25.1.13

The world's most advanced restaurant: Tippling Club

A couple of days ago I gave a distillation workshop at a renown restaurant in Singapore: Tippling Club.
http://www.junkstage.com/maki/?p=445

Few days later I visited them for a dinner.  They've just finished extracting fennel seed after two days permanent process.  I'm impressed that they took it as their tool and using it already.  

Mixing the fennel extract with oil.


It's a modern, cool place, at the same time very cosy and casual. The man in the center is Ryan, the top chef.


The course starts.  Soup that you suck from the tube, while you taste the garnish on top.


Chef's interpretation of Singapore.  Creamy curry with puff rice on top.


Oh no they've burned it... :-) No, it's intentionaly black, made with bamboo charcoal! Very tasty shishito pepper tempura.


Eggless Chawan-mushi.  No way!  It tastes like real chawan-mushi...   A bit of milk in enzyme makes it tastes like egg it seems.  I got confused.


An amuse with ham and "olive oil caviar".  Mediterranean flavour in mouth.


Which part is edible?


The egg found in the grass was not tasting like real egg but its texture was quite egg-ish.


A test tube cocktail.


Black and white dish.  Hamachi with black sesame, garnished with black-skin daikon.  It goes with coriander cocktail.  Very good hamachi!


Tako (octopus) cooked under pressure. The texture is like a chicken. Together with dry, aged white wine.


Dish with beets: cooked under pressure, grilled in oven for hours, etc.


Candied beet.  Crispy and sweet!


Wagyu beef, A class, from Kagoshima. Together with scampi, spring onion from Kagoshima, and organic cucumber. Very well prepared wagyu!


Dessert starts.  Meteorite chocolate.  Yummy!


"Cheese Cake Remedy"


Iceream that seems not like icecream...I mean, not frozen.  With freeze dry rhubarbar. Chef's interpretation of his grandma's dessert :-)  It goes with a cocktail flavourd with Dutch "dropjes" ... Very creative.  Make it in Holland, and people will be surprised.


The white one looks like a slice of bread but tastes totally different.  Freeze dry milk?


The course is finished.  Now we're starting the bar time.


A cocktail in Penhaligon's perfume bottle. Box is also perfumed.


Sweet raspberry fragrance.



Food for just not filling the stomach, but also for mind-blowing experiences:
Tippling Club:
www.tipplingclub.com




17.10.12

Today's Scent 2012.10.16.

The scent of micro organism.

16.10.12

one scent per day 2012.10.12.

Autn leaves. The breath of the forest.

5.10.12

SMELL BAR #4 at the Camera Japan opening









We amused a lot of people :-)

The next performance: Sat, 06-10-2012, 19:00-22:00, at Lantaren Venster Rotterdam






2.10.12

SMELL BAR #4 on 04/10 and 06/10 in Rotterdam, NL



SMELL BAR #4
by UEDA Maki

- A series of amuses for the five senses, with an accent on the sense of smell
- Inspired by Japanese kitchen and molecular gastronomy


Come to Maki’s little atelier and savour her mini-artworks to smell and taste. Extraordinary mini-cocktails and snacks, influenced by molecular gastronomy, with a Japanese touch. UEDA Maki is one of the few artists in the world using smell as a medium. Her interest lies in the scent in the real life, such as the smell of space, the smell of food and drink, the smell of a person, and the smell related to the memories. A CAMERA JAPAN favourite, she has presented her smell and taste related projects and installations worldwide.







Thu 04/10: 19:00-19:45 and 21:30-22:00
Sat 06/10: 19:00-22:00

5 euro p.p.
Approx. 5 min
Max. 20 people a day

Service: Leyla Cavusoglu (www.mfashion.eu andwww.leylafashion.nl)
Food and drink: Maki Ueda (www.ueda.nl)

Camera Japan Festival HP
http://camerajapan.nl/

SMELL BAR #4 HP
http://camerajapan.nl/wp/event/smell-bar-by-ueda-maki/

Venue: Lantaren Venster
http://www.lantarenvenster.nl/




  • [MENU]
    (1) Treat for the eyes
    Cherry blossoms jelly (agar-agar-base) with green tea syrup and gold flakes

    (2) The sense of a taste experiment
    A small experiment for the sense of taste (and smell). Close your eyes and pinch your nose. Can you distinguish a slice of orange from apple?

    (3) Flavor synthesizer
    Eat or smell? Savor "umino-sachi", the sea flavor, but with your nose. Oyster perfume with soy sauce.

    (4) Inner body concert
    Eating is actually quite noisy! Wear ear plugs and eye shades. Player: Japanese cracker with nori seaweed.

    (5) Sensation
    Test tube cocktail - chardonnay and sansho pepper, with some surprise.

    * Preferably no perfume please
    * Suitable for vegetarian and vegan (if only inhaling)


    [Artist talk]
    Date and Time: Sat. 06/10 15:00-
    Location: Auditorium Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
    http://camerajapan.nl/wp/event/artist-talk-at-museum-boijmans-van-beuningen-feat-ueda-maki-ushida-yuya/
    With demonstrations of my past works.


19.9.12

I am mentioned in the book 'Season to Taste'

Season to Taste
By: Molly Birnbaum

12.9.12

Next show! SMELL BAR at CAMERA JAPAN FESTIVAL (Rotterdam NL)

SMELL BAR by UEDA Maki

Come to Maki’s little atelier and savour her mini-artworks to smell and taste. Extraordinary mini-cocktails and snacks, influenced by molecular gastronomy, with a Japanese touch. UEDA Maki is one of the few artists in the world using smell as a medium. Her interest lies in the scent in the real life, such as the smell of space, the smell of food and drink, the smell of a person, and the smell related to the memories. A CAMERA JAPAN favourite, she has presented her smell and taste related projects and installations worldwide.

ARTIST TALK at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen feat. UEDA Maki & USHIDA Yuya
An extendable sofa made out of 7770 wooden chopsticks and a perfume called the ‘Scents of Holland’. These are only two of the countless creations by industrial designer USHIDA Yuya and olfactory artist UEDA Maki who will discuss their work in person. Joining the two of them, will be Noor MERTENS, the curator of Museum Boijman’s recent ON Kawara exhibit, to talk about the oeuvre of this renowned Japanese conceptual artist.
Cited from the website of Camera Japan Festival: http://camerajapan.nl/