I don't know if you're well acquainted with wasabi rocket. If you are, maybe like me, you are a recent convert. Earlier this year, I was...

Poke dishes are on a roll at the moment, aren't they? Unlike pokémon, poke bowls didn't originate in Japan but from Hawaii, where...

i posted a recipe for Chinese style chicken chukadon earlier in the year and as it was well received, I thought I'd create another...

You might remember I posted a Japanese style poke bowl recipe a little time back. Here is what I would call a close cousin to the poke...

This is a Japanese version of a Chinese dish that goes by the name of "Lion's head" meat balls. Apparently, the meat balls wreathed in...

The daikon (AKA white radish or mooli) is a much beloved vegetable in Japan - you'll find it featured in many classic Japanese woodblock...

Chocolate desserts probably wouldn't be high on your list if you were asked to name Japanese foods but the Japanese actually consume more...

It seems difficult to believe now, but time was when butter was almost unknown in Japan. I admit I'm going back a few years but even in...

What could be better suited to the fruity taste of a Japanese curry than the coconut rich flavours of Goan cuisine? I started putting...

Baking food in salt (often but not exclusively fish) has a long history in Japan. Apparently, it goes back several hundred years to the...

Now that the days are growing shorter and the nights a little chilly, my thoughts turn to warming autumn drinks and there's nothing...

Have you ever seen the very entertaining "Paul Hollywood in Japan" series? Yes, that Paul Hollywood , the celebrity chef and baker. He...

So what exactly is a Hamburg steak? I hear you ask. The answer is very simple. Take away the bun from a hamburger and you're left...

Poke bowl dishes are a bit of a think these days, aren't they? As I've said before on my blog, the origins of the poke bowl are a lot...

One of the wonderful foods I have discovered since i came to live in the UK is (somewhat ironically) Thai green curry. From time to...

Here's a recipe from my good friend Yumiko Nikaido who lives in Tokyo. The dish is called chicken nanbanzuke. The word "nanbanzuke"...

Here's a winter fish hotpot (or nabe in Japanese) recipe from Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido. This is a traditional Japanese...

If ever there was the perfect warming dish for chilly nights, this is it - chicken katsudon. I'm sure you know about katsu, which is the...

When I first came to England (nearly thirty years ago, OMG!), soya milk was something you found in health food shops and just about...

Do you believe in serendipity? I know it doesn't happen very often, but I believe that sometimes, things do just fall into place. I was...