Japanese Kewpie Mayonnaise
If you have never heard of Kewpie mayonnaise, it is the brand name for Japanese mayonnaise by Ajinomoto. As you might imagine, there is a cute …
Natto and How To Eat It
Natto is a fermented soybean, and it is traditional and staple of Japanese food. Compared to tempeh which is another fermented soybean …
Tonkatsu sauce
Tonkatsu sauce is Japanese sauce that used for tonkatsu which is Japanese style fried breaded pork cutlets and for other fried foods mainly. The …
Soy Marinated Horseradish
The first time I ate fresh horseradish was in the spring of the year I started living in Hokkaido, northernmost prefecture because it only grows in …
Zakkoku Mai 2
I have introduced zakkoku mai a while ago in this blog so please check the post if you don’t know what it is. Basically zakkoku means all …
Zakkoku Mai
Zakkoku means whole grains, and mai means rice in Japanese. In Japan, people really love to eat white rice, and it is a very important part of our …
Grilled Abura-age
Abura-age (aburage, age) is a thinly sliced and deep fried tofu not confused with Atsu-age which is a deep fried whole tofu. When a thinly …
Kinako: Roasted Soy Bean Powder
Kinako is roasted soy bean powder (or roasted soy bean flour) that used in Japanese traditional dessert often. When you dry roast soy bean, it gives …
Kona Dashi
I have already explained how important and essential dashi is to Japanese cooking in a previous blog post. The Quality of the one’s dashi will …
My Everyday Dashi
In my previous post, I explained everything about Japanese stock, dashi. So now in this post I am going to talk about how I normally prepare my dashi. …
Story about dashi, Japanese stock
The general meaning of dashi is stock with “umami” or savory taste. Japanese use the word dashi not only for Japanese dashi but also any kind of tasty …