Dear friends, dear guests of Miyabi!
Welcome back from your trips! It’s September. Most of it is even behind us. Our lands were hit by devastating floods, and we hear stories of people whose everyday life suddenly collapsed. How they would love to have the everyday they were used back. Why this happened to them, they ask? There is no answer to that. In Japan, people would probably advise with the proverb Unpu Tenpu. It is easy to remember – Unpu Tenpu. But tell someone whose house has been washed away that they should accept their fate. This is exactly what Unpu Tenpu means. Leave fate to fate.
Yes, it is autumn and although it has beautiful colors, it evokes sadness too. Do you also feel strangely melancholic when wading through autumn leaves? The image of a pile of leaves accompanied me as I thought about Miyabi’s autumn offer. Leaves blown to dead corners. Fukiyose. Fuki (from the verb fuku) means to blow, and yose (from the verb yoseru) means to put aside, to summarize. I wanted to create a plate where it would all be in one pile and everybody would say: yes, this is autumn. I hope I succeeded. I let the Japanese goodies, which are associated with autumn, flow in, landing on Vítek Kawasumi’s Nami plate. Exotic potatoes and mushrooms of several kinds, autumn vegetables and also duck. This time you will have chance to see and use the soup plate of the Nami dining set. Our soup is made of pumpkin and there is a bunny on the surface like on the moon. Not a real one of course, but a bunny cut from daikon. You probably know the Japanese story about the hare that gave itself to a poor pilgrim for food, and the pilgrim then lovingly took the hare with him to heaven. Tsukimi means looking at the moon, and that’s the bunny you might see there. The bunny symbolizes longevity, happiness and prosperity. This is we all wish! For ourselves and for others. If you don’t find your bunny on the moon, it will definitely be in our soup and maybe that will bring you luck too. The important thing is to believe that things will be all right.
Autumn also brings the joy of our new kaiseki replacing the summer one. Did you like it? I hope you did. The box remains the same, but the cups and plates and the contents are different. Autumn like. Let yourself be surprised. It is beautiful. It is delicious. It’s great. Aki Kaiseki. If you haven’t been able to come and eat the summer kaiseki, this time don’t leave your experience for later time. Time will run away like a hare in fields.
Now, we will have another interesting autumn program and offer in Miyabi. On October 10th, Master Saito and I will prepare your favorite Omakase guided evening. I’m really looking forward to it. Actually, I haven’t dress kimono for long three months. I will jump straight from a slightly transparent blue summer kimono to a full type kimono in autumn colors. Of course the dishes we offer you, will also be autumnal. Plenty of delicacies. In the nine-course menu, six will be sushi and sashimi, I will design three dishes and then there will be dessert. It has become a tradition that the last course is from wagyuu from Japan. We will keep it. You can pay the reservation deposit HERE.
To add to the autumn enjoyments, we invite you to Akimatsuri festival, organized by the Japanese community in the Czech Republic. Miyabi has been invited by local Japanese people to joint his event and cooperate since many years ago, and we appreciate it very much. We offer karei rice every year. We have to borrow large pots for this, and in the morning that day we borrow even the kitchen of restaurant U Kroka we are in friendship with. We will also offer in our stall other products you like like wagyuu or aburabozu futomaki. Let’s hope that the nice weather lasts and, above all, that it will not rain that day. Please note that this year the organizers had to change the location of Akimatsuri at the last minute. I hope you all get there safely. Sign up – October 6, 12:00 pm, Eagles Prague baseball stadium (Pálkařská 225, 140 00 Praha 4-Krč). More details HERE.
Also. Soon you can look forward to your favorite Sushi Tabehoudai. As we do every year, we will offer this overeating feast on November 1st. The evening always sells out quickly, so be sure to make your reservations. Price will be a little higher than last year, but still acceptable. I am looking forward to saying hello to you our dear guests.
And now, at the end I have for you news with a capital N – a grandious one! Have you ever seen a Kabuki costume as close as for instance 1 meter? I have not, but I’ll see. At Miyabi! You can too! Here is the explanation: I was contacted by a Japanese artist named Senju Einojo and he informed me that he and Japanese dancer Senju Honoka will have shows in Paris and then in Ostrava and since they will be two days in Prague in between, we could do a little something in Miyabi because he heard that Miyabi has beautiful space. Wow!!! Now, that something will be on Oct. 17 and it will be spectacular! Program is: In the afternoon from 14:30 to 16:30 in the Zen house you will be able to see how the costume is put on and how the actor does his make-up. Then from 18:30 you can – again in the Zen house – watch a forty-minute performance in Kabuki Lion costume from the Kabuki dance Renjishi. At 19:30, Senju Einojo stilll in the costume will come to the stone restaurant for ten to fifteen minutes to entertain our guests, so if you want to be there at that time and enjoy this, please make your reservation for your dinner before the restaurant is full. It will be a great opportunity. In the Zen house we will then offer one more performance from 20:30, this time Senju will not be in Kabuki costume, but in hakama and will play his shamisen and the dancer will perform her dance. Then we will smoothly flow into free entertainment both in the Zen house and outside in the Miyabi yard, so that even those who would not get tickets for individual shows or will not be at Miyabi for their dinner that evening, can meet our special guests informally. It will be a great after party. I remind you that a maximum of 14 guests can fit in the Zen house at one time, so if you want to attend one, two or all of the performances, please make your binding reservations. So!!! Isn’t this Something?
Unpu Tenpu. Leave fate to fate. So yeah, I’ll try.
All the best, Your Miyabi Darja
Allow me to add this Autum haiku that came to my mind:
An old man’s whisper?
No, just leaves dance in swirl
Flooding round the earth
