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Deep-Fried Juvenile Ayu, Sake-Steamed Icefish, Tamagoyaki, Bamboo Shoot Kinpira, Octopus Ogura-Ni

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Juvenile ayu deep-fried with sansho leaf buds

These days, I think the restaurant industry is having a hard time due to a labor shortage. On top of that, we're operating in a very tough…

• Serves 1 · ¥680

• Cook time 20 min

Pen shell, cockle, and Welsh onion with vinegar-miso, Japanese halfbeak and squid ball-shaped sushi, baby turban shell baked with cream, young ayu deep-fried in a roasted-grain coating, beef loin rolled with butterbur, and cheese and salmon terrine

Steaming the beef loin and fuki roll once beforehand makes it easier to hold together, allowing the work to go smoothly. When preparing a large…

Shrimp and baby bamboo shoots grilled in hōjicha, pen shell with young greens, stream trout, young sweetfish simmered matsumae-style, beef in cherry-leaf wrap, matcha tofu

This is an appetizer course. For the halfbeak in white-vinegar dressing, the tofu is scalded in kōfuki-cha and drained. Kōfuki-cha is a fermented tea…

'Seasonal colors on green bamboo': trough shell clam with vinegared myoga and egg-yolk vinegar, young ayu and baby corn wrapped in conger eel and deep-fried fragrant, Yanaka ginger deep-fried in tea leaves, baby octopus simmered in black tea, baby tiger prawn simmered in lemon tea, Japanese whiting grilled with egg yolk, baby turban shell simmered in black tea escargot-style, and two kinds of tea-rice chimaki

This is a piece of Japanese-cuisine development built around imported teas. The teas used are 'honey-fragrance black tea, green tea (Cuiluo), dark…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,338

• Cook time 2 hr

Sea urchin terrine; herring roe on kelp stuffed into udo; mantis shrimp with young greens; octopus in jellied simmer; young ayu simmered Koshu-style; halfbeak cured shobu-style; duck 'rock' terrine

For the appetizer's young ayu simmered Koshu-style, since it is young ayu the bones are not much of a hindrance, but I still simmer it until tender…

Beef-Wrapped Grilled Bamboo Shoot, Cherry-Blossom-Viewing Skewers, and More

For the appetizer's morel mushroom stuffed with crab: the morel rehydrates quite well just by soaking it in lukewarm water. I think it's best to…

Chinese yam noodles, mock tofu, conger eel rolled around burdock root, young sweetfish in gabion-style sweet potato, Ishikawa taro with cheese miso

This is the appetizer course. For the gisei-dofu, I sauté tofu that has been passed through a sieve together with burdock, carrot, shiitake mushroom…

Baby sweetfish deep-fried live, two-color croquettes

This is the fried dish course. For the two-color croquettes, I make the croquettes with foie gras and anchovy, seasoned so they can be eaten with…

• ¥200

• Cook time 1 hr

Halfbeak rolled around burdock and deep-fried, juvenile sweetfish deep-fried with a decorative coating, and angelica-tree shoot deep-fried in egg-yolk batter

This is the deep-fried course. For the tara-no-me kimi-age, we combine tara-no-me with hard-boiled egg yolk and raw egg yolk to make the egg-yolk…

Wild sweetfish fragrant deep-fry, new burdock Rikyū-style deep-fry, broad bean and prawn sandwich deep-fry, and first-flush new tea

For the deep-fried course's Rikyū-style new burdock, the new burdock is cut, seasoned by cooking it kinpira-style before frying, air-dried, coated…

Baby sweetfish thread-wrapped deep-fry in two colors, layered bamboo shoot fritter

This is a fried course. Baby ayu ito-maki: potato and purple sweet potato cut into long fine threads, soaked, parboiled, then coated with potato…

Eel grilled as cattail spikes, salt-grilled young ayu, young sea bass oil-passed grill

This is the grilled course. To evoke a June waterside scene, I styled the eel as cattail flower spikes. The cattail spike is also the origin of the…

Abalone simmered until tender, paddy-grown Japanese parsley grilled with pine nuts, assorted spring wild greens, grilled young sweetfish with vinegar dressing, deep-fried and simmered sea bream roe

The first course is abalone simmered until tender. It's a standard dish, but abalone really is the thing for summer. I didn't discard the innards --…

Charcoal-Grilled Young Sweetfish

Under the theme "sauce," I also looked at some Western-style recipes for reference. I personally enjoy creative-style cooking too, so even though…

• Serves 2 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 min