Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Tofutuna

I know this looks like what on earth but I'm only trying to recreate a fantastic salad I had at a Japanese restaurant the other day.
It was a tofu and fish salad so sublime that I all but ate the plate it came in.
It was to be expected, since the salad in question was their top delicacy and this in a restaurant the kind that probably used Phoenix eggs and dragons breath in their cooking is saying something.
Sure one has to wait for months to get a reservation and there are only a dozen or so tables to eat at and yes one needs to take off their shoes before entering and pawn ancient fortunes to pay but it was worth it because one bite and I was lost.
Think of it like a labyrinth far too simple and prodigious to be easily understood which was this salad which I've tried to recreate succeeding only mildly because for one it lacks a basic Japanese ingredient called bonito that needs be sprinkled atop to finish it and also the tofu which over in that restaurant was probably made under strict historic guidelines is nothing like the machine pressed ones sold in vegetables markets, but all that aside I'm a bit vague on the dressing they used and so the one I made came close but not nearly enough, though having said that, this salad turned out unexpectedly delicious and one that I plan to tinker and tweak.
This one is a keeper, and so I shall retain it in my repertoire.

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