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Oil-steamed fall-run sweetfish, pinecone-cut Pacific saury with almond, whelk risotto in a turnip bowl, beef loin and green bean old-branch-style sticks, Ohara-style deep-fried taro shinjo, color-simmered long eggplant with peanut-kuzu sauce, jade ginkgo cracker with tofu dressing, dried persimmon with lily bulb, ginkgo-leaf-shaped tricolor sweet potato

A repeat-visit dish for guests in their twenties and thirties Visual impact that makes you want to take a photo Given this theme, I first thought…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 3 hr

Tosa Akaushi tataki

This is the palate-cleanser course from Kochi's New Year cuisine. Tosa Akaushi Tataki pairs Tosa's own breed of Japanese red beef, buntan citrus, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 30 min

Molded ark shell, baby turban shell grilled with wakame, whiting sushi wrapped chimaki-style, Hakata-style duck white loin, pale-poached, dried shrimp and tomato, lightly marinated, sea bream roe jelly

This is the appetizers course. For the baby turban shell grilled with wakame, I bring out the color of the wakame and blend it in a mixer, then blend…

Crossbred duck loin

Water shield, yōrō-style jelly

This is an appetizer (sakizuke) — junsai in yōrō-style jelly. Since junsai is quite watery, it is best to drain it well before setting it into the…

Loquat egg, butterbur and tiny shrimp in soy dressing, pike conger sushi, foie gras in gourd-shaped tofu, small melon, molded, cream cheese cherry, salted sweetfish-innard dressing

For the appetizer's loquat egg, a soft-cooked egg marinated in miso is styled to look like a loquat with sesame seeds and fried burdock. For the…

Spanish mackerel grilled with a vegetable stuffing and sweet potato, aigamo duck "spring mountain", peeled tomato in a yuzu-citrus vinegar, pufferfish milt in a cloth-wrung purse, sweet shrimp with egg yolk and salted fish innards, roe-bearing ayu simmered with sansho pepper, thin daikon tied into firewood bundles

First, the appetizer is a seven-item assortment. For the Spanish mackerel kenchin-yaki with sweet potato, the Spanish mackerel is prepared…

Sweet potato simmered with sugar, Kyoto-style, duck pickled in kyo-koji, hairy crab hermit-crab-style with gelatin vinegar, and more

For the duck kyo-koji pickle, the fatty side of the duck is first seared to render off some fat, then steeped overnight in kyo-koji. The duck is then…

Pike Conger Blanched, Local Octopus Seared, Kuruma Prawn Oil-Blanched

For the kuruma prawn oil-blanched, we cook the prawn by passing it briefly through oil. With the pike conger, octopus, and kuruma prawn alike, not…

Naruto-style deep-fried beltfish, mantis shrimp bundled like firewood, edamame mixed fritter

This is the deep-fried course. For the edamame kakiage: edamame beans with their thin skins removed are bound together in a light batter and…

Satsuki tofu

For the appetizer I made satsuki tofu — really a shuto tofu, meaning tofu mixed with fermented bonito innards. I named it satsuki, the old name for…

Steamed and Simmered Wagyu Beef

This is soup course one (Abu). This is Japanese Polled beef, a hornless wagyu breed. When the beef knuckle is steamed and simmered, then sliced, it…