sushi with gratin

Some times, I try to make a new dishes.
My latest favolite food is "sushi gratin "

sushi rice,cheese,fishes, white sause...
I think those ingredients are good combination.

nigiri of hamo

Sushi of Avocado

Avocado is good for your health!
"California roll" is famous, and it is in a menu also at our shop.

Please say if you like avocado...It isn't put on the menu,
but I'll provide it for a nigiri sushi!

sushi course

The revolving sushi bar is fun,and reasonable..
but If you'd like to have a fun meal with your
friends or Family, or have party for the memorial day...
My restaurant is one in the best choice!!
Because..It's real sushi.

The sushi course is also recommended!
amuse,tukuri,tenpura,sushi, today's French dish,
pickles,cyawanmushi,dessert.


lunch&dinner time....3000yen

various vegetable carving

I have sometimes make vegetable carving to the dish of the party(banquet).
It may make from a request, or sometimes I make it for a surprise.

This time, I upload the video of my vegetables carving.

1st The flower which was made with radish
2 The flower made from the carrot
3 The rabbit made from the Japanese radish
4 The swan of a pair

and 5 It made with the sweet potato, the character of a
very Popular animation.....
Please enjoy!

Sushi set

A sushi set...nigiri 8kan, akamiso-soup,small amuse
otukemono(japanese pickles) and dessert

lunch time 850yen
Dinner time 1100yen

I recommand this set, and if still hungly...ask me more!

Canada days...

Before I became Sushi chef, I worked as French cook for 8yeas.During that time,
I've lived in canada(toront) for a year and I worked for a French
restaurant.


The restaurants name are Marcel's Bistro and Le saint ropes.
I worked for a hotel of Markham Embassy suite too.




Living in canada was a great experience for my cooking also my Life.
That's way I make a French dishes(kind of lol) too still!

Today's sushi

Oh my god! I haven't write my english blog over a year...
But Now I am back!
Nice to meet you again and Please come back and see my blog sometimes.

I have made some sushi for delively today just like below.



Maguro,salmon,kanpachi,squid, katuo,shrimp,scallop
tamago(eggs),crabs,natto roll, unagi...so on.

delivery

This plate for delivery service.

I made first one(shrimp) slowly.
our egg sushi is big size, so I make nigiri different way.
I hope you enjoy my second video for youtube.
I hope you enjoy it!

why is it?

When we mix vinegar with rice for sushi, we use a wooden pail and rice scoop.

Why must it be a wooden pile!?

because wooden pail absorbs extra liquid flowing from rice,

finished in the "syari(sushi rice)" that is in a good conditions.

one more word today. speaking about "Gari".

Ginger of the slice which soaked in sweetened vinegar,it is called
"GARI".

It is called GARI Because when you eat, it make a sound "gari""gari."

or when you slice ginger, it make a sound.

30th anniversary of starwars!!

Speaking of movies.......
What is the movie which you like best?

My most favorite movie is the star wars
to become the 30th anniversary in May of this year.

UPDATED June 29th.

those are not for sale.just for having fun!!

for STARWARS　30ｔｈ　anniversary with my frends!
cut a bamboo leaf in form of "starwars". and put it on a slice of japanese radish
and shellfish.

R2-D2 (carrot)

Gunsip(sweet potato)



AT-ST(sweet potato)




palpatine(carrot & sweetpotato)



master yoda(japanese raddish with color)

Obiwan-Kenobi (carrot & bamboo skewer)

Battle of Yavin (carrot)

General Grievous (sweet potato )

ARC170 starfighter (carrot)

Kit Fisto(japanese white radish with green color)

Boba Fett　(sweet potato)

Stormtrooper(carrot, japanese white radish)

X-34 landspeeder (japanese white radish & carrot)

Darth Maul with sushi (carrot , sweet potato)

everytime my friend came, these produced it, but I gather for a
celebration feeling this time.

UPDATED: June 29th

darth vader (carrot , sweet potato)

R2-D2 candle version (japanese white radish)

Battle of hoth (japanese white radish ,carrot)

the saga continues........

Matsumae sushi

This is the japanese traditional sushi called "MATSUMAE".

the fish is Mackerel.

put the fillet of mackerel in to salt for 3hours,after that wash it.
and then soak into the vinegar for three to four hours.

I pull a skin and cut body of mackerel to open.

then I put rice and roll it up.

after that put "konbu" on top then finish.

you can eat deliciously for around 3 days.

Fresh Nigiri sushi is a representative of sushi recently

but before, sushi was save food in old days.

this sushi was created in the middle of

a process of evolution.

and taste good!

about my carving

In the case of a party and a banquet, I make

vegetable carving.

Swan

ingredients------carrot, Japanese radish

It is the couple swan which it will make in many cases.

I will display it in a moment of marriage memory and party so on.

The picture is a Japanese-style version. I made some other style
such as western style.

motor cycle

ingredients------carrot

A sculpture of the motorcycle.I made this when my

motorcycle friend came to the store.
A tire turns around properly, too!!

Eikichi.YAZAWA

ingredients-------carrot, sweet potato

Japanese famous musician.

he is a great singer, and I am a fan.

It is the most difficult to carve a face of a person.

do you know this cute dog?

dragon and howk

ingrediants------sweet potato and carrot.

i will up load more carvings, soon or later.

We appeared on TV show!

I make sushi cake when I have a order.
it is for birth day or party.


Recently,it was preasent surprised to us, but
our restaurant was interviewed
for a TV station!
The TV shows theme was... sushi X'mas cake!




I made a special sushi cake for it, and I
made a vegetable carving for decoration.
(reindeer and Santa Claus made with
carrot, Japanese white radish,and sweet potato)




I love vegetable carving.I'll write about it some other time.

my nigiri style

In the grasp sushi, there is a name depending on each method. do you know?
"kote gaeshi","honnte gaeshi","tategaeshi"so on...

my type is improvement type of "kote-gaeshi" I was taught from my father.
please take a Look if it's all right with you.

my sushi bar

An worker of a restaurant is three people of me and mother and the wife who sometimes help us.

We have 7counter seat,2 tatami room(for 18 people),and
we do Delivery too.


I started my carrier from working at french restaurant and
I work as french cook for 8years.
8years ago, I took after my father's restaurant.

it is a big defference between french and japanese sushi
so especialy first 3years was very tough(still now though:)times.

now I'll be able to offer sushi and French cuisine at my shop.
I think this is a time for me to make my own style food,so
I must do my best,more!


I have several reason that I started this brog.
I'ld like to show what a beautiful food sushi is!
and I'ld like to introduce our culture too.
I'ld like to keep writing for my friends.
I'll post how to make sushi and how to treat fishes later on.

Please keep company if you like!

my father's knifes

When I finish my work, I sharpen a kitchen knife with a whetstone every night.
This knives called [yanagiba]. this is made of steel, so it is easy to be rusted and cannot miss everyday care.
However, it is sharp very well!

The picture above is my kitchen knife. And my father's kitchen knife is below. as you can see, my father's knife is looks changed because of he used this more than 30 years. He also sharpend everyday.
My Father went to heaven eight years ago but This knife is an treasure reminding of father'work.

about me

hi! My name is oki, I'm living in osaka, running a smoll sushi restaurant with my mother and wife.
My job is making a sushi. sometimes I make a The creation food that combined Japanese food with Western food.

This is my challenge to write a blog with english. my english is very broken but I'ld like to introduce a traditional japanese food "sushi" to the world.
Please keep company if you like! oki

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