Besides American fast foods like McDonald’s, you can find traditional Japanese fast foods all over Japan. Noodle dishes are very popular, like ramen, udon and soba noodles. My favorites are ramen with miso broth with meat and vegetables added and yakisoba, which is a stir-fried soba noodle with vegetables and meat. I’ve never tried the [...]
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Some of my favorite Japanese snacks include mochi, which is a pounded, glutinous rice cake. It can be prepared in many ways. I like the deep-fried, puffed mochi, or the mochi ice cream balls, which are small round servings of ice cream covered with a layer of mochi. My favorite flavors for the ice cream [...]
Like most traditional Japanese meals, the traditional Japanese lunch is made of some rice, miso soup, a vegetable and meat dish, another vegetable dish, some pickled vegetables and salad. Some Westerners complain that traditional Japanese meals are like eating dinner for every meal, but that doesn’t bother me. I eat leftovers for breakfast and lunch [...]
I was intrigued when I first saw sushi, but I was a little bit afraid to try it. Sushi is raw fish, right? Well, I have since learned that “sashimi” is raw fish, and sushi actually means “vinegar rice.” The first sushi I tried was a California roll, which is a fairly safe choice for [...]
The Japanese breakfast isn’t a whole lot different than their other two meals of the day. I like rice at almost any time of day, so that part suits me fine. I also like miso soup, which is another important part of a traditional Japanese breakfast. I’ve even made this simple breakfast a few times. [...]
I first discovered bento boxes when I was reading some of the manga magazines my kids leave around the house. The girls in the stories frequently tried to impress the boys they liked by making cute little lunches for them. After that, I looked them up online. Wow! I was amazed at how many different [...]
I always knew that rice was a big part of Japanese cuisine, but it was still a little surprising to learn just how much it is used. I used to watch Iron Chef and marvel at the many ways they used rice, and it made me more interested in finding out more about Japanese food [...]
On Friday the office went out to a Chinese Restaurant for lunch and a going away party for one of our co-workers. I decided to have some thing new off the menu so I went with Moo Goo Gai Pan with vegetables. I did not know what it was so I asked the waiter and he [...]
For lunch on a Friday in April I had Beef Teriyaki. This teriyaki was on a stick with fried rice on the side. The teriyaki was soft and tender to chew and it had such a good taste. Before I knew it I had eaten all the teritaki off my stick.
I placed a order to [...]
A coworker of mine, Pamela, had a dinner party recently and the theme was Asian Cuisines (how appropriate). She served many tasty dishes and the one I’ll be discussing first is Miso Soup.
I never tried Miso Soup but always wanted to. How lucky was I to finally get a chance to try it at the [...]