tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551919020263278449.post1841056712806930227..comments2016-10-02T21:46:36.959+09:00Comments on One Delicious Year: Kichisen Kaiseki DinnerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551919020263278449.post-8364352932558532752012-03-15T00:27:53.637+09:002012-03-15T00:27:53.637+09:00Thanks, Anonymous!
Hey -- a correction I should h...Thanks, Anonymous!<br /><br />Hey -- a correction I should have made years ago. It's not <i>karashi-daikon</i> but <i>karami-daikon</i>.<br /><br />Rereading this whole post, I find that I can still taste pretty clearly most of the dishes. I know a little more, though. The fugu dish was made with whatever the fish equivalent of testes would be, thus the creamy roe-like quality. I still don't know what those brown-black berry things were, and have had no luck figuring it out.<br /><br />I am also now of the opinion that chefs should start trying to invent their own kaiseki cuisines outside Japan. It shouldn't taste Japanese, but rather like the ultimate "home cooking" taken to its final extremes. Unfortunately, in the West (at least, in America) we often seem to have to balance among the three pillars of (1) rich, fatty, cheese-laden stodge as home cookin', (2) exotic Asian or Central American ingredients to give a kind of novelty that should be dead for anyone who eats out much and pays attention, and (3) pretention masquerading as creativity. Kaiseki is about perfect home cooking without any of these gestures, and should be a lesson to other chefs.<br /><br />If only!Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093242076173148071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551919020263278449.post-61916811795934842372012-03-14T22:41:54.082+09:002012-03-14T22:41:54.082+09:00Came across your site while researching for an upc...Came across your site while researching for an upcoming trip to Kyoto with the parents - and I think I've just read the best first-person description of kaiseki (or kyo-ryori, or whatever) that I've ever read (in English, anyway - one day I'll come to grips with Japanese). The food looks lovely and your words deserve the same compliment you lavished on the meal - completely unpretentious (and brilliant!).<br /><br />Ben T (Singapore)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551919020263278449.post-82101979725618063342009-01-29T00:59:00.000+09:002009-01-29T00:59:00.000+09:00If you can say kyo-ryori/kyo-kaiseki is completely...If you can say kyo-ryori/kyo-kaiseki is completely unpretentious, you experienced the real thing.<BR/><BR/>That is a rarity. Most Kyotoites have never realized that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com