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A white bowl of egg drop soup with spring onions, enoki and tomatoes on a dark plate. Green chopsticks lie beside it on a textured surface.

Miso Soup with Egg Tomato and Enoki

This is quite a modern recipe in Japan - I came across it on my last trip back home earlier this year.

Japanese Soups and Stocks

Plate of golden-brown gyoza dumplings with cilantro on a blue floral dish. Beside it, a small white bowl of orange dipping sauce.

Shallow fried Chicken Gyoza

Gyoza are also very popular in Japan although it might surprise you to learn that in Japan.

Japanese Chicken dishes

Shredded carrot salad with raisins, walnuts, and chives on a clear plate. Yellow rose in the blue checkered background.

Carrot and Celery Salad with Orange Rice Vinegar dressing

This salad features some everyday fruits and vegetables - carrot, celery, raisins and some walnuts. The dressing combines freshly squeezed orange juice and rice vinegar along with some extra virgin olive oil.

Japanese salads

Blue-patterned bowl of egg drop udon noodles garnished with green sprouts on a dark surface. Chopsticks are beside the bowl.

Udon Noodles with Fluffy Eggs AKA Kakitama Udon

This Udon Noodles with Fluffy Eggs recipe is known as Kakitama Udon in Japan as which translated literally "stirred egg udon."

Japanese Winter Dishes

A black plate of stir-fried udon noodles with meat, red peppers, cabbage, and carrots on a patterned table mat. Bright and appetizing colors.

Miso Yaki Udon

It's a very simple stir fry udon noodle dish that's easy to create and very quick to prepare.

Japanese light meals

A bowl of clear Japanese vegan dashi broth on a wooden board, surrounded by dried mushrooms and pieces of dark seaweed, creating a calming mood.

No Cook Vegan Dashi

A good umami-rich dashi is one of the foundations of Japanese cuisine as you probably know.

Vegan dishes

Sliced raw beef, tofu, mushrooms, onion, leek and Chinese cabbages for Sukiyaki. The vibrant colors contrast against the dark background.

Meat and the Japanese

Meat and the Japanese.

Restaurant Review and Culture

Pumpkin gyoza, fried dumplings on a white plate with a small cup of yellow sauce. Patterned blue and red tablecloth in the background.

Pumpkin Gyoza with Mango dip

Pumpkin Gyoza with Mango dip With Halloween just around the corner, here's a pumpkin recipe that you can prepare in advance and serve on the day at your Halloween party. Now, you might be thinking - aren't gyoza savoury? Mango dip...really? Don't you gyoza serve with a mix of soy sauce and a little vinegar? And you would be right....or, you'd me right most of the time . But I invite you to think a little bit laterally and think about what a gyoza is exactly. Basically, it's

Celebration and Party dishes

Japanese Curry soup

What goes into a Japanese Curry soup?

Japanese Curry dishes

Tukune, Chicken meatballs glazed with sauce, garnished with green onions, skewered on metal sticks, served on a floral plate against a dark background.

Tsukune Japanese meatballs

Tsukune Japanese meatballs Take a look at the menu in any Japanese yakitori restaurant and you will be bound to see "Tsukune" on sale....

Japanese Chicken 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

Okonomiyaki with Cheddar Cheese

Okonomiyaki with Cheddar Cheese If you read my blog, you'll know that my family are okonomiyaki fans. We're also cheese fans, so I thought, why not combine okonomiyaki and cheese? Now I'll admit that cheese isn't the first thing you might think of when you think of Japanese food but I find it makes a great ingredient in a lot of Japanese dishes and that's certainly the case when you add it to an okonomiyaki. Adding 80 - 100g of good cheddar cheese enriches the flavour and pro

Japanese light meals