I like how you swapped out the chopsticks with your own personal set. 
Let me know if the mutual trading works, been eyeing their source of binchotan 
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This?
I was just playing around with that screenshot. That page says that they’re only able to sell to businesses and not to the general public.
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Precisely why it’s so hard to buy some Akazu vinegar in LA! Ahhhh 
This is the rice. It’s pretty awesome. 5kg is around $68 from mutual trading.
It even tastes great reheated in the microwave
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Haha i know, need tax id etc might have to hit up restaurant friends
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okay thanks. so it is what @Sgee posted. fun fact: mori onodera hates that rice for his sushi.
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What’s the reason?
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There have been plenty of write-up of Hayato’s orizume so I’m not gonna elaborate much further. However, I do think the orizume gets you close to what you’ll experience at the restaurant overall. I know the orizume isn’t cheap but it’s worth every penny if you’re into simple food that’s executed with laser precision and complementing flavor accents that markedly accentuate the inherent quality of each ingredient.
It’s a lot of food and it took the two of us about 2 hours to finish everything.
We normally don’t drink but we grabbed this bottle at the restaurant.
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I’m going to pick up a bento box today and definitely not posting any pictures after seeing this. Amazing photos.
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How have you not been hired as a food photographer (such a thing?)
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Great shots
What a meal(s) - we had 2 1/2 meals from the box.
Really hard to isolate favorites, but I will list the few that come off the top of my head
—Duck “forcemeat” wrapped in shiso
–“Candied” uni
— Anago (steamed to a fluffy bite of perfection)
— that nori sauce on the abalone
— grilled Maui onion
Reading the accompanying literature was fascinating but a little hard to cross-reference from the printed page to the items in the boxes. Could have used a legend of some sort.
Definitely the highlight of the holiday season and the year of dining dangerously
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That would be an insult to the real pros.
My pictures are only okay. It’s really difficult to take close up shots of food on a pair of chopstick at night with such weak lighting in my house. I have to hold my camera and take pictures with my left hand while trying to steady my right hand that’s holding on to the chopsticks. That’s why many of my shots aren’t really in focus. It would help if I install some brighter lights…
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Agreed. I still need to spend time reading the detailed explanation.
I believe the nori sauce accompanied the grilled scallop. But both were part of my highlights alongside the kuromame which I thought was sensational! How did you like the kuromame?
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Oh - right. It was indeed the scallop sauce. TY.
The abalone was “dressed” in a sauce/jelly of its cooking sauce which was delightful as well.
kuromame?
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So great. Don’t think I have ever had these before.
The Turnip “Fukume-Ni” was wonderfully tasty and juicy.
I could go on… Iwashi was beyond.
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Kimo: Its own liver.
Kimo Sabe = Lone Ranger
They are great.
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I love it.
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