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My blog has over 30 categories featuring Japanese home cooking recipes as well as Chinese, Thai, Korean and fusion dishes. There's something for everybody! Click the More tab below to see what you can find.

Bacon wrapped Enoki mushrooms

It's a dish that in Japan is made with very thinly sliced pork and is called Enoki no Niku Maki - Meat Wrapped Enoki.

Japanese Pork dishes

Stir-fried pork with cabbage and green bell peppers on a decorative red and white plate with floral patterns. Rich and appetizing.

Japanese style Hoi Ko Ro Pork and Cabbage Stir Fry

Japanese style Hoi Ko Ro Pork &and Cabbage Stir Fry recipe blog.

Chinese Style dishes

Bowl of stir-fried beef with green peppers, onions, and eggplant / aubergine on rice. Set on red patterned cloth with chopsticks beside it.

Stir fried Miso Pork and Aubergine Donburi

Japanese donburi of stir fried pork and aubergine / eggplant flavoured with a rich, umami-full miso sauce.

Japanese One Bowl Meals

Nikujaga with pork, carrots, potatoes, onions, and snap peas on a blue-patterned plate. Setting has a patterned fabric background.

Japanese Pork and Potato Stew AKA Nikujaga

Japanese Pork and Potato Stew called Nikujaga in Japanese recipe blog.

Japanese Pork dishes

Japanese pork ginger with onions called Shogayaki, white rice, and green salad on a white plate. Dish on a patterned tablecloth.

Japanese Pork Ginger - Shogayaki

Japanese Pork Ginger - Shogayaki as it is called in Japanese - is made in just about every home in Japan and there are some good reasons for that - it's easy to make, it's quick and everyone seems to love it.

Japanese Pork dishes

Stir-fried eggplant and leeks on a white plate with blue floral pattern. Wooden chopsticks and a striped napkin in the background.

Ma Po's Aubergine

Easy to make Ma Po's Aubergine recipe blog.

Chinese Style dishes

Japanese Tonkatsu or fried cutlet with sauce, served on a white plate with shredded lettuce and sliced tomatoes. Bright, appetizing presentation.

Can you resist a Tonkatsu?

Tonkatsu must be Japan's most popular meat dish.

Japanese Pork dishes

Dumplings on a blue plate, one lifted with chopsticks, dipped in soy sauce. Dumplings are golden brown, creating a delicious scene.

Perfect Gyoza

Gyoza or Potstickers or Dumpling.

Japanese Pork dishes

Miso marinated Pork loins

Miso marinated Pork loins If you like pork, chances are that the pork loin will be one of your favourite cuts. The meat is one of the...

Japanese Pork dishes

Bento box with sushi, sashimi, cooked meat on rice, edamame, and bean sprouts. Orange and green accents. Soy sauce and wasabi included.

6 Japanese restaurants in London - a review

This is a review of 6 Japanese restaurants in London's West End in 2019. All my restaurant reviews are unsponsored.

Restaurant Review and Culture

Okonomiyaki Japanese savoury pancake with cabbage carrot spring onion and ginger topped with bacon kewpie mayonnaise okonomiyaki sauce and katsuobushi by kurumicooks delicious easy to make healthy Japanese cooking for your kitichen

Okonomiyaki..Japanese savoury pancake with bacon

Okonomiyaki with Bacon. I make lots of different okonomiyaki, some just with veg, some with meat as well as some "fusion-yaki" like one with a cheddar cheese filling

Japanese light meals

Bowl of mapo tofu with tofu cubes, minced meat, and green onions in a patterned bowl, set against a dark background. Warm, appetizing.

Ma Po's Tofu

Ma Po's Tofu is a Sichuan dish which in its traditional form is quite oil and very spicy.

Chinese Style dishes

Japanese pork meat balls Niku Dango served in a sweet soy sauce with chopped spring onion on a Japanese fired clay dish by kurumicooks delicious easy to make healthy Japanese Asian and Fusion food and cooking for your kitchen.

Japanese meat balls - Niku Dango

Japanese meat balls - Niku Dango Here's a recipe which sounds better in Japanese, "niku dango", than in English - plain old meat balls! But Japanese meat balls - Niku Dango are actually far from plain - they're made of minced pork cooked in a sweet soy sauce. They'll grace any dinner table or you can just pop them in a lunch box for a nourishing midday meal. Alternatively, you can also put these on skewers & cook them over the barbecue. I've truly never come across anyone w

Japanese Pork dishes

Menchi Katsu

Menchi katsu is another example of a Western style dish assimilated into Japanese food culture at the turn of the 20th century.

Katsu dishes

Japanese Tonjiru

Ton Jiru.

Japanese Pork dishes

Japanese stuffed rolled cabbage leaves with pork and onion cooked in a bouillon stock by kurumicooks delicious easy to mae healthy Japanese Asian and Fusion food for your kitchen

Japanese Pork stuffed rolled Cabbage

Stuffed rolled cabbage leaves probably aren't the first thing that come to mind when you think about Japanese food

Japanese Pork dishes

Crispy fried pork Katsu on lettuce in a bowl, garnished with green herbs, lemon wedges, and sauce, set against a dark background.

Pork Sauce Katsudon

Basically that means a Tonkatsu fillet served on a bed of rice and soft cabbage and given a good slathering of Bulldog brown sauce.

Katsu dishes

A white plate with fresh green lettuce leaves and a bowl of minced meat, next to a spoon, on a dark surface.

Miso minced Pork in lettuce leaf wraps

Miso minced Pork in lettuce leaf wraps I love sharing platters of food with family & friends, don't you? I don't know what it is but there's something communal about eating with your hands that seems to bring people together. So, to me, these Miso minced Pork and Lettuce wraps are a kind of finger food heaven. You might think that the Japanese eat everything with chopsticks but we eat with our hands as well. If you want to, you can always eat sushi with your fingers! Miso

Chinese Style dishes