‘2- Food’ Archives
YAMANASHI WINE of Japan
Japanese wine is not famous in the world. I must confess that we don't choose Japanese wine often for our dinner or parties either in Japan. Maybe we Japanese believe without any proof that foreign wine is better than Japanese ones because Japanese wines have shorter history in the production and we aren't familier to them in spite that we can [...]
Ready to eat Curry dish
In Japan, there are many curry dish fans. The curry was imported from India and it had been arranged into Japanese style while the process of the long food history in Japan. Japanese curry is very popular in Japan, maybe it's among the top 5 popular foods in Japan. The price is not that high and the cooking is easy, so people cook it at [...]
Beer of Japan
I traveled many countries. If I needed to choose best beer in the world, probably I will choose Coors or Budwiser without hesitation because I feel refreshed when having them. It's based on my experience to choose them. I stayed in Hawaii or California for a long time in my life and especially under the wonderful sunlight, there beers are [...]
Japanese Wine, Sake, is lovely in winter time
Recently Japanese wine called Sake is getting a little popular among Japanese food fans. The tast of Sake is not like Whisky or French wine, but it's really good for Japanese traditional foods like Sushi, Sashimi, or Oden although Beer or Whiskey also match well with Japanese foods. If you first try Japanese Sake, winter time is a good season [...]
ODEN in the Winter time of Japan
Oden is a very popular food in Japan. There are some good Oden restaurants in large cities, but also it's popular as house cooking food in Japan. Cooking Oden is not that hard. Most of the stuff are sold at super markets. We can add our favourite stuff by our choice, for example, some like boiled eggs, Daikon, Octpus, Squid, but most standard [...]
Japanese Food Overseas
Today I had Ramen at a Japanese restaurant in Christchurch, New Zealand. That restaurant was very small in spite of the location in the city, but the taste was good. Today I went there after a long time travel, so I expected the same. But what I saw was totally different exterior of the restaurant, it became a large size restaurant. Maybe [...]
KOBE BEEF of JAPAN
Kobe Beef is a name of food stuff. The meat taken from cows of Kobe city is called KOBE BEEF. It's not a name of a dish. If we say Yakitori or beef stew, they mean the dish cooked by chef. Yakitori is a grilled Kebab Chicken and beef stew needs no explanation. Why do I have to comment about the meat ? Not for the dish ? It's because I [...]
World No.1 Gourmet City, TOKYO by Michelin Tokyo 2010
Michelin Japan today held a press conference in Tokyo about the Michelin Guide of Tokyo 2010. according the the news, Tokyo again stayed on the NO.1 status of the world Gourmet Cities judging from the 3 star restaurant number ( 11 restaurants ) and the total star numbers of restaurants shown in the guidebook. It's not fair to decide the NO.1 [...]
Will Tuna Sushi disappear ??
When we were very young, we didn't want to eat Tuna Sushi not because we didn't like it but because we had it so many times. Now Tuna Sushi or Tuna is too expensive and we don't eat it so often. More than 30 years ago, my mother often bought Tuna sashimi for our dinner. I would think " no more tuna, please ! Next time, sashimi or Sushi [...]
GYOZA – Japanese type fried dumpling
Chinese dumpling is world famous food. In Japan, there is a Japanese type dumpling. It must be imported from China at some stage of the history, and the Chinese dumpling was arranged into Japanese style as many of the imported food in Japan. Japanese style dumpling is a fried food, although Chinese original is steamed or boiled. Also the [...]
