Omelet rice is a food which fried rice with chicken and tomato ketchup is wrapped by omelet. It is a kind of yoshoku, one category of Japanese foods. However yoshoku’s roots is Europe or American foods, they are developed in Japan as original Japanese foods. Omelet rice is very popular home food and also served […]
European foods are popular in Japan. I think Italian is most popular because there are many casual Italian restaurants, therefore we are familiar with it very well. We cook Italian such as pasta foods at home and also sometimes arrange it as Japanese style. Of course, there are some very expensive (high class) Italian restaurants. […]
I used yam to cook “okonomiyaki” last time, and still it remained. After consideration what I would cook…, I cooked “Isobeage” at this time. It is called isobeage that foods wrapped with seaweed and fried. “Isobe” means beach. Seaweed are there, so I think this style cooking called the name which has “isobe.” However tempura […]
Ohagi or Botamochi is a same food. Botamochi is served in spring, on the other hand, Ohagi is served in autumn. They are named after flower “Botan (peony)” and “Hagi (bush clover).” Today, it is March 20th when the day is middle of equinoctial week (Ohigan). We have ohigan week in spring and autumn every […]
Japanese chicken BBQ is called as “Yakitori.” If you have come to Japan, many of you had enjoyed it at “izakaya” restaurants where serving alcohol and foods (mostly Japanese foods). It is very popular foods and most restaurants serving it is not expensive. (But some “yakitori” restaurants are expensive.) Normally you can choose two different […]
When I eat something first time and feel it’s very delicious, I cannot forget that experience even it was in a child. Do you have similar experience? Spanish mackerel is one of my favorite fish. It is called as “Sawara” in Japanese. The kanji of sawara contains two characters “fish” and “spring.” Now spring is […]
Japan is surrounded by the sea, so we can enjoy various sea foods. Prawn or shrimp is a popular sea food and is used in many kind of foods like ebi fry (deep fried prwan), tempura, sushi, chawanmushi (Japanese egg custard) etc. The food of above photo is very simple one. It is grilled with […]
What is the food which you feel spring? When rape blossom (nano hana) foods come onto the table, I feel spring has come. Its season is February and March. It tastes a little bitter. So I don’t like it very well when I was a child. But now, I want to eat it if I […]
