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French Gastronomy: Mackerel Appetizer at Pissenlit in Shizuoka City!

December 16, 2012 dragonlife Leave a comment

Service: Excellent and very friendly.
Facilities: Great cleanliness overall. Superb washroom (mouthwash and toothpicks provided!)!
Prices: Reasonable to slightly expensive, very good value.
Strong points: Interesting wine list. Great use of local products, especially organic vegetables and Shizuoka-bred meat.

Chef Toru Arima/有馬亨さん at Pissenlit French Restaurant in Aoi Ku, Shizuoka City, is one of the most active chefs in our Prefecture when it comes to promote local products be they vegetables, fruit, meat or fish!

The other day I went on my regular pilgrimage there for lunch and had a long good look at the menu while other customers wondered why that strange foreigner stood so long in front of it….

Lunch on week day means no alcohol…. Non-alcohol home-made ginger ale it was then!

Real torture to sit besides those nectars…!

I did have quite a copious lunch and I thought it would be better to introduce each dish in a separate article.
So, what did I Have a s a first appetizer?

Saba/鯖/Mackerel from Kogawa Harbor in Yaizu City, a city classified as a major fishing harbor in Japan (You will find Yaizu City between Shizuoka City and Fujieda City)!

The mackerel had been lightly marinated as a kind of a half raw preparation and simply laid above a few cubes of apples for a great marriage between saltiness and sweetness!

The decoration is very much Japanese and also Shizuoka as the shiso/perilla flowers and menegi/leek sprouts are organically grown in Shizuoka Prefecture!
The flowers are edible and these vegetables make for a great finishing touch not only in presentation but also so much in a perfectly balanced superlative taste!

Extravagant simplicity!

Second appetizer coming next!

PISSENLIT
420-0839 Shizuoka City, Aoi Ku, Takajo, 2-3-4
Tel.: 054-270-8768
Fax: 054-627-3868
Business hours: 11:30~14:30; 17:00~22:00
Closed on Tuesdays and Sunday evening
HOMEPAGE (Japanese)
Credit Cards OK
Entirely non-smoking!

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Kraemer’s Culinary blog by Frank Kraemer in New York,Tokyo Food File by Robbie Swinnerton, Green Tea Club by Satoshi Nihonyanagi in Shizuoka!, Mind Some by Tina in Taiwan, Le Manger by Camille Oger (French), The Indian Tourist, Masala Herb by Helene Dsouza in Goa, India, Mummy I Can Cook! by Shu Han in London, Pierre.Cuisine, Francescannotwrite, My White Kitchen, Foodhoe, Chucks Eats, Things that Fizz & Stuff, Five Euro Food by Charles,Red Shallot Kitchen by Priscilla,With a Glass, Nami | Just One Cookbook, Peach Farm Studio, Clumsyfingers by Xethia, PepperBento, Hapabento, Kitchen Cow, Lunch In A Box, Susan at Arkonlite, Vegan Lunch Box; Tokyo Tom Baker, Daily Food Porn/Osaka, Only Nature Food Porn, Happy Little Bento, J-Mama’s Kitchen, Cook, Eat, Play, Repeat, Bento Lunch Blog (German), Adventures In Bento, Anna The Red’s Bento Factory, Ohayo Bento,

Must-see tasting websites:

-Sake: Tokyo Through The Drinking Glass, Tokyo Foodcast, Urban Sake, Sake World
-Wine: Palate To Pen, Warren Bobrow, Cellar Tours, Ancient Fire Wines Blog
-Beer: Good Beer & Country Boys, Another Pint, Please!, Beering In Good Mind: All about Craft Beer in kanzai by Nevitt Reagan!
-Japanese Pottery to enjoy your favourite drinks: Yellin Yakimono Gallery

Non gastronomy must-see sites by Shizuoka Residents

HIGHOCTANE/HAIOKU by Nick Itoh in Shizuoka City

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Japanese-style Curry in Shizuoka City: Two more at Kohaku!

December 12, 2012 dragonlife Leave a comment

Service: Very friendly and welcoming. Great explanations.
Facilities & Equipment: Very clean and great washroom
Prices: Appropriate
Strong points: Traditional and modern izakaya gastronomy. Very inventive cuisine with introduction of some Western concepts. Great seafood. Great sake list. Wine and other alcohols available. Intensive use of local products combined with ingredients from other prefectures! Curry Lunch Sets!

The Missus had badgering me about Kohaku for some time after reading some of my reports arguing it was just not fair that I kept such places secret (which I don’t, but try to argue with a lady…)!
Well, last Monday I took her to Kohaku in Aoi Ku, Shizuoka City, to sample the delicious, generous and extremely-reasonably priced (by Japanese standards) lunches!

