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L'Osier, Tokyo

 

Before this trip to Tokyo,I agreed with those who were sceptical about other than Japanese food in Japan. Well, after my dinner at 3 Michelin stars L'Osier, i don't share this opinion anymore.Imagine what happens when the excellence of French gastronomy collide with Japanese perfectionism. It is a big bang of flavors and pleasures of eating.I still think of the divine foie gras raviolis with white truffles or suckling pig with polenta. And i could have licked the plate of scallops with polenta and white truffles...

Back from sensational dinner in Tokyo and the restaurant is not Japanese. Will be blogging about it soon.

Master,soup first or noodles first?

If you love Japanese culture, you must have seen or heard of an eighties movie called "Tampopo", Japanese comedy about love, life and ramen. The movie starts with a younger truck driver Gun (Ken Watanabe) reading a book about ramen to an older truck driver Goro (Tsutomu Yamazaki). The younger truck driver imagines himself in the story and asks the noodles' master, who studied noodles for 40 years, if soup or noodles should be eaten first. The noodles "sensei" answers :

"First observe the whole bowl. Savor the aromas. Jewels of fat glittering on the surface. Shinachiku roots shining. Seaweed slowly sinking. Spring onions floating. Concentrate on the pork slices. They play a key role but stay modestly hidden. First caress the surface with the chopsticks tips. To express affection. Then poke the pork. Caress it with the chopsticks tips. Gently pick it up and and dip it in the soup on the right of the bowl. What is important here is to apologize to the pork by saying “See you soon” "

21 nov. 2009

Only in Tokyo- 3 melons for around 500 dollars,found in a fruit shop in Ginza... No,i didn't buy one. 

 

Nobu Tokyo

I find it hard to believe myself but i've been three times in Nobu  over a stay of two weeks in Tokyo.Why go to an international chain when Tokyo has so many exciting local places to offer? Well, the first time i went there was out of plain curiousity. I was interested to know how Nobu compares to other Nobus I've been (NY, Miami,LA,London,Milan,Hong Kong and Paris (before it closed)) and was not really intending to return.