What We Ate At Ko

Erin and I dined at Momofuku Ko this afternoon for lunch. My thoughts on it will come soon, but for now, this is what we were served.

Three little bites to start: a cube of duck pate, a little fried potato tube with vodka creme fraice, and what I think they said was uni skin?

Second we were served a single washington state oyster with something sweet potato added. I didn’t pick up on the sweet potato part.

The next few courses we can’t quite remember the order of:

The strangest bowl of dashi broth with fresh tofu and some other fishy paste stuff in it. Along side it was a bit of wegyu beef rib meat and a bit of fish tartare and caviar.

A platter of four types of sashimi. some highlights: one of them had buttermilk and scallion flower. a really spicy/wasabi mustard oil. toasted buckwheat was on one. a purple orange blossom thing. crispy fish scales were sprinkled on one.

An egg custard in bacon broth served with a bagel bite filled with bacon cream cheese. We watched them cook this custard in a covered pot of water, it was fascinating.

A plate of sliced beef cheeks with some white fungus and some mushrooms over a spicy green sauce. These beef cheeks were sliced so thin and had an awesome flavor, I wanted them to be deli meats on a sandwich.

One course was their bento box served on multiple plates: a single lamb rib with kolrabi slaw dressed with coconut vinegar and lime. some greens dressed with sesame paste. a cylinder of rice dressed with some bacon essence and grilled. a dashi soup with clam.

Lobster tail served on a turnip cake, fried cauliflower and crunchy potato bits.

Handmade orchetta pasta served with a cheese sauce, brocoli puree, dried brocoli florets and crunchy bits of benton’s ham.

A duck leg cut into medallions. Parsnip ice cream dusted in burnt onion powder, served on mung bean sprouts? and four onion caps. One of them was cream filled? and another tasted like pink grapefruit.

lychees, riesling jelly and pine nut brittle with frozen foie gras shaved over it.

our cheese course was a cheese sauce with greens and whisky soaked raisins topped with a puff pastry.

passion fruit ice cream, fried forbidden rice, banana caramel sauce.

orange granita with ground black sesame and probably something else.

whew. what a meal.