Beef Noodle Soup, Taipei-Style

One of my wife’s favorite dishes that she misses here is Taiwanese beef noodle soup. There are a few places where we live here that offer it, but she’s told me that their versions have a few problems with it.  To begin, sometimes it was too sweet, or the soup braise really hadn’t penetrated the […]

On Chinese Superior Broth (高湯/上湯)

As I was growing up, I remember my mother feeding me her version of chicken soup with rice when I wasn’t feeling well. The soup was made with peeled seeded cucumber pieces cooked in chicken stock with shiitake mushhrooms. It was normally accompanied with cooked white rice on the side – to be added to […]

Sake Steamed Fish a la Nobu New Style Sashimi

What to make for dinner?  After a busy day at work, I was thinking about doing something conceptually easy. So Nobu West has a dish “Steamed Scorpion Fish”.  After studying the dish, I realized this was a sake steamed fish offering finished like Nobu’s New Style Sashimi. So I started by prepping the thinly sliced […]

Basho Omakase No Kokoro 30 Apr 2010

Nama Tofu – marinated shimeji, minced scallions, yuzu zest, soy dashi Poached Prawn ‘Salad’ – carmelized walnuts, jalapeno aioli, – field greens with ginger lemon dressing – and dehydrated tomato slice, carmelized walnuts Cold Smoked Hamachi Sashimi On Taro Chip – Grilled tomato & chives, Red miso cured cream cheese, Microgreens, Grapfruit Gastrique, Choya gelee Lobster Miso (With Mushroom […]

Morimoto Buri Bop

One of the dishes I like to do on weekends is Iron Chef Morimoto’s Buri Bop. I remember seeing this dish for the first time during Morimoto’s Battle Yellowtail on Iron Chef Japan.  I remember thinking to myself how appetizing this dish looked and how much I’d like to try the dish.   After having the […]

Nobu Soba/Buckwheat ‘Risotto’

As Joel Robuchon said, “…to me a successful dish is taking something simple and making it exceptional” I was introduced to this dish during a meal in the omakase room at Matsuhisa.  The ingredients could have simply been cooked in soy enhanced dashi, may be with the addition of mushrooms.  But in this case, Matsuhisa […]

Joel Robuchon On Cooking

“…to me a successful dish is taking something simple and making it exceptional” -Joel Robuchon, Top Chef Season 6 Episode 4 “Vivre Las Vegas” (see time index 07:38-7:42)