Steamed Quotes

“Cubes of Mita's Kuroushi Beef."
"Oh, raw meat?
At first glance, it looks raw, but it's actually been cooked. And when you bite it all the juice from the meat comes seeping out!"
"Ohh... if it was raw, you wouldn't get such a succulent juice coming out of it. This has been cooked very skillfully."
"One has soy sauce with Japanese mustard, and the other has soy sauce with wasabi on it. Two different sauces to enjoy."
"We slowly roasted a prime tenderloin of the Mita Beef, and then cut away the meat on the outside...
... to take out the meat on the inside."
"What an extravagant thing to do."
"Hmm, this meat is top-notch, but Mamiya's skills have definitely improved. It's not easy to cook the meat so delicately..."
"This one is wrapped in a bamboo sheath... I wonder what's inside.
Oh, it's tilefish."
"And underneath is..."
"It's shredded snow peas with tilefish on top...
... wrapped in a bamboo sheath and steamed.
Please pour some kuzu sauce on it...
You can also place some wasabi on it if you want to."
"The fish has been steamed to perfection. If he had steamed it any more, the flesh would have become tough, but if he had steamed it any less, it would still be a bit raw. It is just soft enough, and the juice is still left in it too..."
"The snow peas have sucked up the flavor of the tilefish and have bloomed in flavor.”
― Tetsu Kariya, Vegetables