Kyoto kaiseki dinner in the privacy of our room

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1. Eight courses were served that night, comprising:
   – Appetiser: Razor clam, fiddlehead fern, cod bud, horse tail, Japanese garlic, white asparagus, happy bean
   – Soup: Snapper, mugwort cake, rapeseeds
   – Sashimi: Yellow tail, minced radish
   – Grilled Dish: Sweet seabream, rice crackers, cherry flower shaped radish, dried sea cucumber, mountain peach, sweet beans cake in three colours, salmon with egg yolk
   – Fried Dish: Japanese butterbur, homemade ham, new onion sauce
   – Hot Pot: Kyoto beef, bamboo shoot, fresh spring wakame seaweed
   – Rice: Spring beans, sakura shrimp, fish eggs powder, miso soup
   – Dessert: Ice cream with mochi, sweet beans, strawberry

2. The pinnacle of food in Japan, in my humble opinion, is kaiseki. And at a ryokan, onsen, or even some hotels, the quality is superb. I live in Japan but haven’t been to Kyoto in decades. But I remember my ryokan and the kaiseki well. mmmmmm