gourmet vegan cuisine and Shoko Hikage performing, June 14, oakland

[Guest guest]

Saturday, June 14

8 pm

location: Private residence in Oakland

$70/person

limited seating for 17

only a few seats left!

Performer: Shoko Hikage - koto

for more information or for reservation s

phil at philipgelb. dot com

510 393 6096

 

Ok, this is certainly the most ambitious menu of the almost 2 years

of this series of dinner/concerts. Tea lovers will rejoice at this

one; Donna and Nez of http://chadoen.com have supplied me with some

truly amazing high quality green teas from Japan and oolongs and

jasmine teas from China. All dishes will have tea as an ingredient

and Nez and Donna will be serving many different teas through the

evening.

 

tea 1

cold infused karigane

 

soup

ochazuke (using genmaicha green tea; a Japanese variety combining 2

kinds of tea and roasted rice))

(brown rice, umeboshi plum, kaiware (daikon sprouts), wakame

(seaweed), toasted sesame seeds with a stock made from kombu, shitake

and genmaicha

 

tea 2

cold infused Kyoto bancha

 

salad

cucumber wrapped in daikon slices with fried oolong tea leaves and

apricot sauce

 

tea 3

Sakura/Aojiso/Gold Leaf tea (yeah, there really are gold flecks in

this tea!)

 

entree

green tea noodles (matcha)

seitan with spiced plum sauce

daikon pickled with Shincha and cherry blossoms

gyokuro tea leaves with shoyu

 

tea 4

an Oolong from Taiwan called Oriental Beauty

 

dessert

matcha 3 ways

matcha cake w/ maple matcha ice cream and matcha covered raspberries

 

tea 5

blooming tea served in glass

 

Performing this night will be the incredible koto player, Shoko

Hikage. Shoko is originally from Akita Japan where she grew up

playing koto. After College she became a house student of the great

avant garde koto players, Kazue and Tadao Sawai. 10 years ago, she

moved to San Francisco. Shoko and i co-founded a group, " Natto "

several years ago which has released 2 highly acclaimed CDs and

toured in the states and Japan

 

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Philip Gelb

vegetarian chef

shakuhachi player, teacher

phil

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