Restaurants, cafés, bistros, and food halls, markets, gardens, kitchens and drink stalls…
This is a new category to The Pilgrim’s Daughter where I will share amazingly tantalizing dishes with you from my travels within and without New Zealand. Some of these meals have been savoured during past trips, others have been cooked up by friends or strangers. Nonetheless, my super-sleuth taste buds will remember the joy of each bite, and will hopefully help me to later create my own variations of these stellar dishes.
So what’s first on the list?
Where The Bride from Kill Bill and the old President Bush apparently enjoy their soba noodles…the following was sampled at Gonpachi, Nishi-Azabu, Tokyo.
Black sesame ice cream served over a crisp, caramelised tuile biscuit and a hot fondant centre chocolate cake….
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A day out with the girls in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo lead us to the intimate Rico Pez, where we enjoyed the following…
Amuse-bouche:
Chilled Beetroot Soup (and a bunch of other things that paled in comparison to this insanely beautiful and decadent starter…)
Entrée:
Salmon paté on toast, seared tuna, sweet, blackened salmon, and octopus with a creamy mustard sauce.
Main:
“Ogodai/Medai” – white fish in a sweet capsicum sauce with seasonal vegetables.
Dessert: (post our palate cleanser of a delectable peach-yoghurt mousse…yum!)
Black sesame pudding with burnt sugar syrup, caramelised sugar ice cream over loaf cake, pear tart and strawberry sorbet…
