‘2- Food’ Archives
SOBA, Japanese Soba Noodle
SOBA or Japanese Soba Noodle is a really traditional food of Japan. I don't know when Soba noodle's history began in Japan but it's fact that Soba is probably the food with the longest history among Japanese food. Soba is a very delicate food. Soba noodle is made of Soba Powder and Water, sometimes flour is added to make it adhesive. Soba [...]
Tendon & Tempura
Tendon is my favourite food. Maybe Tendon or Tempura is in the top 3 popular food for foreigners too among Japanese foods. Tendon means Tempura and rice dish. Don means a bowl in Japanese, so the meaning of Tendon is translated such. For detail of meaning of DON, please check Katsudon explanation. Tendon's Ten means Tempura's Tem [...]
KATSUDON
KATSUDON is a very popular food anywhere in Japan. Also the cooking style is not different much although many common food of Japan often have different ways of cooking locally in each area. Katsu means cutlet, probably the imported English pronunciationbecame Japanized in pronunciation, which settled in Katsu, I think. When cutlet [...]
TAKOYAKI
TAKOYAKI is especially popular in western part of Japan, recently it's widely found anywhere in Japan though. TOKOYAKI is similar to OKONOMIYAKI but the biggest difference is the shape and the contents. TAKOYAKI's tako means octopus, and yaki means grill or fry in Japanese. [...]
YAKITORI, Grilled Chicken of Japan
Chicken dish are found anywhere in the world. They are also in various way of cooking. In Japan there are some chicken cooking ways, YOKITORI is probably the most popular style of Chicken cooking in Japan. Yakitori is cooked with sumibi grill or Charcoal grill, and while grilling, chicken is dipped into Teriyakisauce or seasoned with slight [...]
Beef Tongue
I once took a friend from Hawaii to a Beef Tongue restaurant in Sendai city. That was a very famous and long history restaurant in Sendai, it's not a strange thing if a foreigner is surprised at the good taste and soon love it. As I expected, he soon started to admire the delicious meat and soup. We ate them in 10 minutes or so, and we [...]
Unaju – Eel Bowl
Some might know that eel is a very popular food in Japan. Especially in the summer time annually, we have custom to eat eel on the regular day, Doyo-Ushinohi. Eel cooking is really simple. We just grill it with sweet Teriyaki sauce as you see photo. And the cooked eel is put on the rice bowl or rice box, which is called Unaju ( rice box [...]
KOBOSHI / BANNAI ramen in Tokyo
RAMEN is becoming famous. It's original is China. Japan arranged the Chinese taste and completed Japanese style noodle called Ramen. Now Ramen is one of the most popular foods in Japan. The price is low and the taste is good, which means it's for all the public in Japan. Ramen already became the local food in each area of Japan. So if [...]
FUKUYOSHI- Eric Clapton’s best Tonkatsu restaurant
Do you know Eric Clapton's best favourite restaurant in the world is in Tokyo ? It's true. He often says that he loves Fukuyoshi's Tonkatsu best in the world. Exactly speaking, Eric Clapton seems to love Chicken Katsu rather than Tonkatsu ( Pork Katsu). Anyway, Clapton never misses coming back to this restaurant whenever he comes to [...]
Keika Ramen ( keika noodle)
Kumamoto ken or Kumamoto Prefecture is situated in Kyushu district, the southern island of Japan. In Kumamoto ken, there is a famous Ramen noodle style. Keika Ramen is from Kumamoto and it's very popular in Tokyo. Some who are from Kumamoto say this ramen is not exactly what they [...]
