Dietary Habit in Japan!

Ankake Yakisoba

2008-01-12T20:36:00.000-08:00

Ankake Yakisoba

I think I have already intorduced it before :p

Just stirfry noodle and pour An(like sauce).

Usually Yakisoba is noodle and ingredients stirfried together with Okonomiyaki sauce in Japanese, but there are various yakisoba in Japan.

Especially kids love this food but I also like it :)

You can find it at Chinese restaurant near your place. Or Instant Yakisoba at JApanese groccery :p

Osechi

2008-01-10T04:39:00.000-08:00

Osechi

This is "Osechi Ryori". All Japanese family prepare(or perchase), probably as traditional celebrating new year.

Most of dishes are not as usual way to cool ingredients. And looks greater than usual dishes :)

Omisoka

2008-01-08T05:06:00.000-08:00

Omisoka

We call 31th December as "Oomisoka". I don't know why :X

Every family welcome their children or grand children coming, with unusual cuisine.

As well as, my mom bought this sashimi for my sister coming back from Osaka.

I don't remember exact amont of it, but there were a lot of people buying sashimi or sushi at market on 31th.

Maguro(Tuna), Kanpachi(maybe yellowtail) and squid sashimi. I especially like Kanpachi. Rich taste and flavor, but somehow I didn't like when I was a kid :p

I spent great time with my family with this and JApanese sake at the time.

I'm back!

2008-01-07T04:14:00.000-08:00

I apologize letting you wainting for so long time.

I begun working at new office since last saturday, and everythis seems goikng well :)

Anyway, I have a lot of photo of cuisines to introduce in my cellphone.

Stay tuned!!

Notice

2007-12-19T02:02:00.000-08:00

Being extremely busy due to job change ...:(

Will be back in 1 week. Let me apologize for inconvenience ..

Raw liver(liver sashimi)

2007-12-15T02:31:00.000-08:00

Raw river(liver sashimi)

Can you imagine how does this dish taste?

Generally qw can find it at Yakiniku restaurant. You can't find it at market. Freshness is important for eating dish like this.

Especially we like it as side dish for beer. Very thin sliced but taste strong.

I dip it into sesami oil, but dipping into soy sauce with ground ginger is preferable as well :)

You probably can find it at Yakiniku restaurant near your place.

Iwashi Mentaiko

2007-12-12T03:09:00.000-08:00

Iwashi Mentaiko

Iwashi means sardine and Mentaiko is cod ovum according to dictionary.

Mentaiko is popular food in Japan but I have heard that it was imported from Korea. If you want to know more, please google it.

Head and bowel removed, and mentaiko put into abdomen.

Just purchesed at the market and grill on Pan by oil stove fire :p

I ate it for the first time but felt nice combination!

But I think it is pretty hard to eat in overseas...

Shimesaba( vinegared mackerel) #2

2007-12-10T02:50:00.000-08:00

Shimesaba( vinegared mackerel) #2

I think I have already introduced in a long time ago :p

But I like it and can perchase at burgain plice if compared with Tuna sashimi, therefore I often take it in market.

I don't know the exactway how to make it, but usually sold in most of place where you can find sashimi.

If you find, try it with Japanese rice :)

Simple Pasta

2007-12-08T03:02:00.000-08:00

Simple Pasta

What I ate these days as side dish :)

Just stirfry bacon and garlic for a couple of minutes. Add pasta.

Simple but good side dish if I'm hungry.

Aji no Nanbanzuke

2007-12-05T02:39:00.000-08:00

Aji no Nanbanzuke

One of popular wat cooking Aji(Japanese horse mackerel) in Japan.

Put a little bit batter(probably flour) and deepfry it till its cooked, remove from the oil and dip into sauce and keep in fridge for a couple of hours.

Sauce is mix of soy sauce, vinegar and sugar. add this sliced onion and chopped chili if available :)

Mabo harusame

2007-12-03T04:19:00.000-08:00

Mabo harusame

This is an arange of Chinese Mabo series :p

I'm not sure what Mabo means in English, but we recognize it as red and spice something, flavor of Chinese spice.

I introduced about Mabo dofu before, so if you want to know about, please refer to the post.

Harusame is probably tight rice noodle. We put it into Nabe cuisine generally, but boil and stirfrying with sauce is delicious as well :D

Maguro Natto

2007-12-02T03:43:00.000-08:00

Maguro Natto

I'm not sure if I ever introduced about this strange(for foreigner) on this blog.

So if you don't know well about, please read this post.

I love it and have recommended to friend via weblog ever, but most of them can't accept :( Even if they are Japanese food lover..

Maguro Natto means Tuna and natto. In case of this, tuna is raw(as sashimi or sushi).

I think if you are reading this blog, probably you guys are intrested or like Japanese food. Including Tuna sushi(I think it is most popular Japanese food for foreigner).

I like Tuna sashimi as well, but natto make it better.

Just pour soy sauce as when you take tuna sashimi. Add wasabi if available :D

Sukiyaki and oil stove

2007-11-30T02:30:00.000-08:00

Sukiyaki and oil stove

In Japan, there are oil stove set at home on this season anually.

Since top of the oil stove become hot, we gather around it and put pan onto and eat :)

Sukiyaki is one of most popula nabe cuisine in Japan as well as shabu-shabu or Kimchi nabe that I introduced before.

Stirfly this sliced beef with soy sauce and sugar, and put vegetables and boil them. Ingredients will be tasty coating with the fat of the beef.

We usually prepare sauce for each nabe cuisine, but in case of sukiyaki, we put in into raw egg. It is just like sauce for sukiyaki :p

Miso Ramen

2007-11-29T02:02:00.000-08:00

Miso Ramen

Not Tonkotsu but I also like this ramen :)

Have you ever tasted Miso soup? There are so many foreigner like Japanese food, but only few guys like Miso or Miso soup.

It it one of mosttraditional ingredients of Japanese cuisine so we like it.

Ramen was imported from China but Tonkotsu and Miso Ramen are developed by Japanese, I believe.

Note that the noodle are not same. For tonkotsu, tight noodles are used, for Miso, thick are mostly used :p

I don't think there are only few restaurant serve it in overseas :(

Just a simple yakiniku at home

2007-11-25T02:35:00.000-08:00

Just a simple yakiniku at home

I want to go to Yakiniku restaurant on every weekend but if do so, I can't save money to do what I want to do :(

If I can't bear, just buy cheap meat at market. After 6 PM, most of meats are discounted.

As I said before, I believe that sauce is important for yakiniku. So research which one is most delicious prior to going store :p

The meats from NZ was not bad, but sauce made it delicious. Japanese beef are delicious but sold at foolish plice.

Milk seafood noodle

2007-11-23T04:51:00.000-08:00

Milk seafood noodle

lol I'm introducing strange food again :p

This is Nissin's latest line up "Milk seafood noodle".

If you know about Nissin's seafood noodle ever, you can imagine taste of this.

I think milk added to ordinary seafood noodle, and maintain taste and this one made up.

I love seafood noodle, and also Milk seafood noodle :)

I strongly recommend this to you. But I don't think you can find it in your countries yet(or never).

If so, just buy ordinary Nissin's seafood noodle at Japanese grocery and add a little bit milk.

A lot of Japanese like eating it as so.

