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Shinshu-style steamed tilefish with tea soba, shredded scallion, wasabi, and thickened seasoned dashi sauce

This time, on 'steamed dishes,' I learned from instructor Shimada (Ginza Kasuga). I take up 'Shinshū-mushi.'

Assorted platter: nanban-style grilled barracuda, kabosu simmered in light syrup, Uda-kin burdock, tilefish with black rice, avocado baked in its shell, three kinds of rolled deep-fry

During the pandemic there was a period when ingredients were hard to come by, so I had to cook with whatever limited ingredients I had on hand. I'd…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,570

• Cook time 50 min

Tilefish and karasumi clear-soup, finished with more karasumi and a yuzu crowning garnish

The balance between the saltiness of the karasumi and the flavor of the tilefish is superb.

Wakasa-style grilled tilefish

For the yakimono tilefish wakasa-yaki, the tilefish is wind-dried, brushed lightly with light soy sauce, and grilled over a distant flame so the skin…

Tilefish and early matsutake sandwiched and grilled, beltfish tazuna-yaki, shrimp shinjo naruto, and other dishes

The tachiuo tazuna-yaki: weave the tachiuo into a rein shape, sandwich burdock inside, and salt-grill it. The squid kimi-yaki: salt bigfin reef squid…

Guji and Matsutake Clear-Soup Course, Sous-Vide

This is a proposal for matsutake cuisine with a new sense of value. I myself have long experience studying Kyoto cuisine, and I like the philosophy…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 10 min

Tilefish Grilled with Shuto-Koji, New Bamboo Shoot Grilled with Sake and Salt

For the tilefish grilled with shuto-koji, I use amazake (fermented sweet rice drink). To make the amazake, I cook rice porridge at a ratio of three…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Snow crab cedar-plank bake, duck roast with black pepper, tilefish ponzu jelly, clam kuzu simmer, sake-simmered saimaki prawn, rolled plum sheet and sake lees, Hakata-style, sweet chestnut mash, apple and dried persimmon in tofu dressing

For the snow crab cedar-plank bake, I use snow crab at its best during the Minor Cold season, in early January, and steam-bake it on a cedar plank to…

• ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Tilefish Matsukasa-age, with Sweet-and-Sour Thickened Sauce

Pine-cone-style fried tilefish is a classic dish, but I wanted to add a bit of a twist to the flavor. Wanting to serve it in the style of the Chinese…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 20 min

Tilefish grilled with three flavors, hairy crab, late-season matsutake wrapped in Joshu pork, Joshu pork spare ribs, Joshu pork heart and liver

For the grilled course, I tried smoke-grilling using an Iga-nabe (Iga pot). This Iga-nabe has a distinctive shape and a very strong far-infrared…

Tilefish and Tennoji turnip, steamed with a foie gras filling

This makes use of Tennoji turnip at the end of its season. Two years ago I transferred to the Hotel New Otani Osaka, and getting to know the…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,800

• Cook time 30 min

Turnip-steamed tilefish (ginkgo nuts, shimeji, wood ear mushroom, Domyoji rice)

This time, on 'steamed dishes,' I learned from chef Yamamoto (Azabu-Jūban, Azabu Nagasaka Sarashina Honten). This time I take up 'kabura-mushi.'

Aperitif: chrysanthemum sake, prime hairy crab, steamed salted sea cucumber intestines from Kaneko, conger eel grilled with tofu skin, soy pulp, seared-and-chilled surf clam in white vinegar dressing, bottarga, eel liver in walnut vinegar

This is the sake-pairing course. In keeping with the theme, the aperitif is also chrysanthemum sake. Chrysanthemum dew is said to promote longevity…

Tilefish, kombu-cured, with Yamato-style fresh nori terrine, kombu-cured white melon, flower-cut cucumber, needle-cut myoga, and kombu-vinegar sauce

This time, on 'vinegared dishes,' I learned from chef Nakamura (Ryōtei Chiyoda). This time I take up 'kombu-jime.'

Cherry-blossom turnip, tilefish sakura-steamed, ball-shaped potato

Three small simmered dishes. For the cherry-blossom turnip, the turnip is carved with a knife into a cherry-blossom shape, filled with sakura shrimp…

• Serves 10 · ¥1,300

• Cook time 40 min

Winter melon steamed dumpling

This is a chilled dish. For the winter melon manjū, the winter melon is peeled, salted, then blanched and refreshed in hot water. After that, it is…

Oyster miso, tilefish hiryōzu-style deep-fry (Ishinomaki's traditional food culture: 'Oyster')

This is the fried course. I took up oysters from Ishinomaki City, where oyster farming has long been thriving. In Ishinomaki, oysters are farmed in…

• Serves 1 · ¥436

• Cook time 1 days

Blended-dashi clear soup: autumn-brocade tilefish and turnip, habutae-steamed; matsutake with sprouted scallion; garnish of hail-cut yuzu

When folding the grated turnip into the meringue, it's important not to overmix — I think it's best to fold it in loosely, leaving the fluffy texture…

Tilefish wrapped in woven eggplant

This is the soup course. For the tilefish wrapped in woven eggplant (ajiro), the eggplant is deep-fried once, its skin peeled off under running…

Dual-purpose ingredient dish: steamed in a decorative box

During the pandemic there was a period when ingredients were hard to come by, so I had to cook with whatever limited ingredients I had on hand. I'd…

• Serves 1 · ¥835

• Cook time 20 min

Tilefish kenchin-style grilled, lily bulb and purple sweet potato chakin, young pickled ginger shoot

This time, on 'grilled dishes,' I learned from chef Itō (Suitengū's 'Nihon Ryōri Sakura'). This time I take up 'kenchin-yaki.'

Tilefish grilled with a sake-soy glaze, grilled horse meat loin, eggplant tofu, salmon wrapped in napa cabbage, golden lily bulb, fig pickled in lemon, sweet potato twisted-strip deep-fry, raw salmon roe marinated in soy sauce

For the grilled course's tilefish Wakasa-yaki, since the scales were removed from the tilefish, I tried grilling it slowly over low heat so the skin…

White tilefish, rolled and cut into mallet-shaped rounds, local alfonsino in a cloth-wrung purse shape

This is the simmered assortment course. As for the okitsudai kinuta-maki, okitsudai refers to white tilefish. This time, adding the extra step of…

• ¥840

• Cook time 2 hr

Wakasa flounder with sansho-leaf vinegar, tilefish grilled Arashiyama-style, beef tongue set into a square, kuruma prawn simmered shiba-style, smoked salmon and cucumber rolled in kombu

This is the grilled-dish hassun course. For the Wakasa flounder with kinome vinegar, I grind kinome in a suribachi mortar and mix it with grated…