Osechi

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 :)

Raw liver(liver sashimi)

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

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...

Simple Pasta

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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