Page 4 - Dining Out - June 26, 2022

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Ichifuji manager Ayako Furuta holds a bottle of Suijin “God of Water” Sake in front of the restaurant’s 11-course menu.
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KYLE GALDEIRA ANTHONY CONSILLIO
Diners are in for a traditional Japanese culinary experience as guests at Ichifuji are treated to stellar cuisine and hospitality provided by an experienced, friendly team.
“Customers will have new experience of enjoying shabu shabu,” manager Ayako Furuta says when describing the must-try experience. “They will also feel like they are in Japan.”
Diners can look forward to the restaurant’s authentic, healthy Japanese hot pot “otoshi nabe,” which is a specialty nabe dish made from the rich flavor of oxtail, a local favorite. The simmered hot pot soup base is sim- mered for 24 hours so all the flavors are in- corporated as guests dip various ingredients into the nabe, shabu style, and enjoy their flavorful combinations with family, friends or co-workers.
While the
restaurant offers
a la carte ordering,
Ichifuji also offers sev-
eral course menus including the Premium 13-Course Menu ($125) and the 11-Course Menu ($85). The beef tongue, which offers essential vitamins, can be found on the course menus or can be ordered a la carte for $14. This is one of the restaurant’s sig- nature meats that is served with eight slices along with green onion.
“A lot of customers tell me that their fa- vorite is beef tongue shabu shabu,” Furuta says. “We recommend that diners prepare the beef tongue by dipping it in the hot pot for 10 seconds and enjoying it with the green onion and oxtail broth.”
Also included in the course menus are U.S. Wagyu Beef Rolls ($12 a la carte) as each
serving includes two rolls wrapped with Chi- nese cabbage; Kurobuta Pork Rolls ($8 a la carte) that includes two rolls wrapped in cab- bage per serving; and a Kurobuta-wrapped Japanese omelet; Chawan-Mushi ($9.50 a la
carte), which is a cup-steamed egg custard topped off with ikura and filled with mushi wakame seaweed, shiitake mushrooms, fish cake and edamame.
The course menus also include special-
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Beef Tongue
Part of the Premium 13-Course Menu ($125)
and the 11-Course Menu ($85), or a la carte ($14)