Tuna Gyoza

2007-11-19T02:29:00.000-08:00

Tuna Gyoza

I think you have never tried this one.

Most of you would know what is gyoza, because it is one of most popular chinese cuisine. "Dumpling" in English.

Usually, inside of skin that is made of flour, there are mix of ground meats and chopped vegetables. But my mum replace it into tuna.

Not raw tuna as sashimi or sushi, I think you can find canned tuna(with oil) in every coutries. That is used for this case.

pick up tuna block and break it into flakes, mix with chopped onion, add salt and ground black pepper for seasoning.

Grill like as ordinary gyoza for a couple of minutes.

I like to eat this diped into ponzu, but probably other sauce can be used for this.

If you are one of person like gyoza, you must try it. I'm sure it make you surprised and satisfied :D

Yakiniku

2007-11-18T03:26:00.000-08:00

Yakiniku

Yes, long time has passed by since last time, we finally could eat yakiniku yesterday :D

We went to reasonable yakiniku restaurant, so the meats are not soft, tasty but it made us satisfied.

We believe that taste of sauce is important for yakiniku, not as other sauce i.e tonkatsu hot pot.

They serve delicious yakiniku sauce at burgain plice everyday. Just 1.5 USD for a beer, 2.5 USD per 1 plate of any meat.

I wish I could go back there as soon as possible :)

Chanpo men

2007-11-16T04:32:00.000-08:00

Yakiniku

This is chanpon men that I intoroduced a long time ago :p

My favorite Ramen is Tonkotsu ramen, and the soup of Chanpon men are made by Tonkotsu soup.

Tonkotsu means bones of pork, crash them and boil for more than 12 hours with a various vegetables.

Chanpon men is add seafood into tonkotsu soup and boil together for a couple of minutes.

Generally, shrimp, squid, scalop are added.

Have you ever eaten Nissin's seafood noodle?

It is similar as Chanpon men that I sometimes order at Mmy favorite ramen restaurant :p

Can be found at every Japanese grocery in your country.

Saba no amazu

2007-11-14T02:26:00.000-08:00

Saba no amazu

Saba is mackerel in English. Amazu is like sweet and sour sauce as you can imagine.

Simply batter mackerel and deepfry, and mix with the sauce.

I don't know if this sauce is original of Japan, but so popular. Every Japanese wives know how to cook it.

Just pour vinegar, soy sauce and sugar. After boiled for a couple of minutes, add potato starch to make it sticky.

Can be used for fried chicken, or pork. Chicken with sweet and sour sauce(Tori no amazu) is most popular in Japan :D

Stirfried Pork and potato

2007-11-11T03:18:00.000-08:00

Stirfried Pork and potato

Just easy side dish for beer last night.

I like fat of pork, because it is good combination with cold beer :D

I found guys drink beer with some side dish made by pork at every countries where I have ever been.

If I don't have any ingredient sin fridge, I just stifry thin sliced pork with salt and pepper, but this one is with potato.

It is served as french fry at burger shop near my home, but more thick than Mcdonald's french fry. I think both of them are french fry, anyway I like it :p

Stirfry them together and dip into Tonkatsu sauce with mustard.

Perfect for beer :D

This is yakisoba not as usual.

I think I have already wJapanese Yakisoba sauce,ritten about Japanese yakisoba before, but it may be brown color.

This one is white? Not taste of yakisoba sauce.

Called Shio(salt) sauce are used. These days it becomes popular for yakisoba.

When you try to cook Yakisoba someday and go to Japanese grocery, find various sauce similar, Otafuku sauce Ltd is recommended :D Biggest sauce maker in Japan.

Yakisoba

2007-11-08T05:25:00.000-08:00

Yakisoba

This is yakisoba not as usual.

I think I have already wJapanese Yakisoba sauce,ritten about Japanese yakisoba before, but it may be brown color.

This one is white? Not taste of yakisoba sauce.

Called Shio(salt) sauce are used. These days it becomes popular for yakisoba.

When you try to cook Yakisoba someday and go to Japanese grocery, find various sauce similar, Otafuku sauce Ltd is recommended :D Biggest sauce maker in Japan.

Expensive cheese

2007-11-06T03:04:00.000-08:00

Expensive cheese

My mum had 5000 yen ticket can be used at mall yesterday, so we went to mall to buy some unusual sidedish and wine :D

So we bought mentaiko, sausage, cheese and red wine.

Mentaiko and sausage are as delicious as we ate, but this cheese is most delicious we have ever had! We both amazed with the texture and flavor and taste :D

The wine are OK, but it is too sweet for me :( So drunk beer with this cheese ;p

Chicken & tomato

2007-11-02T05:21:00.000-07:00

Chicken & tomato

I don't know the exact name of this dish ;p but my mum sometimes cook this for my side dish.

Simple cut chicken breast into fillet and boile with canned tomato.

Seasoning are salt, pepper, sugar and ketchup and maggi.

Easy and fast food. Convenient for side dish for beer :D

Kake-Udon

2007-11-01T05:05:00.000-07:00

Kake-Udon

Well, November comes. In Japan, it's already on winter.

So Udon becomes my favorite noodle. It is better than Ramen when I want to make my body hot ;p

This is most simple udon, Kake-udon. Kake means pour.

Just boil udon and pour dashi onto it. So the taste of dashi is important for this.

On the udon, I add tenkasu, chopped onion spring, ground ginger and sesami.

It costs only 290 yen(2+ USD)! Much cheaper than Ramen.

Ramen is at least cost of 600 yen here and contains a little noodle, Udon is cheap and much :p

Ma-bo-Do-fu

2007-10-29T03:50:00.000-07:00

Ma-bo-Do-fu

I dont know if "Ma-bo-Do-fu" is correct writting in English :p

But Japanese pronouce so.

There are a lot of instant seasoning package for this, but it is very simple and delicious.

First, stirfly garlic and ginger, add Toubanjan(chinese chili paste) and chicken soup(maggi can be use), salt and sugar.

Add Tofu and stirfly them for a while, and then add soy sauce and oyster sauce ad chopped onion spring.

Done! It is very good combination with Japanese rice :D

Adobo

2007-10-27T04:38:00.000-07:00

Adobo

This is absolutely my favorite Filipino dish :p

Both with rice and beer, I like Adobo.

Maid san used to work at my condo told me how and I memorize, but I can't cook as delicious as the one she cook :(

I think it because of the difference of vinegar..

I don't like beef in the Philippines because it is to hard to chew, but porl and chicken are as delicious as Japanese(or checken are even better).

Sometimes I cook Foreign dishes and they make me recall my memories where I was.

Thai curry

2007-10-25T03:55:00.000-07:00

Thai curry

Again, I ate thai curry ;p

Japanese curry are good if with rice, but if with beer, it is to thick.

The thai curry are good both with rice or beer!

So sometimes I cook it. so spicy but I love it.

I also went to Indian curry restaurant a week ago, it is great as well :D

There are some meat in curry, beef, pork, chicken are used often.

My favorite is chicken ;p Cheapest but delicious!!

Katsuo no tataki

2007-10-23T04:31:00.000-07:00

Katsuo no tataki

This is lightly roasted bonito. Not sashimi.

Japanese like to eat bonito as tataki, but I don't know why and disagree.

