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Posted on: Wednesday, October 27, 2004

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International Furusato to show off culinary skills

Advertiser Staff

The sweets will seem never-ending at the annual Cerebral Palsy Association benefit Nov. 7. For $20, you can have unlimited sampling of all the delicious goodies.

International Furusato Inc. corporate chef Shuji Abe, left, will showcase the work of his culinary team Nov. 4 at the company's L'Uraku restaurant, in a Contemporary Kaiseki dinner.

Sous chef Edison Ching, center, and kitchen manager Kawika Cahill, right, will turn out a seven-course meal including stuffed tomato cups, pumpkin and chestnut soup, snow-crab salad, Oysters Royale with matsutake sauce, grilled moi and miso-marinated beef steak. For dessert, a rarity in Hawai'i: a baked fig in honey sauce.

The meal is $70; $90 with matched wines. Seatings are from 5:15p.m. Reservations: 955-0552.

Get your fill of sweets — all to benefit a good cause

Like a sweet-lover's dream, Dessert Fantasy, an annual benefit for the United Cerebral Palsy Association, involves table after table lined with sweet things made by local bakers, pastry chefs and confectioners, with two hours of unlimited sampling.

It's set for 1 to 3 p.m. Nov. 7 in the Pacific Beach Hotel's Grand Ballroom. Cost is $20.

The event began 15 years ago as a birthday party for the organization and has become one of the agency's most popular annual events. Tickets: 532-6744.

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