Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road: A Tea Tasting Dinner at Stone Leaf Teahouse
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Julia Clancy
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January 27, 2017 at 8:57AM
Other meal highlights were a kaiseki-style course with yuzu-kosho-laced Kumamoto oysters from Wood Mountain Fish and slabs of yamaimo, a sticky Japanese mountain yam; ozoni, a New Year’s soup with dashi, scallions, tatsoi, handmade mochi and black udon noodles made with grano arso, a finely ground, burnt-wheat flour; handmade silken tofu as delicate as fresh curds, garnished with a ball of strained whey and a thumbnail of wasabi paste; Agricola Farm pork belly marinated in ginseng cola; and candied burdock root swaddled in a bundle of fresh mochi and sweet miso-adzuki bean paste. Inspired, tired and not-too-stuffed by 10 p.m., my date and I wandered home to our last station of the night — bed — for a deep and satisfying sleep.