Bacon Dashi

I can’t overstate the significance of bacon dashi to us at Momofuku. It’s not the dashi itself—though it is delicious—but the thought process that went into it. The successful transposition of bacon from Tennessee for Japanese dried and smoked fish was an important early success for us and it continues to be a driving inspiration of how we cook.

We respect tradition and we revere many traditional flavour profiles, but we do not subscribe to the idea that there’s one set of blueprint