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.

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

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 :(

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.

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.

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.

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

Delux Ramen

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

Yakisoba

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 :)

Mentaiko Pasta

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!

Instant pasta

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.

Bazil Pasta

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

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

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

Udon

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!

Ramen

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

Yakisoba with soup

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!

Soumen

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

Ramen

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

Instant noodles

Instant noodle

These days, valious instant noodles are sold in every mall and convenience store in Japan.

Therefore, food suplier have to keep making effort to improve taste of them to last in the industry.

1 out of 10 will last, 9 out of 10 will can't.

I was used to eat instant noodle before I move to the Philippines, and I knew very well about them. But 2 years later, when I came back to Japan, most of instant noodles are new for me.

Today, I introduce how Japanese eats instant noodles.

I bought it in a convenience store at 200 yen(1.5 USD)

Open the cap and you can see a couple of plastic bags of seasoning.

Follow the instruction displayed on the cap or bowl, dredge seasoning onto noodles(how-to-cook depends on the instant noodles you bought).

Waiting..... I prepared seaweed,sesami seeds, and chili pepper from cabinet.

Done! I added seaweed, sesami seeds and chilipepper.

I think this one is delicious, but it will be disappear from market place soon(again, 90 % of instant noodles cant last).



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