The Hyatt Regency Tokyo in Shinjuku is offering special "Kunpu Kensai" early summer courses at its Jade Garden Chinese restaurant through June 30.
Kunpu is a Japanese term for an early summer wind that carries the scent of fresh greenery, so the special courses highlight dishes with refreshing aromas and flavors.
Executive chef Katsuyuki Naganuma, working with the refreshing aromas of Chinese teas, has created dishes such as deep-fried squid with tea salt, jasmine tea-flavored rice (lunch), sauteed chicken and pine nuts with jasmine tea bread, salt crust-steamed pork loin with fried oolong tea leaves (dinner). Other dishes include spicy sauteed prawn with lemon sauce (lunch), deep-fried crab meat with spicy black vinegar sauce and spicy coconut-flavored deep-fried lobster (dinner).