Bonito sashimi is my favorite sashimi. I also like tataki, but if so, It is not my favorite.

Today my mom brought back this from her place, said given by her coworker had a trip to Kouchi prefecture.

Her coworker recommend to eat it with salt, and I tried for the first time, but It is not delicious at all!

I think tataki should be served with ponzu, bonito sashimi should served with sliced garlic. Not wasabi for it, garlic is better :D

Delux Ramen

2007-10-22T03:52:00.001-07:00

Delux Ramen

I love Ramen :D

I go to lunch to Ramen restaurant teice in a week,but I don't have money to order most expensive one :p

At most restaurant, Ramen are 500 yen to 1500yen.

So I usually order around 700 yen or 800 yen because cheapest one is too simple.

But yesterday, on holiday, I went out to new ramen restaurant and order delux ramen.

This contains double noodle, boiled egg, meat. So expensive.

It is first time for me to go there, but this ramen are really amazing!!

If you like tonkotsu ramen, you would go and enjoy there.

I have never seen foreigner like tonkotsu :p

Sanma kanzume

2007-10-19T05:33:00.000-07:00

Sanma kanzume

Japanese are good at develop instant food. Such as Ramen, or frozen food.

But as well as them, canned food are also convenient are delicious in Japan :p

This one is canned Sanma Kabayaki.

Sanma is one of cheapest and delicious fish here. Kabayaki means "grilled with soy sauce and sugar".

You can find this in ebery Japanese groccery worldwide, eat it with Japanese rice :D

Yu-dofu

2007-10-17T06:31:00.000-07:00

Yu-dofu

As I said before, agedashi-Dofu and Yu-dofu are my favorite dish using tofu.

Actually I don't like Hiyayakko(raw tofu) :p

Tofu(displayed as "dofu" sometimes) is bean-curd according to my dictionary, but I guess youguys have ever been to Japanese restaurant tried it already.

When I eat yudofu, I need to prepare 2 pan. 1 for boil tofu, and another for cook sauce.

Simply you just boiled tofu with hot water with konbu(seaweed broth) for a couple of minutes after boiling. tofu can be eaten as raw.

In another pan, pour a half cup of soy sauce, a quater of Mirin, and a quater of Japanese sake(if available. if not, use water instead) and Japanese instant buillon(not maggi!). Boil them toghther.

After damping a fire, add Katsuobushi(can't find in my dictionary. please google it) and chopped onion spring. Complete!

I ate it yesterday, and will eat it later. The sauce is so delicious :D

Character of Japanese snack

2007-10-15T05:27:00.000-07:00

Character of Japanese snack

This is one of my favorite snack in Japan.

But I don't eat snack as snack but when I drink beer. Yes this one is best match for beer.

As you see on the package, this is taste of Endou-Mame. One of bean.

Don't you think the character displayed on the package funny?

I laughed when I saw it :p

Traditional breakfast

2007-10-14T04:51:00.000-07:00

Traditional breakfast

This is one of most popular combination of Japanese breakfast.

These days bread breakfast is also popular among young generations, but I prefer rice breakfast rather than bread, boiled egg and orange juice.

On weekday, since I have to wake up early so I don't eat breakfast(sometimes ochazuke only lol), but I love to eat like this on weekend.

Rice and Miso soup are necessary, I choose which fish I ate from various line-up.

I like sake(salmon), saba(chub mackerel), aji(Japanese horse mackerel), hokke, and yellowtail as grilled.

At this time, I ate saba.

If it's not enough, I bring Nori(seaweed), Tsukemono(pickles) or raw egg from fridge
:D

probably the breakfast served at hotels in Japan looks like this. But if you prefer English breakfast, they will have it.

Salmon Sashimi

2007-10-12T04:28:00.000-07:00

Salmon Sashimi

Oily and tasty taste andbeatiful texture it has.

I love all sashimi, especially oily fishes.

Yellowtail, tuna(not back side), salmon, yellowfin are my favorite. But cheapest is Salmon. Otherwise so expensive :(

we can find "save 50%" salmon sashimi after 6PM at market, so I usually perchase it :p

Salmon sushi is also great.

Instant Mentaiko Pasta

2007-10-08T04:35:00.000-07:00

Instant Mentaiko Pasta

THese days, most of all convenience store sell instant Mentaiko pasta(Microwave cooking).

Sorry to attach dirty picture. I took mistake :|

If you come to Japan, and I think everyone will go to convenience store, take this and enjoy Japanese traditional(?) pasta :D

Remember, cut seaweed is always beside mentaiko pasta :)

Nikujaga

2007-10-06T04:21:00.000-07:00

Nikujaga

Well this is one of traditional Japanese food and girls learn how to cook at the first time in thier lives.

Simply just boil ingredients, but it is popular Japanese cuisine.

Have you ever heard about "Iron chef America" and Chef Morimoto?

I don't remember which channnel is the TV program broadcasted, but I saw it every week in the Philippines :)

The original is Japanese program "Ryori no tetsujin" and remaked in US and broadcasted as "Iron chef America". So we all know the system of the show.

Well, if you know Chef Morimoto's restauraqnt, you can go there and order Nikujaga with Matsuzaka beef!

I was so surprized when I heard about it, but maybe they still serves it there :)

At least, they had it when they opened the restaurant ...

Nikuman

2007-10-05T05:12:00.001-07:00

Nikuman

This is nikuman and I guess you have ever seen it in your country.

I eat this for quick breakfast or snack when I'm in rush or drinving.

I don't know what is inside of the skin made of flour, but there are various Chuuka-man(means chinese bun or like that Nikuman belongs to it).

Nikuman is cooked ground meat and vegetables inside skin.

Anman is bean jam inside.

Curry man is Japanese curry inside.

Pizza man is pizza taste ground meat inside :p

You could see this everywhere in Japanese convenience store on winter.

Now Winter comes near, so they are beginning selling them. I love it ;p

Agedashi Tofu

2007-10-04T03:41:00.000-07:00

Agedashi Tofu

This is Agedashi tofu.

Agedashi means deepfry or something like that.

Tofu is .....tofu I hope you know that. I don't know how to say in English :p

Simply dredge a little bit potato starch onto tofu and deepfry it.

Sauce is Ponzu. Have you ever heard about it?

It is one of most popular sauce in JApan and each family has stock in their fridge.

It is made of soy sauce and sour liquid(i.e venegar, lemon juice, like that) and some other seasonings.

Various kinds of ponzu sold in the market in Japan, and we often use it for dishes.

I love Tofu, and this one and Yu-dofu are my favorites.

I will eat Yu-dofu twice in a week on winter, so I think I will introduce later :)

Nilaga

2007-10-02T05:07:00.000-07:00

Nilaga

OK, I begin blogging from now on, moving hosting account have done smoothly :)

This is "Nilaga" and not Japanese cuisine but Philippine cuisine.

Actually, it is my favorite Filipino dish. I lived there for 2 years so I think I have tried most of all Filipino dishes, I love some of them.

If you can find Filipino restaurant in your country, I recommend you trying Nilaga, Adobo, Pancit lomi, kinilaw(marinated tuna). They are my favorites.

The maid san worked at my condo told me how to cook nilaga, but I can not find most important seasoning for nilaga in Japan.

