Eating each one of these dishes was a special moment for me this year. Thanks so much for letting me share them with you.
So here they are, in no particular order:
- Grilled Nagoya cochin chicken with yuzu kosho – Toriyoshi, Nagoya
- Pumpkin cooked in mead with white rice ice cream – Sixpenny, Sydney
- Babi guling – Pak Malen, Bali
- Sumi 2009 – Narisawa, Tokyo
- 25-year aged kombu stock – Takashi Okuda, Fukui
- Cheeseburger and root beer float – Gordie’s, Okinawa
- Marmite spicy frog porridge – Jalan Alor, Kuala Lumpur
- Daiginjo sake soufflé and salt soft serve – Ryugin, Tokyo
- Hairy crab and sea urchin nori roll with orange ankake – Kappo Okada, Sapporo
- Yang rou chuan – Roadside stall, Beijing
- Noto beef jibuni – Tsuruko, Ishikawa
- Kumara scones – Mavis Suckling, Dargaville, New Zealand
- Tea ceremony (Azaleas with their roots in a stone) – Kimura Soshin, Kyoto
- XO Sea – Quay, Sydney
- Eel spine kara-age – Kawatatsu, Kyoto
- 2013 Christmas lunch – At home, Sydney
