Dragon Year

2012 is the year of the Dragon in Chinese Calendar.
Special thanks to you, Ian!(my friend who　visited my restaurant last year)

To start My blog in 2012..I chose this beggie carving.

Speaking of Chinese Calendar..
A mouse,cow, tiger....the twelve signs of the chinese character are animals each, but only the Dragon is an animal in the imagination.

Although the tough times, we can make full use of imagination then rise like a Dragon!

kotoshi mo yoroshiku onegai shimasu! ^^

Cucumber Art 2

Today,I introduce my veggie carving which I made for broadcasted TV program last month.

I made 9 Buddha for the TV program.
but I did not made them from a wood.. from a cucumber.. for sure!
The TV crew added splendid work to my sculpture.

Buddhist saint...

His name is called "asura"
I made every one of them from 1 cucumber except him.
I put arms with bamboo stick for this asura.

The Buddha....They are the helo from long time ago..

The TV crew used the dry-Ice.
They got the inspirarion from my picture of the
Darth vader which I made before.

They did great work on it..
looks so beautiful arn't they?

Which one is your favorite? :)

They introduced our course menu too!

This is also my favorite carving.
white(Japanese White raddish) and red(carrot) pair swan.
I've been making the pair swan from long time ago because
A swan is a blissful animal.
also Red and the white combination are good for a celebration!

At last, I made a japanese comedian "masa" with sweet potato.
In TV,He called it as "me"!

by the way...Please allow for me to put subtitles on a
pictures recently.
I do not want anyone to do business with my pictures.
I just make them for people's ｆun!
Hope you enjoy the vegetables!

Season's greetings

Let's celebrate Christmas with sushi!

We Produce various type of sushi cakes.
I call this cake "Millefeuille type".

As for the This sushi cake... a take-out is available:)

In this season,I present Santa Claus that made it with a carrot now!

Here is veggie Christmas decoration.
It is slightly early for greetings but May Christmas bring you joy and Happiness!

my knife

Today,I introduce my knife.

As I mentioned before, I used to work as a french chef
before I became sushi chef.
Therefore I have two type of knives.


It is a knife for Western food in a upper of photo , and the bottom is a knife of the Japanese food.

Those are 3 kind of whetstones.
rough sharpeners,standard and finish use.

looks like bussiness case but
Here is a "mukimono(veggie carving) tool"

This is inside.
There are many tools for making a vegetable carving.
Actually, you can buy High specification
Note PC for money to buy this tool.
Those are very useful for making Specific sculpture but
nomaly, I don't use.

I use those two. keen knife and knife of triangle.
Those are very useful!
you can try veggie carving if you have a keen knife like this.
Please try if you like:)

Gift from the sea

I treated various foods last week.

Crabs

filefish

kochi...flathead

Red grouper

I thank the nature and live day by day.

Kamen Rider

Kamen Rider...
Some of you may know There is a Kamen Rider from
USA called "KAMEN RIDER DRAGON KNIGHT".
He is very cool!!

but this Rider looks charming lol

I put on a food color of green :)

Character's chirashi sushi

I got a request of Delivery from the customer...
that is why I made the "Chirashi sushi" of the character.

I used the technic of character bento which is very popular in Japanese housewives.

I hope customers were enjoyed the dinner:)

Cucumber Art

A good point of the vegetables sculpture is...
You can express anything what you want to express with familiar food.

Chef of Japanese use cucumber "mukimono" for a osashimi
like below.

Koma（a top）for wasabi

folding fan

Bamboo

bucket

from here, not for sashimi.....
Those are , let's say...Cucumber Art:)

Turtle

the kappa (water imp)

the Buddha

different type of a statue of Buddha

I made a 9 Buddha for TV program which will broadcast in November.

Thank you

A Day of Last week, I bought this book.

I only read a half of this.....

I used to watch his presentation in Podcast(Keynote).
We were attracted by his speech.

This book's subtitle said.."What would Jobs do?"
I think Everybody can use this word ..in this way.
"What would you do to this situation if you are Jobs?"

Thank you Steve.
Thank you for all of your great words.
Please take a rest and..watch the people from Heaven.

Canadian food's and Wine Seminar

I went for a Canadian food's and Wine Seminar.

The chef who came from Vancouver showed cooking,
and we ate his dish and also taste wine from Canada.

The Chef's dishes was very beautiful and tasty.
He pleased us by smooth technique and nice talking.

Canada Wine were also very nice.
Usually I don't drink but drank the wine because of
delicious dish today.

Thanks chef!

By the way,
I took the picture with my iphone3G this time...
I wish I could change it to iphone5!!
but iphone4S seems still nice to me :)

Sushi with Maple Leaf

The Osaka became cold from last week.
It is autumn now!
I made an Autumn leaf with a carrot today.

At first I cut a carrot in a rectangle and write a line like below.

and then, dig it out Along a line.

I finish each leaf after slicing it.

I put it in sushi of the delivery to customer.

Please have a wonderful autumn, everyone!

Busy weekend!

This friday-Sunday was very busy for us!

Here were some dish from sushi course(3000yen)

Appetizer

Tenpura

Today's fish plate(codfish)

Also including sushi,chawanmushi, Dessert.

Vegetable Monster Rex

a long time ago, in the forest far , far away....

It was the very peaceful day.
Until that ferocious monster appears ・・






The beautiful Butterfly were playing..

A rabbit and the butterfly play hide-and-seek at a flower bed..
It was the quiet autumn afternoon.

Here is another rabbit also playing with butterfly..

Suddenly, That Dangerous monster appeared !
but the rabbit didn't recognize that ferocious one..

The rabbit finally noticed a monster,but was already too late...!
it's so big!!

The rabbit seems to be eaten by a terrible monster!　
oh Noooo!

but....don't worry.....











because.......














Actually, They are very close friends ♪

An animal and the monster of the forest are lived peacefully...forever.

Fin
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How was the world's first fairy tale with the vegetables carving? lol


This monster called "Tiga Rex（ティガレックス）".
It is a monster coming up to very popular game in Japan
"monster hunter 3 （モンスター・ハンター３）".



I made this work by the request of my friend.
It was the first time for me to make the video game character.

Here is how to make :)

I used 4-5 carrot this time.

I made the Face first..all the time.

After having made each part,then put them together.

I made an effort to carve a fearful monster.
However, I see it cutely also.... lol

Thank you for reading , everyone:)