It was cold "Patis" in the Philippines, I think it is one of fish sauce.

Well so First you need to prepare potato, cabbage(chinese cabbage can be behalf), , beef or pork, maggy, black pepper, and fish sauce.

Boil all and add seasoning. Thats all :p

I will introduce some foreign cuisine that I experienced and still remembering how-to-cook sometimes.

I love them!

Notice

2007-09-27T04:22:00.000-07:00

I will move domains to another hosting account that includes images attached to this blog soon.
Therefore, images will be temporary unavailable to be displayed for a while, I think I will be back in a week :p

Yakisoba

2007-09-26T03:43:00.000-07:00

Yakisoba

No need to explain if you ever come this blog :p

Ingredients are thin sliced pork, cabbage, carrot and soba and sauce.

I think Yakisoba sauce is unique taste of Japan, it is used for various dishes.

Okonomiyaki, Yakisoba, Tonkatsu and more...

If you see it at Japanese grocery in your country, you shoul try. Every Japanese like the sauce :)

Kimchi nabe

2007-09-24T04:33:00.000-07:00

Kimchi nabe

"Nabe" means Hot soup and ingredients in pot.

There are various nabe in Japan, especially eaten on winter to make our body hot.

Kimchi nabe is one most popular nabe in Japan.

Ingresients are thin sliced pork, tofu, onion spring, chinese cabagge, and chive.

It's on autumn in Japan and winter in coming, I think most of post will be describing about nabe soon :)

Yakitori

2007-09-23T04:29:00.000-07:00

Yakitori

One of my faorite sidedish for beer, Yakitori!

Simply, break down chicken into each piece and grill on charchol fire.

This one is unpopular part of chicken(I don'T exactly know which part is it) so very cheap at market :)

Which part of chicken is expensive in your country? In Japan, Chicken thigh(I still unablte to pronounce this word) are popular and expensive, breast is almost a half plice of thigh.

I agree, thigh is juicy and delicious for any kind of cooking, brest are only used for deepfried.

For Yakitori, breast are not delisious at all. Thigh are most popular.

Butyou know, Chicken skin and Sunagimo(I don't know how to say in English) are also popular.

My favorite ingredients for Yakitori is chicken skin. Crispy!

Kanikama tempura

2007-09-22T04:26:00.000-07:00

Kanikama tempura

First of all I need to explain what "Kanikama" is for you. I saw it in the Philippines and called "crab stick".

It is just like fish sausagethat tastes LIKE clab. Actually there are no club meats inside :p

Necause clubs are so expensive because it is so pupular among Japanese here, someone developed the way to try crab taste at a low plice.

We all are looking for eats on crab on Japanese resraurant on winter, but usually eat this at home.

As a ingredients of salad, is the way Japanese eats it usually, but we cook it into tempura :p

I tried it recently in th Philippines for the first time, and knew it is delicious and how crab stick should be cook!

Crispy and tasty, but remember that you need to buy expnsive crab stick if cook it into tempura. Cheap one is not good for tempura but as ingredients of salad.

Satoimo & baby squid Nimono

2007-09-20T04:28:00.001-07:00

Satoimo & baby squid Nimono

Have I already described about nimono?

It is traditional cooking way for Japanese. "Ni" means boil up in English this time.

So what is the seasoning for boil up ingredients with?

Well, I am not sure you can get it in your country, you may need to buy dashi, soy sauce, Mirin, and Japanese sake(rice wine).

Just mix 3 cup of dashi, 4 tablespoon of soy sauce, 2 tablespoon of Mirin and Sake. If you like sweet, add more sake or mirin.

Now, you can begin boil up ingredients.

Most of begetables and fish can be cooked into Nimono, such as the combination of potato, carrot, burdock and chicken.

The above photo is Nimono of baby squid(less than 5cm) and Satoimo.

Satoimo is not delicious if not cook with seasoning, but it becomes great when boiled up with seafood :p

Mentaiko Pasta

2007-09-18T06:40:00.000-07:00

Mentaiko Pasta

:p No need to explain. I have written about Mentaiko Pasta more than 3 or 4 times on this blog.

My and Most of Japanese's favorite pasta.

Pasta with cream or ketchup is most popular in your country isn't it?

Japanese absolutely favor Mentaiko Pasta :D

As dinner, lunch, or side dish for beer, it's anytime favorite to me!

Jumbo curry

2007-09-17T04:23:00.000-07:00

Jumbo curry

Yesterday, I went to curry restaurant that reently opened.

They are dealing discunting curry fair for 1 month from their opening day, I knew it via TV.

The above photo is most expensive curry at the restaurant and costs 1500yen($12) usually, but we can eat it as 1000yen for now.

It contains 500g of steamed rice(too much for Japanese), 2 tonkatsu,2 sausage, 1 egg and 1 shrimp fry.

I ordered it and the staff brought it, and I said "Hey it is absolutely too much for me! Are they kidding me?" but, when I saw a man at the back of my table, he is eating curry same mine. So I realize it and begun eating.

Since leaving foods that YOU are the one order is rude in Japan, I ate it all of them. So I had heatburn all day long yesterday :(

Next time I go there, I will try smaller size. But unless the problem about ampount of rice, I don't think the curry totally better than other restaurant.

I recommend you to go to Indian restarant if you will come to Matsuyama city :p

Instant pasta

2007-09-15T04:44:00.000-07:00

Instant pasta

Well, Japanese are very good at developing instant and delicious food.

As you know, world first instant noodle are developed by Nisshin, Japan's most famous instant noodle supplier.

Cupnoodle series are popular among Asian coutries. I didn't see much Nisshin products in Thai, but so many in the Ohilippines.

I think more than 100 kinds of instant noodle made by Nisshin are sold in the Philippines.

Nisshin has instant Ramen,Yakisoba, Udon, and spagetti already, and all of them are delicious for me.

But these day, Nisshin launch instant Ramen and Pasta can be cook witout hot water!

Just pour a little cold water and put it in microwave, it willl be delicious pasta in 3 mins.

So I tried, but I prefer original that need be cook with hot water :(

But I think Nisshin improve the texture of noodle soon.

They do great jpb evrytime for us.

Kimchi udon

2007-09-14T07:00:00.000-07:00

Kimchi udon

This is udon with kimchi.

Kimchi is Korean's original but so popular in Japan.

With rice, with yakiniku, with soup, gyoza and even with noodles, we like to put together.

Ingredients are kimchi, egg, onion spring, this sliced pork, and kimchi and udon.

A little bit spicy but I usually add much chili to make it more hot :p

Kimchi is so spicy in Korea but sweet in Japan. We cant eat very spicy foods :(

Brief lunch

2007-09-12T02:48:00.000-07:00

Brief lunch

This is luch that I cook by myself on weekend.

Well, I'm lazy to cook usually so go out for luch, but when I don't have much money to do it, I prepare at home.

The rice is always in rice cooker at mt home, so I just need to cook some dish and soup.

Miso soup is instant. Just tear package of mixed seasoning and dried tohu and seaweed, yakisoba is just need to be poured hot water.

Haha I just need to spend 5 minuets to prepare :p

Katsudon

2007-09-09T04:28:00.000-07:00

Katsudon

This is Katsudon. I think I have already introduced about "Katsu" or "Tonkatsu". They are same.

