Mako's birthday (2020)

Dinner Menu

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  Appetizer: Izakaya night

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  Dumpling: Murtabak

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  Salad: Green Buddha bowls

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  Soup: Asparagus soup

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  Main: Hayashi rice

Appetizer

Izakaya Night w/ small bites of:

• ginger pork
• potato salad
• gobo salad
• grilled leeks
• tsukemono

Dumpling

Murtabak

Salad

Green buddha bowls

Soup

Asparagus soup

Main

Hayashi rice

Drink Menu

Ma Cherie

• 1-inch piece of celery
• 2 1/2 ounces fino sherry
• 1/2 ounce lime juice
• 1/2 ounce pineapple gum syrup
• 1/4 ounce green Chatreuse
• 1/4 ounce velvet falernum
• 10 drops saline solution (see Editor's Note)

muddle celery; short shake; strain into highball over crushed ice; cucumber ribbon garnish

Jelena

• 1 oz Amaro Montenegro
• 4 oz Pineapple juice

Combine and refridgerate for a couple of hours then charge with a Nitro Whip. Alternatively, shake over ice. Either way, serve over ice in a highball glass.

Seapea Fizz

• 3⁄4 oz Absinthe
• 3⁄4 oz Simple syrup
• 3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
• 1 Egg white
• 1 oz Soda water

dry shake, shake, up, top with soda.

Clearly Aloe'n

• 1 oz Mezcal, Del Maguey Vida
• 1 oz Bianco Vermouth
• 1 oz Aloe Liqueur, Chareau

stir, strain, coupe

Shopping List

Liquor Store

• Amaro Montenegro [Jelena; Ma Cherie]
• Sherry (Fino, ideally)

Supermarket/Amazon

• 1 pineapple (for juicing) [Ma Cherie]
• 28oz cold-pressed pineapple juice (not from concentrate) [Jelena]
• Gum Arabica (or pineapple gum syrup) [Ma Cherie]