Food
“Nabe” or “Nabemono” refers to a style of Japanese cooking that is prepared in some kind of big Japanese pot. It can be prepared in many different ways and depending on the region of the country different ingredients are used. The easiest way to prepare nabe is using water with miso, soy sauce and dashi [...]
Goma Tsukemen (ごまつけ麺) is an Hiroshima typical summer dish. Goma means “sesame” and tsukemen means “dipping ramen”. The most common way to serve it consists of a bowl with unground sesame. Before starting to eat you have to grind the sesame and put it in the bowl along with the soup that will soak the [...]
Konnyaku is a plant that grows forming some kind of long cone, its interior is eaten in different ways in almost every Asian country. Its flavor is nothing special, the interesting thing about konnyaku is its gelatinous texture, which makes it a good choice to go along with almost any food. In Japan it’s usually [...]
A small ice cream shop in Nagano has come up with the idea of using grasshoppers (inago) as a topping for ice cream. For just 50 extra yen you can have grasshoppers on you ice cream!! This other ice cream has silkworms! Photos from Asahi.com. Related posts: Eating grasshoppers – Inago Inago
Shiinaneko-san has found an original way of using your iPad to improve your eating experience. iDish is the name of the revolutionary application. Somebody dares to make the same but with dishes from their country?
474,048 is the number of restaurants and cafeterias in Japan. It is the country in the world with the highest density of restaurants/cafeterias in the world with one restaurant for each 266 people. The second place is for United States with 566,020 and a density of one restaurant for each 547 people. Notice that in [...]
Onigiri (お握り – おにぎり) are rice balls filled with different ingredients, although in shortage time (at the end of the war) they were simple rice balls without anything else. Usually they are filled with tuna, salmon, some vegetable, ume (fermented plum), fish eggs, etc. The other day I found a new kind of onigiri being [...]