"Don" means bowl. In Japanese, every food served in bowl are names "xxxx-Don".

Here are example.

Gyudon ... thin sliced beef boiled with sweet soy sauce on steamed rice.

Tendon ... Tempura on steamed rice.

Oyakodon ... Chicken and half cooked egg on steamed rice.

Kaisendon ... Fresh seafood on steamed rice(or Sushi rice instead).

There are a lot of restaurant serves only "xxx-don" in Japan, workers goes there on lunch to eat quick and save money :p

Imotaki

2007-09-08T04:41:00.000-07:00

Imotaki

I don't know very well about food life of guys lives in Tokyo, but Imotaki is king of "Food of Autumn" in my hometown.

Since Japan has 4 beatiful season, most of vegetables has their unique season to be most delicious.

Imo is potato in Japanese, but some kinds of potato exists in Japan. Aroid is cooked into Imotaki.

In Japan, especially around my hometown, aroid become most delicious on Autumn, all of us enjoy Imotaki on autumn every yeah and realize that autumn comes.

I hate summer in Japan because it is too hot recently, I hope autumn comes soon :p

Bazil Pasta

2007-09-07T03:57:00.000-07:00

Basil Pasta

Haha noodle comes again. I think I replace the title of this blog to "Noodle lover in Japan" :D

Recently I write blog with my cellphone but sometimes security pop-up appears to often. And any activity(writing, reading, editing) about blog is locked somehow.

I think Blogger take some countermeasure to fix it.

Well. It is Bazil Pasta for dinner. It didn't make me full but I want to be hungry soon again to drink beer :p

Now I'm getting tight than before ;p

Curry Udon

2007-09-05T07:18:00.000-07:00

Curry Udon

As I said before, I like curry.

Thai curry(thin curry) is best for me, but I think I prefer curry udon than that.

Simply, curry udon is curry withudon instead of plane rice.

Udon is not popular among people live in Tokyo, but I like any kinds of Udon.

But, as far as other Japanese cuisine, the most simple way is the best for us.

sometimes I really want to eat curry udon, but I choose ordinary udon for daily eating :p

I wrote it about a couple days ago, dashi udon is best for me.

Tempura make udon dashi oily and tasty :D

Hiyashi chikuwaten udon

2007-09-04T05:52:00.000-07:00

Hiyashi chikuwaten udon

Hey I'm eating udon nearly everyday ;p

I thought the Autumn comes but summer still last.

When I feel hot, I cannot eat rice on lunch.

So I went to Udon restaurant.

"Hiyashi" means "cold"

"Chikuwaten" means "Chikuwa tempura"

you know chikuwa tempura is as good as other tempura but cost so cheap! So popular among guys don't like to pay much on lunch.

I ordered "Oomori" that means "double size" or "Large" to staff works there, but it still cost only 3US$.

It made me full and satisfied :D

Viking restaurant

2007-09-03T03:53:00.000-07:00

viking restaurant

I went to viking restaurant last Sunday.

I'm not sure that I could call it "viking".

I mean pay some money and can take unlimited foods from a lot of dishes.

It is "viking" in Japanese.

This restaurant locates in Dogo area, so needless to say, when you eat at restaurant, you can get free Onsen ticket :p

A lot of old people loves staying all day long at Dogo.

Onsen and foods makes us refreshed :D

Sanma

2007-09-01T06:05:00.000-07:00

Sanma

When we find Sanma in market, we realize that autumn comes.

Sanma is the name of fish on above photo, I don't know what do you foreigner call it.

The taste is fishy and tasty. Also cooked into Sashimi or Sushi.

Because of the develop of aquaculture, we can eat it unless the climate.

But we know that we can eat delicious sanma only on autumn. On spring or summer, not dlicious at all :(

If you are in Japan or will come to Japan on September or October, I strongly recommned you to eat Sanma with plane rice and Miso soup. Our favorite :D

Udon

2007-08-30T05:39:00.000-07:00

Udon

Today my mum cooked hot Udon.

Because the autumn comes in Japan(begins end of September usually) and climate is getting cooler that before.

I ate Udon for lunch today and tonight. But I still want toeat it tomorrow :p

Udon tastes so simple, so Dashi and ingredients are most important.

I love Udon with chicken and burdock. Have you ever tried it? Recommeded!

Bento

2007-08-28T05:32:00.000-07:00

Bento

I ate bento tonight because I was not hungry at the time.

I think I ate too much in Yoshinoya :p

This bento box includes Udon and mini Sushi.

I like Udon as well as Ramen, so I choose this one. There are "save 50 yen" seal on the cap.

So I'm hungry now and will eat much oily foods and beer.

It makes me more fat but I can't help drinking alcholic drink and high choresterol side dish again :(

Ramen

2007-08-27T05:15:00.000-07:00

Ramen
As usual, I ate noodle for l;unch today.

Sorry to upload unclear picture, I tested new software in my cellphone. It's unuseful :(

I ate ramen 3 times in a week at my favorite restaurant on lunch, I guess it makes me fat now...

It is so delicious for me, but contains much fat.

Usually, Ramen is configured with noodle and soup. The soup is made of the bones of pork and vegetables. Unfortunately, I think Ramen served in oveaseas are not what I like.

My favorite Ramen is oily, looks dirty, and smell bad(for me, great smell but foreigners says it smells horrible).

That's what my favorite lunch. But I also like other noodle such as Udon and Somen.

"Men" means noodle in Japanese :p

Rei Shabu

2007-08-26T05:51:00.000-07:00

Rei Shabu
This is Rei Shabu in Japanese.

Have you ever tried Shabu-shabu in Japanese restaurant?

I think it is one of most popular Japanese traditional cuisine.

It is lightly boiled meats in Shabu-shabu pan on thr dining table, not in kitchen.

So we boil meats by oneself with our chopstics and dip into sauce and take.

I will introduce it on upcoming winter. Japanese love to eat shabu-shabu on winter to make our body warm.

Today we ate REI-shabu. shabu is qoated from Shabu-shabu and REI means cold.

That is made of lettuce and thin sliced pork that is lightly boiled and cold in icing cold water.

That's how Japanese eats shabu-shabu on summer :p

Nama Harumaki

2007-08-25T04:03:00.000-07:00

Nama Harumaki
This is our dinner for tonight.

I think you guys have ever tried harumaki in your own country.

It is spring roll in English. Popular as far in Japan.

But, most of spring roll is deepfried in Japan, what I ate tonight is different.

Well, harumaki means spring roll, what "nama" means?

"Nama" means raw in English.

Yes, this is raw-springroll.

As you see in above photos, ingredients are various.

Just roll ingredients you prefer, and dip into sweet sauce and eat them.

I thought it is Thai foods, but according to the package of sauce, it's vietnamese cuisine.

I like it!!

ojiya

2007-08-23T05:20:00.000-07:00

ojiya
This is Ojiya. I think it is for guys who have a cold or other sick and being not able to eat ordinary dishes.

ojiya is made of rice, soup, and some begetables. So people who are not good in their phisical condition eats this in Japan.

Because I drunk too much last night and my stomach is not good still now, I asked my mum to cook it.

Simple as is, just pour Japanese dashi soup and steamed rice and other begetables into a pan, boil them for 10 minutes.

