French technique meets Japanese elegance around a traditional garden at the upscale Tetsuya's, where there is just one coveted degustation menu.

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"The people in the Tokyo area were momentarily thrown off, " said Tetsuya Kudo, deputy manager in the proprietary-trading department of midsize brokerage Yamawa Securities Co.

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Chef Tetsuya Wakuda, who dazzles eaters Down Under with creative Asian dishes, has a surprisingly simple tomato sorbet that calls for throwing tomato skins, seeds and all into a blender with a few other ingredients.

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And Neil Perry's Rockpool is a perennial favorite for tasting menus that rival Tetsuya's in the creative use of local ingredients such as a salad of green lip abalone, mussel, clam, tea-smoked oysters and noodles with truffle oil and mushroom soy dressing.

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For big-ticket dinners, Tetsuya Wakuda's Zen-like restaurant Tetsuya's in the central business district lives up to the hype and his world-class reputation: The nightly tasting menu features exhilarating combinations of flavors and the superlative ingredients for which Australia, and specifically Tasmania, are known, such as confit of Tasmanian ocean trout with konbu, daikon and fennel, and Spring Bay (Tasmanian) scallop with wakame and lemon.

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