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
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!!
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
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
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 ...
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 :)
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
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 :(
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
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
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 :(
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
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!!
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
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!
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
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
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!
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!
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!