Try this when you have hangover.

Miso soup can be use instead of japanese dashi soup if availble. They are good for stomach, we believe ;p

kushi katsu

2007-08-21T03:47:00.000-07:00

Kushi Katsu
Today I will introduce Kushi Katsu.

kushi means stick. Katsu means deepfry.

As you see in thr above photo, I prepared a lot of ingredients.

Pumpkins, onion, potatos, diced cheese, chicken and pork. I spent a half day to do it :p

After that just put into batter and deepfry on dining table not kitchen! So we can eat very hot fry up.

Sauce is bulldog tonkatsu sauce as usual :D

It's also one of my favorite side dish for beer!

Yakitori-Don

2007-08-20T04:35:00.000-07:00

\yakitori- Don

Well I didn't update blog for a week due to trip of Obon, but I restart blogging from today.

This is Yakitori Don famous in Japan.

Have you ever tried Yakitori?

Yaki means grill or stirfry, Tori means Chicken, so Yakitori means grilld chiken simply. Usually how-to-grill is sticked and grilled on charcol fire.

I made it at home tonight, but I can't prepare charcol and stick. Therefore I used pan and no stick.

Just stirfry till chicken gets gold, and add sauce and stirfry them together for a couple of minutes.

Sauce is made of 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of sugar and 2 tablespoon of soy sauce and water.

Sweet and tasty sauce, one of traditional taste of Japan.

I'm not sure but I guess I like chicken more than beef and pork now :D

I love the texture of chicken thigh :p

Pasta

2007-08-12T02:53:00.000-07:00

Pasta

I'm not sure how can I call this pasta.

This is stirfried pasta with garlic, chili, and bacon.

I ate this one for lunch today, I'm so hungry now (7pm in Japan).

Noodles can't make me full for a long time.

This is always one of most popular pasta in Japan, I think it because the ease of the procedure.

I don't need to prepare knife. Just tear ingredients and stirfry with pasta.

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I will leave for a short time trip to my friend's place for about 5 days. I'm not yet sure when I will come back.

After I waste all of my money, I will be back :p)

I'm not sure that I can visit your blog or reply comment. Thank you for your understanding!

This is side dish with beer last night.

It's simple. There are humbulg steak sold in market, we just need to buy them.

Usually, "save 50%" seal are put after 6om. so it costs 50 cents per each.

If you like it, you can grill it and take.

But I prefer this small meat ball rather than humbulg steak.

So I mix all 4 humbulg steak and pug them. Dredge a little bit potato starch and depfry them(not grill).

And then I dip them into soy sauce and Japanese Karashi(mastard) sauce.

Great combination with beer, but it is popular among kids :D

Meat ball

2007-08-10T04:26:00.000-07:00

Meat ball

This is side dish with beer last night.

It's simple. There are humbulg steak sold in market, we just need to buy them.

Usually, "save 50%" seal are put after 6om. so it costs 50 cents per each.

If you like it, you can grill it and take.

But I prefer this small meat ball rather than humbulg steak.

So I mix all 4 humbulg steak and pug them. Dredge a little bit potato starch and depfry them(not grill).

And then I dip them into soy sauce and Japanese Karashi(mastard) sauce.

Great combination with beer, but it is popular among kids :D

Kabocha tempura

2007-08-06T06:52:00.000-07:00

Kabocha tempura

Just another side dish with beer yesterday.

This is easist and delisious tempura at home. Crispy and sweet :D

I eat this once in a week :p

Can you believe that this one is very good combinationswith Japanese whiskey?

Big sausage

2007-08-05T04:30:00.000-07:00

Big sausage

It's surely imported. not Japanese traditional dish.

But so popular in Japan. I love it when I drink beer :D

Usually, sausage is expensive food in Japan, but this sausage packed 10 sausages in 1 plastic and cost only $3!

My mum found it today, I will buy it again and again :p

Katsu curry

2007-08-04T07:36:00.000-07:00

Katsu curry

Katsu curry is one of most popula dish among Japanese children.

Served together on one plate.

I also loved it in my boyhood too :p but now my stomach can not accept this very oily cuisine :(

I know the curry in India is not as sticly as Japanese curry, in Thai, not sticky at all.

I prefer them rather than Japanese one because I like hot.

We add a large variety of food onto curry rice(curry on the rice).

Tonkatsu is most popular. Deepfried prawn is also.

You can see details of Tonkatsu at this post.

They are perfect combination.

Tonkatsu + Curry + rice = Katsu curry :D

Yakiniku at home

2007-08-03T05:13:00.000-07:00

Yakiniku at home

I am so satisfied because I ate Yakiniku just now :D

Usually, we go to Yakiniku restaurant to eat Yakiniku, but I cook Yakiniku by myself at home. Meats are sold in market.

Needless to say, Yakiniku restaurant serves great meats such as Kobe beef and they are much more delicious than meats sold in market, but we can buy standatd meats at market like this

Large variety of meats packed together, good for 3 or 4, and cost just $9!

Because... do you see yellow seal on the plastic cap ??? lol.. it displays "Save 300 yen". yes, it was discounted.

This is what we use for grill meats as yakiniku at home on the table, so we could eat hot meats those are just removed from fire.

Cooking... it's simple :p grill begetables. it will protect your stomach from fat.

Enjoy! Dip into the sauce and eat them!

Take Kimchi if available ;D

Hangaku Salmon

2007-08-01T06:18:00.000-07:00

Hangaku Salmon

Today I introduce Japanese important language.

It is "Hangaku". Have you ever heard it?

It means 50% off. You can see a yellow seal on wrap, there are kanji character of "Hangaku" displayed.

This salmon sashimi cost $3 usually, but if I can find yellow seal, the amount is $1.5 :p

After 5PM, You can see a lot of the seal in fresh fish area at supermarket.

There are various seal for promoting, 200yen Off, 300yen OFf, 30% Off etc..

Yakisoba with soup

2007-07-31T05:37:00.000-07:00

Yakisoba with soup

As I described many times, I like noodles so much!

There are a lot kind of Yakisoba in Japan, this one is latest style yakisoba.

I just need to buy package of Yakisoba that includes deepfried soba(noodle) and soup.

There are some begetables in flidge always, so I just add it.

Usually Yakisoba doesn't contains soup, but this Yakisoba have a little bit soup. IT makes noodle more tasty and smell so good :p

I drink too much whiskey these days, noodles cure my stomach! Easy to cook, easy to eat, and delicious!

Una juu

2007-07-30T05:35:00.000-07:00

Una juu

Have you ever try this one?

This is Una juu. "broiled eel served over rice a lacquered box" according to my dictionary.

It is one of most popular and expensive cuisine of Japanese.

I also love this cuisine so much :p

We believe eel cure our tired, so recommended to be eaten especially on summer.

Today the day of eel cited by Japanese government, so my mum took it.

Eel doesn't looks good(yucky?) but so delicious if cooked as Japanese style!

Pi-man no nikudsume

2007-07-29T05:57:00.000-07:00

Pi-man no nikudsume

Am I correct that I spell "Nikudsume"? Im not sure.

Pi-man no nikudsume means "meats in green pepper".

Acutually I don't like green pepper because it is bitter and smell a little bit of strange.

