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😍 5/5 - The Entertaining Japanese Kaiseki dinner experience
By 👻 @kayakflyfisherman, 02/06/2023 3:00 am
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We’ve lived and traveled through Japan and only get to experience this rare Japanese style (Kaiseki) of set meal. The fact we found a Kaiseki restaurant right here in California is our amazing luck. Yoichi’s has delivered what we have experienced in Kyoto, Tokyo, and Hakuba Japan and almost never in the States. We’ve overheard other customers in the restaurant wanting to only order platters of sushi rolls, sashimi, and sushi not realizing the chef has carefully laid out a set meal is not about volume but a play on taste and visual plating to keep you engaged through the evening experience. It’s all about preparing courses that work and compliment each other, as well has pairing the saki to go with all the courses,. The menu changes almost every quarter based on season ingredients. The ceramic plating even matched with the courses, and turned out they were made by local potter. We wanted to take the dishes home with us. Here’s what stood out in out courses. 1. Appetizers - wagu beef melted in our mouths. Seared and rare in the center. This went well with the pickled and sweet daikon salad. 2. Chawanmushi (egg custard) - shrimp, mushroom, egg, with dashi infused, topped with salmon eggs marinated in mirin. Savory dish with sweet salmon eggs was a twist I’ve not had before. Very pleasant surprise. 3. Crab cake in a smokey dashi broth I thought was going to be my favorite until the next course arrived. We make dashi and we knew immediately they put extra bonito flakes into making the broth as smokey as possible. It was like a BBQ broth with crab. Just wonderful. 4. Sea bass on miso/kombo was the winner. Flakey meat plated on miso and blended kombo seaweed. I could eat this all day. 5. Dessert was citrus gel on top of a red bean paste and paired with yuzu cocktail. You have to try this out if you ever happened to be in Santa Barbara.
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