Man in Japan: Narisawa: Asia's best restaurant

A place in Tokyo called 'Narisawa' won Asia's best restaurant. I went to check it out and it lived up to expectations. Because of the food and the great company, the meal will live long in the memory.

A few of the restaurant's awards:

An appetiser that looked like a woodland floor. It included a piece of edible bark, some tempura as well as flower petals and a kind of mild cider in the small piece of hollowed out tree.

This looked better than it tasted. It was some sort of onion, with a super-thin burnt crust.

Tiny, crispy fish that had quite a bitter taste.

'Earth water'.

Japanese oysters, both large and small.

Fantastic fruity, citrus-infused bread that was baked at the table.

Crayfish salad.

Potentially deadly blowfish that was deep fat fried, with a green pepper mayonnaise and wrapped up in newspaper like traditional fish and chips. It had a much richer flavour and denser texture than I've tasted with other fish and I now understand why people undertake the meticulous task of preparing it.