blossom Grill

This is the grilled course. For the grilled clam variation, the clam is first cooked through in sake diluted with water, given a little color under…

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

Clam rikyu-ni and sake-steamed icefish in a mascarpone ponzu; kuruma prawn with seared bottarga gelée

For the clam Rikyu-ni and sake-steamed icefish in mascarpone ponzu, the clams are dropped into kombu-infused hot water without overcooking them, and…

Clam amber aspic

This is the appetizer course. The key to finishing the clams beautifully in the clam amber aspic is to sink the clams, still in their paired shells…

Clam and egg-yolk shinjo, spring daikon and crab set with kuzu, oil-steamed rockfish

This is a takiawase, a simmered assortment. For the clam and egg-yolk shinjo, shinjo dishes tend to taste similar no matter what, so this time I…

Kashima clam fish-paste dumpling

Dressed with irizake

The appetizer course should be something we can serve guests right away and that pairs well with sake — and since it's the first thing served, we try…

Summer Vegetable Surinagashi

For the summer vegetable pureed soup, Romanesco and onion are simmered together with hard clams and bacon; once the dashi flavor has come out, the…

Chicken grunt and bamboo shoot square-cut grilled, clam uni-grilled, and pen shell egg-yolk grilled

For the grilled course's isaki-and-bamboo-shoot sandwiched grilled, I use only the root end of the bamboo shoot, score it with the knife, and steep…

Saffron-Style Clear Soup

This is the clear-soup course: a saffron-style preparation. Our head chef, Komatsuzaki, used to serve this in a soup bowl, but I made it in a small…

• ¥930

• Cook time 30 min