This 10-part meal is expensive, but it's beautifully prepared and you probably won't want any other food than a late light supper after breakfasting on miso soup with tofu, pickled vegetables, nori seaweed, salted fish, Japanese omelette, steamed rice, spinach with sesame seeds, fried tofu, salmon sashimi, daikon turnips with soy sauce and green tea.
The Takahashi family plot produced heavy crops of daikon radishes and potatoes.
Then the dishes started flowing: green beans with a sesame sauce, tuna sashimi on grated daikon and aji (horse mackerel) sashimi with grated ginger, the skin an iridescent silver.
Radishes vary in size from a few grams in the most-popular early American and European varieties up to 1 kg (2.2 pounds) in the Japanese daikon radish.
400g raw fillet or sirloin, trimmed of fat and sinew A 12cm-piece of mooli (white radish or daikon), peeled 2-3tbsp pomolassese molasses With a sharp knife, cut the beef into thin slices (place it in the freezer half an hour before to ease slicing); arrange on serving plates.
Use white radish (also known as daikon or mooli) as they have an even shape and size, or failing that, you could try small turnips.
Makes about 2 large jars 500g Lebanese cucumbers 220g daikon 2cm ginger, cut into wafer-thin slices with a peeler or mandolin 2 tbsp Maldon sea salt ½ sheet kombu 100ml Chinese rice-wine vinegar 3 tbsp granulated sugar Slice the Lebanese cucumbers and daikon into chunks.
Spanish-mackerel crudo with blood orange, mustard seed, and broccoli rabe leads to braised boar belly with apple, unagi, and daikon.
Cubes of shredded, compressed daikon radish, fried and tossed with shrimp, Chinese sausage, and a healthy dose of shrimp paste, evoke pork-belly fat, in a good way.
The Royals promptly won seven straight games, and Lee became a local celebrity: he met the mayor, threw out a fluttering first pitch — "I am not an athlete" — and was honored by a local chef with the Sung Woo Dog, a ballpark frank topped with kimchi, pickled daikon, and a fried egg.
Two newcomers picked at some pickled daikon (three dollars a saucer) while attempting to order a Vodka Tonic (Chinese-celery vodka, lime juice) and a Salty Plum Old-Fashioned (salty-plum bourbon, bitters).
