Comments on: Harutaka (Tokyo) – The Waiting Room

By: ChuckEats » Ubuntu (Napa) – The Boundaries

ChuckEats » Ubuntu (Napa) – The Boundaries — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:41:50 +0000

[...] was a late October (2009) meal, immediately after the currently-being-blogged Tokyo trip.3 The food is obviously more bombastic when compared to the monkish stylings of Japanese [...]

By: chuckeats

chuckeats — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:26:42 +0000

Adam, the clam was fantastic too (and i’m generally ambivalent about the things) – as was the abalone (which isn’t pictured.) Shrimp was kuruma although cooked a touch too long. W/r/t buri – this meal was 5 months ago – but that is mostly, if not all, fat marbleization – it was rather tremendous in that respect.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:10:35 +0000

I’m adding this to my Japan list. Hoping to get to Tokyo next fall.

That arc shell clam looks fantastic. Was that botai-ebi or kuruma ebi? Was the buri scored with a knife at all in the first dish, or is that just fat marbleization?

Interesting use of the black lacquer tray… make the sushi really pop out.

Thanks for sharing!