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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 cowoker of mine brought some egg rolls to work for a office get together. Man those egg rolls sure were delicious. He said they were made from scratch from a old family recipe that dated back three generations. He cooked two kinds of egg rolls one was vegetable the other had some kind of [...]