Takashi Kawauguchi/川口貴士さん works on his own at lunch, meaning slow food in all the better meanings!

Very reasonably priced when you consider the generous portions.
I did have to help the Missus finish her lunch!
Now, what did we have?

The Missus had the Vegetable curry lunch set with tonkatsu as extra topping!

Succulent rendition of a Japanese classic!

As for me I had the pork kakuni/square-shaped stewed pork Curry lunch set with an extra kakuni topping and a side plate of deep-fried vegetables!

Kakuni, another Japanese classic!

Plenty of chopped vegetables to combine with the rice!

Deep-fried vegetables including kabocha, sato imo/taro root, shiitake, manganji pepper and sweet potato!

Last, some crunchy and yummy home-made o-shinko/pickles!

As we have planned a dinner there together soon, expect another report!

KOHAKU/旬彩こはく

420-0085 Shizuoka Shi, Aoi Ku, Shichiken-Cho, 18-1, PIVOT Shizuoka, 1F
Tel.: 054-221-0589
Opening hours: 11:30~14:30, 17:00~23:00
Closed on 2nd or 3rd sunday of the month

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Japanese Home-made Lunch of the Day

April 1, 2009 dragonlife 14 Comments

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With all the bentoes the Missus is (I was going to say “kindly” but don’t forget she eats the same lunch after all! LOL) preparing for me every Monday and Tuesday I have been asked what would be typical lunch at home.
Frankly speaking, it varies all the time, depending on the Missus’ mood and my own (rare) requests.
But today was a bit special. This morning, April Fool’s Day, I had to go through a stomach scan on my doctor’s orders (which revealed nothing serious, fortunately, apart of a big dent in this month budget!), which meant I hadn’t been allowed to eat for 18 hours (or drink for 58 hours!). As I was about to depart for the hospital, the Missus sent me off saying: “Don’t worry, I’ll prepare a nice healthy Japanese lunch as you like them!”
That could explain that for all the anaesthesics I had to ingurgitate, I stayed conscious during the whole operation!

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Because I did not have to sleep off all the medicine I managed to come home earlier than scheduled and take pictures of the meal as it came onto the table:
The salad was made with three types of potatoes: yellow sweet potato, violet sweet potato and regular potato to which was added cucumber cubes of the same size, “hijiki” sweet seaweed, lettuce with gomadare/sesame dressing.

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Naturally I had my tamagoyaki/Japanese omelette. The above picture shows it as it came out of the pan.

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It was then cut to bite size (half for each of us!) and served with “Kawaire Daikon” sprouts and a dash of ponzu.

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As for the meat, I had the Missus’ special: “motsu nikomi”/Japanese-style pork tripes stew with veg and tofu. (I had a second serving).

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As for the rice, I had rice steamed with shreds of sweet umeboshi/Japanese pickled plums. (I had a second serving of that, too!)

We had some small cakes for dessert.
I was so full that I had to sleep it off!

Tonight I ‘ll be able to open a bottle of sake at last! LOL

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Foodbuzz Proposal: Submit a Budget Lunch!

February 8, 2009 dragonlife 10 Comments

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Upon reading recent great postings by budget-limited ladies like Sugarbar and GirlJapan introducing appetizing recipes and including stunning pics, I felt that in these times of poor economy and reduced budgets it could be a good idea to share experience in preparing meals without emptying your purse. After all, cakes and superlative dinners at renown restaurants are great, but we still have to eat balanced food at the best value everyday!

This is where I would like to propose the Foodbuzz gurus to open another section on their “Submit” window, namely “Submit a Budget Lunch”!

As an example to illustrate the above request, here is what The Missus came up with for lunch yesterday (full pic above):

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The salad was made with chopped greens, boiled green and mauve (they turn violet upon boiling, but recover their original colour when sprinkled with dressing) all bought at the local supermarket and grown locally.

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The rice bowl. I had two helpings.

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The Missus steamed rice with home-stewed azuki beans and violet sweet potatoes. Upon steaming it, she took the konbu/seaweed piece out, chopped it fine and mixed it back with the rice. She served it in a bowl sprinkled with white sesame seeds.
Until now, this could have become a lunch for vegans or vegetarians!

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The main dish. I had two helpings, too!

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The whole lot was stewed in the “oden” fashion providing for great hot soup! It contained daikon, konnyaku (devil’s tongue tuber), ito (vermicelli) konnyaku, bacon-cabbage rolls, cabbage-sausage rolls (the rolls are home-made, not frozen) and “buta bara niku/large chunks of pork”.

Cheap, fulfilling and healthy!

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