But if it is cooked into this way, I like it :p

Simple to cook. Just mix ground pork and beef and add salt and pepper, and put it into pepper and grill on the pan.

Great combination with beer!

Saba Makizushi

2007-07-28T05:30:00.000-07:00

Saba Makizushi

I think sushi is popular among foreigner, but I don't think this one is popular.

As there are a lot kind of sushi here in Japan, what is most popular?

Tuna? or Salmon?

Those sushi served in Japanese restaurant in overseas, and expensive.

In Japan we eat other fish when we don't have enough money to go to Sushi restaurant.

Aji and Saba are one of most fish as ingredients of reasonable sushi.

In English, they are Japanese horse mackerel andchub mackerel according to my dictionary.

The photo I attached is Saba Makizushi.

It is reasonable and delicious :p

Kabocha Salad

2007-07-26T06:00:00.000-07:00

Kabocha Salad

Kabocha is pumpkins(or should I say squash?) in English.

As you cook mashed potato salad, this is same how to cook.

When we cook mashed potato salad, we put mashed potato, sliced oninon, sliced bacon, and chopped carrot and some other begetables in flidge. Seosoning are salt, pepper, mayonaise.

Used mashed pumpkins instead of potato, you can cook kabocha salad.

I like kabocha more than potato, so I like this salad ;p

Soumen

2007-07-25T05:07:00.000-07:00

Soumen

This is Soumen. One of traditional noodle in Japan.

As you see Udon here, soumen is very tight noodle if compare with Udon.

Suace is same. Flavor of Dashi and soysauce.

Usually, we put sesame seeds and ground ginger into sauce to make it better.

Chopped onion is also good for soumen sauce.

Due to unbearable hot climate on Juky and August in Japan, we prefer cold noodles rather than ramen or ordinary cuisine.

But when I was Philippines, where has more hot climate than Japan has, all of my Filipino friends said that they have never eaten cold noodles :(

But when I recommend it to them once, they say "Yummy!". Especially the maid works in my condo love this and cold Soba :p

Tori no Misoyaki

2007-07-23T04:26:00.000-07:00

Tori no Misoyaki

This is Tori no misoyaki.

I think you have ever heard about Miso. Yes, it is used for Miso soup that is served in Japanese restaurant.

Miso is also used to be cooked as sauce in Japan. This is chicken grilled with Miso sauce.

Sauce is simpley made of miso, mirin, sugar and soy sauce.

This sauce can be used for grilled fish. It is delicious as well!

Yakitori w/o stick :p

2007-07-22T04:21:00.000-07:00

Yakitori w/o stick :p

Yesterday, I really want to eat yakitori, but I had no money to go to yakitori restaurant this month because I bought new cellphone..

So I decided to cook it by myself.

In Yakitori restaurant, sticked diced chicken are grilled on charchol fire. But I don't have stick or charchol in my home :(

I thought that "I can't eat yakitori" and disappointed, so I cook yakitori "w/o stick" and grilled on pan NOT charchol fire.

But it was good! I have never done like that but I made conclusion that yakitori could be eaten at home! How-To is just dice chicken and dredge salt and pepper.

You see the small red-capped bottle on first picture, it is ground red chili pepper. Every Japanese have there own at home, and dredge it on a large variety of dishes. Called "Ichimi" or "Shichimi" in Japanese.

Dredge like this,

When I lived in the Philippines or in Thai, it was always in stock on the cabinet :p

When you tried to cook yakitori at home, buy this at Japanese store together :p

Today's Ebi tempura

2007-07-20T22:37:00.000-07:00

Today's Ebi tempura

I tried to cook Ebi tempura well. Ebi is shrimp in English.

I bought instant mixed tempura batter and add water and ice into bowl.

Shrimp need to be dredged salt and pepper prior to be coated.

I attach one more picture. see,

You see tempuras on the right, these are with thick(much powder and few water as batter) tempura batter.

On the left, those are with thin(less powder) batter.

I prefer thin batter rather than thick, but my mum said thick one is more tasty.

I need to learn more about it.

It's OK but not as well as the one served in renstaurant :(

Aji fry

2007-07-19T05:23:00.000-07:00

Aji fry

This is Aji fry in Japanese. Aji is Japanese horse mackerel according to my dictionary.

Batter is same as Tonkatsu.

But actually I bought it as frozen with batter. So I don't need to do the discusting procedure. Just need to be taken from freezer and deepfryid.

When I don't have any sausage, ham, or meat, I deepfry it and eat with whiskey :p)

Don't forget to serve this with bulldog sauce :D

Yakitori

2007-07-18T04:32:00.000-07:00

Yakitori

This is Yakitori, Grilled sticked-meat on charcoal fire.

"Yaki" means Grill, "Tori" means chicken.

There are large variety of ingredients cooked into Yakitori. Vegetables, seafoods, and meats, but you know, everything that sticked and grilled on the charcoalfire is "Yakitori" in Japan. Vegetables and seafoods are also.

These yakitori are pork and chicken.

From left, thick sliced pork, skin of chicken, and diced chicken.

You can choose sauce for them from sweet sauce(just like teriyaki sauce) or salt and pepper.

I prefer salt taste rather than sweet sauce.

Good combination with beer.

Home made tempura

2007-07-17T06:19:00.000-07:00

Home made tempura

Does it looks delicious?

That's what I ate at dinner a couple of days ago.

Combination of my favorites :D

Chikuwa tempura with seaweed-tempura-coating.

Crab stick tempura.

Sweet potato tempura

Tempura coating is crispy and soft ;p

But now I want to eat tempura of seafood...

Japanese traditional breakfast

2007-07-16T04:09:00.000-07:00

Japanese traditional breakfast

Have you ever been to Japanese restaurant at hotel in the morning?

If you stay at hotel in Japan, they will ask you which do you prefer from Japanese style breakfast or Western style.

In most case, "Japanese breakfast" that served in Japanese hotel are configured with Plane rice, Omulet, Grilled fish, and Miso soup.

If you want more, they will serve Nori(seaweed) or Nattou.

So It could be most traditional configuration of Japanese breakfast.

These days, especially young generations eat bread and ham-egg and orange juice(is it traditional western breakfast? I think so ;p) as their breakfast. But I prefer Japanese style rather than Western style.

Fish can be replaced into mackerel, Brevoort, ribbon fish and any reasonable fish. Expensive fish such as sea bream, yellow tail, tuna are also delicious but served on dinner.

Miso soup is also important for Japanese. Today's miso soup is made of Sweet potato and this sliced pork.

Horumon Yaki

2007-07-15T05:05:00.000-07:00

Horumon Yaki

This looks like yakiniku? Yes, it is one of dish served in Yakiniku restaurant.

But meat is "Horumon". Horumon means innards.

We eat most of all innards of beef, such as tongue, heart, liver, bowel, lung and more.

Tongue and bowel are most popular. I like both but I don't like liver yakiniku.

But I love raw liver :D Can you eat it?

I don't need to go to Yakiniku restaurant to eat them. I can buy delicious Horumon in the market.

Like this. It is packed with sauce so I just need to stirfry with onion spring.

It is also great combination with beer :p

Chicken cutlet

2007-07-13T05:41:00.000-07:00

Chicken cutlet

Chicken cutlet is also popular in Japan.

