Its the Ebisu festival in Osaka 9-11/Jan. Ebisu is the Japanese God of Fortune and many are celebrating and praying for good business. Had dinner with a Japanese friend in Benkay Restaurant in the hotel.
Appitiser - chef prepared mochi with the face of Ebisu.
Hand made tofu
Sashimi
Sake
Clear soup with white fish
Cod roe
Yellow tail in soya sauce
To finish we have puffer fish (fugu) deep fried, restaurant only serve fugu from the natural wild
Because I know executive chef very well he offered us this dish which is very difficult to come by - wild fugu testicles, lightly seared.
Chawanmushi
Crab rice cooked in claypot