Brooklyn Japanese Cuisine

Cafe Drake tried our hand at Crooklyn/Nippon fusion cuisine recently with Japanese food expert Miki Shimada. Luckily Miki approved of our rough experiments: after a few potent daiquiris straight up, we settled into a meal of peanut and ginger tofu stir-fried with purple bell peppers, kari carrots, brown rice with salmon mayonnaise (far better than it sounds, lost in translation), cucumber oshinto and a Japanese panzanella (the Italian bread salad reconfigured with rice wine vinegar, ginger and soy).