Guest guest Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 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 myspace.com/inthemoodforfood Philip Gelb vegetarian chef shakuhachi player, teacher phil http://philipgelb.com http://myspace.com/inthemoodforfood http://myspace.com/philipgelb http://www.yelp.com/biz/in-the-mood-for-food-oakland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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