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 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...
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.
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 :)
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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 :)
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!
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!
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
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?
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
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