I think it was imported from Europe a long time ago.

"Crispy and soft" is most important when Japanese cook cutlet.

And for sauce, Bulldog tonkatsu sauce is best :D

Please check this post to know about bulldog sauce.

Potato chips salad

2007-07-12T04:58:00.000-07:00

Potato chips salad

This is a salad that my mum cooks sometimes.

Salad with POTATO CHIPS! Is this way popular in your country?

Just shred lettuce and chop onion spring in the bowl, and add potato chips at last.

Sauce is black pepper, soy sauce and squeeze of lemon. That's all.

It's simple but delicious :D Particularly kids love this.

Chicken Ham

2007-07-11T07:18:00.000-07:00

Chicken Ham

Hmm Ham and sausage are very good for whiskey :D

This is chicken ham. it doesn't contain much fat, so it could be healthy.

Whiskey is high cholesterol drink, so I need to take care of stomach and liver :(

We usually souse mayonnaise and dredge Japanese dried chili pepper when we eat ham or sausage.

Mastard is also make good combination with meat ;D

Ankake Yakisoba

2007-07-10T04:21:00.000-07:00

Ankake Yakisoba

Today I introduce one of my favorite noodle in Japan.

This is ankake yakisoba. I introduced yakisoba here, but this one is different from it.

"Ankake" is important. It means "with sticky soup".

Stirfry noodles and put it in the plate, and souse sticky soup over fried noodle.

The sticky soup is made of maggy broth and vegetables and seafoods. Add potato starch finally to make it sticky.

I prefer Ankake rather than ordinary yakisoba :D

Noodles are popular in Asia, I like all of noodles that I have ever eaten in Asia!

Nattou Maki

2007-07-09T04:00:00.000-07:00

Nattou Maki

This is nattou sushi roll.

If you don't know about "nattou" please check this post.

"Maki" means "roll" in English. So Nattou Maki means sushi roll with Nattou.

Ordinary sushi is "Nigiri-sushi". "Nigiri" means "grip".

There are a lot of fresh fish and other things to be cooked into sushi in japan.

But you know, some of Japanese children don't like raw fish like that foreigner do.

I didn't like raw yellowtail when I was child because it is so oily(now, I love it).

So there are a large variety of sushi that doesn't made by fish in sushi restaurant in Japan.

Such as, Chicken teriyaki, Yakiniku, Humberg steak, Prawn tempura, omulet(all of them are put onto rice and cooked into sushi!) and other ingredients depends on a place.

So everyone can enjoy their time in sushi resturant in Japan.

Hijiki

2007-07-08T05:54:00.000-07:00

Hijiki

This is one of Japanese traaditional ingrtedients for Nimono(steamed food)

Hijiki is the name of a kind of seaweed.

For more details please see this page.

I don't think these kind of dishes are not popular in overseas.

How to cook is boil hijiki, sour prum and anything you like(fried tofu added in this case) with soy sauce and Japanese Dashi.

No one say "How delicious it is!" in Japan, but every Japanese knows it and recognize it as traditional foods of Japan.

Ramen

2007-07-07T05:05:00.000-07:00

Ramen

My mum cooked Ramen for tonight.

Just bought instant ramen that includes deepfried noodle and powder.

It is so simple. So we need to put vegetables and meat by ourselves. Not includede in the package of instant noodle.

So we usually put onion spring and sliced pork for instant ramen.

I ate it in overseas and some of them are delicious, but, noodles are not as good as Japanese one(soup is so delicious!).

I think you guys lives in Asia can easily find Korean "Shin noodles" in your country. I was used to eat it in the Philippines.

The noodle of Shin noodle is great. I want to eat it again :D

Nori(seaweed) snack

2007-07-05T05:24:00.000-07:00

Nori(seaweed) snack

This is snack that I like to take with beer :D

Japanese love drinking beer on summer. Not whole year.

This is on rainy season in Japan and will be over soon, and summer will come.

I like sausage to take with beer, but it's discussting for me to cook it :p

So I just open the package of this snack and eat.

Oh I should explain how does it taste!

Just like deepfried seaweed with coating(similar way to cook tempura) and dredge wasabi powder.

There are a lot of snack that has wasabi flavor in Japan, and we love it :P)

Bonito sashimi

2007-07-04T03:27:00.000-07:00

Bonito sashimi

Today, I introduce my FAVORITE sashimi on this post.

It is bonito.

Bonito is easy to go bad, so it's pretty hard to eat comletely fresh bonito sashimi in the city far from sea.

I live in Matsuyama city among Setouchi-sea and pacific ocean, so we can!

Usually, Sashimi is served with grean leaves and some garnish, but bonito sashimi is served with julienne or chopped garlic in my hometown.

It is important. If without garlic, bonito sashimi is not my favorite. Yellowtail or salmon sashimi would be my favorite.

Someday, when I go to Japanese traditional restaurant("Ryotei" or "Kappou"), I will introduce lobster sashimi :D

Pasta

2007-07-03T04:36:00.000-07:00

Pasta

As I wrote already, my mum often cook pasta because of ease of procedure :p

And I eat it as relish with whiskey.

Healthy and delicious. This pasta is .... I don't know the name.. :O

Tomato, okra, bacon,salt and pepper.

I want to visit Italy to eat pasta someday :D

Karaage

2007-07-02T06:01:00.000-07:00

Karaage

Karaage is Japanese style flied chicken.

One of most popular dish among beer lover and children :D

I think flied chicken is popular in most of coutries but how-to-cook depends on a place.

This is how Japanese style.

1, Cut chicken thigh(boneless).
2, Prepare coating. Mix flour, egg, salt and pepper,ground ginger and garlic, Japanese rice wine and baking soda.
3, Put chicken into coating and put it on a flidge for 1 hour.
4, Pick up them and dredge potato starch and flour.
5, Deepfly them!

It's simple. My mum cook it once in a week because we like it.

I like KFC's flied chicken drumstic but boneless Karaage is also delicious!

Yakisoba

2007-07-01T01:31:00.000-07:00

Yakisoba

This is Japanese fried noodle.

Just simple. Ingredients are egg noodle, cabbage, onion, sliced pork and sause.

Put pork first into the pan, and add all after pork is cooked.

I have already introduced Okonomiyaki, the sauce for Okonomiyaki and Yakisoba are same.

Seafood yakisoba is also popular in Japan. Put squid, shrimp, and scarop insted of pork.

But for me, Yakisoba package(A package includes soba and sauce.) is enough. We can also buy instant Yakisoba(Just pour hot water) in market.

Satsumaimo & Chikuwa tempura

2007-06-29T21:44:00.000-07:00

Satsumaimo & Chikuwa tempura

I ate it at dinner a couple of days ago.

What do you call the potato that has dark red skin in English?

It is called "Satsumaimo" in Japanese. Popular vegetable. "Satsuma" is the name of place that located in Kyushu island, Japan.

According to a dictionary I have, it may be "ocarina" but I thought it must be "sweet potato".

Isn't it right?

Anyway, most of vegetables are being cooked as tempura in Japan. But my favorite are pumpokins and these one Chikuwa tempura and Satsumaimo.

I have allready introduced a lot of vegetables on this blog, I will introduce about Chicken tempura later.

It is also one of my favorite tempura :D