Archive for the category Food

Tuna head

Por kirai el 07 de January de 2009 en Food

He other day I ate a tuna head in Misakiguchi. It was a restaurant specialized in cooking only tuna heads. It was delicious. But we were six people and we couldn’t finish even one head!

After dinner, this is what we left over.

And he is the chef. It seems he is one of the best tuna [...]

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Shiitake

Por kirai el 17 de December de 2008 en Food

“Shiitake” is an edible mushroom very common in Asia. It is one of those things I always buy when I go to the supermarket, it’s yummy and you can put it together with almost whatever: pasta with shiitake, soup with shiitake, asparagus with shiitake, whatever with shiitake :). Shiitake has tons of vitamin D, and [...]

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Tuna cheese

Por kirai el 08 de December de 2008 en Food

That’s cheese flavored with tuna. Do you want to try?

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Taco rice

Por kirai el 27 de October de 2008 en Food

“Taco rice” is one of my favorite Japanese food. It is a typical recipe from Okinawa. The main ingredients are white rice, lettuce, tomato and meet with taco sauce. Depending on the restaurant, it can also have cheese, egg, avocado, extra sauces and cucumber. My favorite version is the one with cheese and avocado.
“Taco rice” [...]

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Rice bills

Por kirai el 08 de October de 2008 en Food

I got these okome-ken (お米券). With each of them I can buy 1Kg of rice in almost any supermarket-shop in Japan. I guess it is a legacy from the war when rice supplies were really scarce. I think I have almost for 10Kg of rice

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Chocolate sushi

Por kirai el 26 de September de 2008 en Food

This company is specialized in creating sweets that look like sushi using only chocolate and rice. From the pictures it looks like real sushi!

Found at Xorsyst.

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Real or fake?

Por kirai el 14 de December de 2007 en Food

It’s fake sushi. Japanese restaurants usually show food replicas in their entrance. It’s pretty useful, because you know what you are going to eat, or at least you know how it looks like. It’s not the same in China, where every restaurant is a surprise.
Iwasaki-bei is considered the best company in the world making fake [...]

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Gyoza - 餃子

Por kirai el 11 de December de 2007 en Food

“Gyoza” is one of my favorite Japanese/Asian food. And I say “Asian” because this food comes from China where Gyoza is called “Jiaozi”.
Gyoza/Jiaozi typically consist of a ground meat and/or vegetable filling wrapped into a thinly rolled piece of dough, which is then sealed by pressing the edges together or by crimping. - Wikipedia
The Chinese [...]

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Tokyo Michelin

Por kirai el 03 de December de 2007 en Food

Everywhere in the world knows that Tokyo made a record of Michelin stars but here in Japan is not so “big news”, people doesn’t really know what the Michelin Guide is. Furthermore, it is not surprising for them, they already “know” their food is the best.
I just watched a TV show where they were talking [...]

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Teriyaki hamburger

Por kirai el 24 de November de 2007 en Food

At Japan’s McDonalds there is a hamburger that is not offered in other countries, it’s the “teriyaki” hamburger. It was not an original McDonalds idea, it was invented by Mos Burguer more than thirty years ago when they tried mixing hamburger meat and “teriyaki” sauce. The “teriyaki” sauce is generally made with soy sauce, sake [...]

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