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I may have inadvertently added to the selection of Korean dishes available in Tucson. \u00a0At Takamatsu’s, a Korean-Japanese restaurant, I went in hoping for a raw beef Korean dish that is served with sesame oil over daikon with an egg yolk in the top. \u00a0 The name wouldn’t come to me and I asked the waitress, a local Tucson white girl, who shook her head. \u00a0Nope, nothing like on that menu.<\/p>\n
So, I asked her about sashimi, since I couldn’t find it on the menu either. \u00a0Yes, she said. \u00a0Right there. \u00a0It was on a long paper menu to be filled out at the table. \u00a0I checked the 10 piece sashimi dinner and waited for her return.<\/p>\n
Instead, the owner came out. \u00a0A Korean, I think, (might have been Japanese), he said, “You’re talking about and he used a name that didn’t sound familiar to me. \u00a0Like steak tartar, in a mound with an egg yolk on top?” \u00a0That was it. “Well,” he said, “We don’t have much of a Korean community so we took off the menu 17 years ago.” \u00a0Oh, well. \u00a0I understood. \u00a0Thanks.<\/p>\n
He went away. \u00a0Then, he came back. \u00a0“My chef says she can make it for you. \u00a0She’s the same chef we’ve had for 18 years. \u00a0She’ll take frozen rib-eye and slice it up.” \u00a0I smiled, “That sounds great.”<\/p>\n
After my waitress brought me the usual Korean side dishes of kimchee, bean sprouts, spinace, pickled radish and thin sliced potatoes, she filled my tea pot.<\/p>\n
She left and came back with a beautiful mound of raw beef, an egg yolk in the top, all sprinkled with sesame oil and seeds. \u00a0But on thinly sliced apple.<\/p>\n
It was delicious. \u00a0Best I’ve ever had.<\/p>\n
The owner came back after I’d finished. “The chef says maybe we’ll put it back on the specials menu.” \u00a0I tipped the chef.<\/p>\n
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