HomeJapanese FoodKaiseki meal served at Yasuna restaurant in Arita, Saga, Japan. Can anyone help me identify the food that was served? Some of it was a total mystery.
Kaiseki meal served at Yasuna restaurant in Arita, Saga, Japan. Can anyone help me identify the food that was served? Some of it was a total mystery.
Kaiseki meal served at Yasuna restaurant in Arita, Saga, Japan. Can anyone help me identify the food that was served? Some of it was a total mystery.
With 100% certainty I can tell you that the red thing on the right is a strawberry
Sloppiest kaiseki plating I’ve ever seen.
Prawn, 12 o’,clock
I’ve never seen kaiseki thrown together in one plate/box. 😒
The white, longish vegetable with ridges should be bamboo.
I have to guess on some of these.
– The small bowl in the top left to the left of the bird looks like mozuku-su which is a type of seaweed common around Okinawa. Usually dark colored strands that have a slippery texture.
– To the right of that, the yellow thing, I’m assuming you know is tamogoyaki / egg omelet.
– On top of the egg is shrimp and lotus root and possibly satsumaimo / sweet potato.
– The two items in shells are sazae / turban shell / sea snail.
– The green thing on top of the sweet potato and to the right is warabi which is a mountain vegetable.
– The white thing just under and to the left of the warabi looks like yuba / “tofu skin” which is the thin protein that forms on top when making tofu.
– The pink and white item is nama-fu which is wheat gluten.
– To the right of that is bamboo shoot.
– In front of the bamboo shoot looks like it could be something in a gelatin mold. Usually it’s some type of protein.
– To the left of that in the container in the front might be anago / salt water eel or some type of fish.
– To the left of that is shirahana mame which is a type of white bean.
– Behind the white bean looks like pork?
– To the left of the pork might be something with a puffed rice coating? Paired with that looks like monaka wafers which is a crispy shell made out of mochi/glutenous rice.
– Behind the puffed rice looks like nasu / eggplant.
– Other than the strawberry, the fruit might be stewed apple and pineapple?
I would agree that the plating is somewhat unusual for kaiseki. Normally, everything would be in it’s own dish/bowl.
I can identify with 100% certainty that I would not eat that.
I worked at a Kaiseki restaurant in Kyoto and the first course was always “Zensai” which is a hyper seasonal arrangement of little bites like this arranged in a very similar manner. It’s fairly common for certain Kaiseki to open the meal with a platter that has 10-15 little bites on it. People need to do more research or just know what they’re talking about before passing judgment and saying it’s sloppy or that there’s too much stuff on the plate smh.
The ingredients would change at our restaurant every few days based on what was available in the garden so it’s hard to tell exactly what was on there and I’m not sure I can offer more insight than what others above have posted but on the whole, namafu wheat gluten is very common, a couple types of seafood like the prawn and snails here, and simple dashi blanched vegetables like the lotus root and bamboo shoot above.
I think we’ve got some milt hallowing on the little flower dish on the left!
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They really piled it on there didn’t they
With 100% certainty I can tell you that the red thing on the right is a strawberry
Sloppiest kaiseki plating I’ve ever seen.
Prawn, 12 o’,clock
I’ve never seen kaiseki thrown together in one plate/box. 😒
The white, longish vegetable with ridges should be bamboo.
I have to guess on some of these.
– The small bowl in the top left to the left of the bird looks like mozuku-su which is a type of seaweed common around Okinawa. Usually dark colored strands that have a slippery texture.
– To the right of that, the yellow thing, I’m assuming you know is tamogoyaki / egg omelet.
– On top of the egg is shrimp and lotus root and possibly satsumaimo / sweet potato.
– The two items in shells are sazae / turban shell / sea snail.
– The green thing on top of the sweet potato and to the right is warabi which is a mountain vegetable.
– The white thing just under and to the left of the warabi looks like yuba / “tofu skin” which is the thin protein that forms on top when making tofu.
– The pink and white item is nama-fu which is wheat gluten.
– To the right of that is bamboo shoot.
– In front of the bamboo shoot looks like it could be something in a gelatin mold. Usually it’s some type of protein.
– To the left of that in the container in the front might be anago / salt water eel or some type of fish.
– To the left of that is shirahana mame which is a type of white bean.
– Behind the white bean looks like pork?
– To the left of the pork might be something with a puffed rice coating? Paired with that looks like monaka wafers which is a crispy shell made out of mochi/glutenous rice.
– Behind the puffed rice looks like nasu / eggplant.
– Other than the strawberry, the fruit might be stewed apple and pineapple?
I would agree that the plating is somewhat unusual for kaiseki. Normally, everything would be in it’s own dish/bowl.
I can identify with 100% certainty that I would not eat that.
I worked at a Kaiseki restaurant in Kyoto and the first course was always “Zensai” which is a hyper seasonal arrangement of little bites like this arranged in a very similar manner. It’s fairly common for certain Kaiseki to open the meal with a platter that has 10-15 little bites on it. People need to do more research or just know what they’re talking about before passing judgment and saying it’s sloppy or that there’s too much stuff on the plate smh.
The ingredients would change at our restaurant every few days based on what was available in the garden so it’s hard to tell exactly what was on there and I’m not sure I can offer more insight than what others above have posted but on the whole, namafu wheat gluten is very common, a couple types of seafood like the prawn and snails here, and simple dashi blanched vegetables like the lotus root and bamboo shoot above.
I think we’ve got some milt hallowing on the little flower dish on the left!