Kasago
Crispy scorpion fish two ways: The classic way to eat Kasago (scorpion fish) is to coat it with starch and deep fry it. It is done two ways here. The classic way and then a chip made with the same ingredients. The fish is steamed, mixed with starch dried and then deep fried to make the chip.

Chupa Tapas
This is a lollipop of Foie gras with a port wine jelly in the middle. The coating is thin candy shell.

Tai Chazuke
This is a re-make of a classic Japanese rice dish. Sea bream marinated with Kelp, with it is a capsule of sour plum and kelp tea (umekobucha).

Roast pepper Caviar
The technique employed is called spherification. The liquid from syringes filled with roast pepper juice and a seaweed essence called sodium alginate is dropped into a calcium salt water bath which forms small caviar-like gobules of roast pepper flavor. It is dressed with a thyme and garlic oil to finish.

Bacalao Espuma
Bacalao is Salt Cod fish. It is cooked with a little garlic and potatoes made in to a mousse that is the white part). Below it is a piquillo pepper and almond sauce. On top is tomato seeds, the best part of the tomato!

King crab and uni
Crab is steamed and topped with uni or sea urchin, the clear soup is made from carrot juice and Japanese dashi soup. Inside is a warm saffron tomato jelly.

Black truffle, Lily Bulb
Lily bulb is a Japanese Winter delicacy. It’s very creamy. It is the bulb or root of the lily
flower. It is made into a warm espuma (foam), on top of that is a truffle infused milk froth,
and then a chicken bouillon reduction, blanched lily bulb petals and sliced black truffles!

Lobster Potato Vanilla
Vanilla scented butter poached Maine lobster with a lobster jus filled purple potato gnocchi and chive oil.

Secreta de Iberico
Secreto means “secret” in Spanish. It is the best part of the Iberico pork. The meat is roasted and presented in a dish coverd with a glass to reveal a fog inside. The a la minute smoking technique is used here to present a smoky aroma that doesn’t penetrate into the meat. The smoke is burnt cherry wood aroma, and the cup is lifted to reveal the smoke trapped inside.While the meat only picks up a faint trace of the smoke flavor, the sauce below is infused with the smoke more pronouncably. The sauce is the collected juices from roasting onions
and red peppers in a low oven for a long time.

Xialongbao
A lamb chop is presented here with a yogurt dip and a poached baby peach. The lamb is filled with lamb sauce, so the idea is to eat it all in one bite. It is a very juicy meat dish.

Wagyu
A A4 grade Japanese Beef filet is used and cooked using the sous vide technique. It is cooked
under vacuum at 53.5 degrees C for at least 5 hours and then seared using a frying pan.
Baby cabbage leaves, baby carrots, dried shallot chips and a borscht puree line the plate to
make the dish taste like the Russian beets soup- borscht.

Miso Soup
This is miso soup. Spherification is again used to make this dish.  Seaweed powder, small tofu and green onion oil. When it is all eaten in one mouthful, it becomes miso soup in your mouth.

Puff
This is the first sweet course, it is called puff. This is a passionfruit puff. It is frozen with liquid nitrogen and then served. It is very cold. You must bite many times with your mouth closed to enjoy. The secret to success is to keep chewing.

Snow
A diorama of a winter scene in Japan. Semi-dried persimmon and mascarpone cheese mousse with mocha cookie crumble, chocolate tree and a snowflake on the strawberry. The snow is made with a powdered white chocolate ice cream.

Sacher torte
This is made in the image of a snow dome, inside is a apricot jam and a cocoa cake, with and
edible clear sugar dome covering it.

Mont Blanc
This is the French chestnut cream cake, served on a spoon to be eaten in one go.

Cinnamon toast
Cotton candy with cinnamon pressed down in to a flat toast-like shape and texture

Raspberry soda
The raspberry soda is a disc made with white chocolate, freeze-dried raspberries, citric acid, backing soda and powdered sugar. It starts to fizz on your tongue.

Truffles chocolate
This is a chocolate truffle with real black truffles inside.

Fruits
This is the fruit course. Orange lemon lime and strawberry are presented. You are asked to lick a selection of fruit to guarantee to authenticity of the fruit. Then you are instructed to rinse your mouth with water. Next come the magic. The fruit is called a miracle fruit. The miracle fruit tells your brain that when you eat something sour, it tastes sweet. The effect lasts for more than one hour!

4 & 5) the Chupa Tapas – a port jelly centre surrounded by foie gras – OMG delicious

6)Tai Chazuke

7) here’s how the caviar is made

8) chef has these very cool floating dishes … we tried to get them to float after the dinner … with no luck, you need to have the touch and I didn’t; 9) roasted red pepper caviar

10) kasago: the sccropin fish – two ways; 11) bacalao espuma

12) here it is again in profile; 13) king crab and uni

14 & 15)  black truffle, lily bulb

15 & 16) lobster potato vanilla

17) secreta de Iberico pork; 18) A4 grade Japanese wagyu (probably the best piece of beef I have ever eaten)

19) the INCREDIBLE xia long bao

20) miso soup

 
21) here we learn how to eat ‘Puff” … it is a lot of fun and silly and even though I have videos of us doing it … they shall remain offline)

22 & 23) Snow

24) this is how dessert is served to each of us; 25) a real truffle chocolate truffle (TO DIE FOR)

26) sacher torte ; 27) the infamous miracle fruit is at the top

28) we moved from the Bar after dinner to finish our champagne; 29) the men’s urinals at this restaurant have an incredible view of Tokyo

30) the lounge area at the Mandarin Oriental ; 31) full of food, Blee and G head to the elevators

32) heading back to the Park Hyatt on the Ginza Line; 33) Blee and I doing our best PPA on route