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

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

This Salmon parcel is a fusion cooking idea that I've used during the Christmas period as a starter for dinner with some success.

This blog item shows you how to make a batch of easy, quickly prepared Oven baked Spring Rolls.

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

Here is a recipe for people like both Japanese curry and Omu Rice. Its called Chicken Omu Curry.

Fish Finger Musubi Here's my latest easy fusion creation. Fish Finger Musubi. I think I can safely claim to this dish being a Kurumicooks original - I haven't seen it anywhere else and it was just one of those serendipitious occasions when I found some fish fingers in the back of the freezer and wonder what to do with them for a quick lunch - eh, viola! The Fish Finger Musubi was born! If you know your Japanese, you'll know that a "musubi" translates as a "rice ball". Musubi

Tasty and easy steak donburi rice bowl recipe.

Simple and easy Daikon SaladRecipe.

Our review Sanjugo Japanese restaurant in London, N1.

SPAM Musubi SPAM ...hmmm... it conjures up all sorts of reactions, doesn't it? In the UK, SPAM or "luncheon meat" as it also used to be called, was a mainstay of every lunchbox. Then, along came Monty Python with their SPAM comedy sketch and it became a bit of a joke to ask for SPAM to eat. Over on the other side of the world, people think of SPAM in a very different way. In South Korea, people love SPAM and serve it up in lots of different ways - in fact, one of Korea's nat

Cod with a Wasabi Soy Olive Oil dressing I am a big fan of cod. It's known in Japan as tara although it doesn't possess the symbolic status in there that it has in the UK. Cod is quite bland taste-wise which means it happily absorbs just about any flavour you wish to add to it. Mixing some wasabi, soy sauce and a quality olive oil brand with some soy sauce provides a punch, almost piquante, flavour to cod which I just love. I think you might just like it. too! When I make

This is the one of Japanese curry recipe and I used meatball using Golden curry cubes.

A restaurant review.

Non alcohol Christmas Kanten Jelly.

Sweet spring rolls for Christmas You don't need me to remind you that Christmas is fast approaching. Last year, for the first time I can remember, there were no parties, no dinner guests - just lockdown. Let's hope this year more than makes up for that! I thought I would re-post a couple of my Christmas fusion dishes for you to experiment with now that you will be doing some seasonal entertaining again. So, this weekend's recipe is my sweet mincemeat spring rolls. Yes, a sw

Tonkatsu must be Japan's most popular meat dish.

Soy Butter Vegetable stir fry 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 my childhood in the 1960s, butter was regarded as something of an out of reach luxury. Like many Western things, butter (known as " bata " in Japanese) began to be assimilated into Japanese cooking during the post-war years of the US military occupation. At that time, butter was still so rare in Japanese food cul

Here's a winter salmon miso hotpot or Ishikari nabe in Japanese recipe from Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido.

Bang bang chicken is a very popular Chinese dish in Japan.