
Amuse
Title: Pine trees
Pine corn
shrimp filling / corn flakes
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Tori Matsukaze Yaki
Traditional chicken pate
in Yama's creation
chicken lever patste / pine nuts
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In old days people in Japan stuk pine needles into chicken and checked if it was ready to eat.
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While the top is decorated, the reverse side looks lonely; thus it was named, as a play on words, after the famous poetry: "Wind in the pines (matsukaze) on the beach suggests loneliness."