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Japanese Cream Stew is easy to make - no need to make a separate bechamel sauce - and it's quite quick.

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

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

One of the most popular sandwiches you can buy (no surprise perhaps) is Japanese egg mayo sando. Try out this Japanese Egg Mayo Rolls sando

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

The kaki (persimmon) ranks as one of my favourite fruits - it's soft, very sweet and has a beautiful mellow orange colour.

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

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

Yaki Onigiri in Ochazuke reads as pan fried rice balls (the yaki onigiri bit) in a Japanese clear soup (the ochazuke bit).

I am a big fan of Vietnamese food - I love the lightness of the dishes and the subtle sweet and sour aromas of the food.

Here is a delicious dish for a chilly day - Salmon and Turnip Gratin.

Japanese spaghetti napolitan or Japanese Ketchup Pasta.

I like to think that if the Earl of Sandwich was alive and kicking today, he would rank the Japanese "sando" (that's the way the Japanese say "sandwich") up there with the best variations on his original idea.

My latest Japanese restaurant review took me to pastures new - Finsbury Park in London N4 to be exact.

Here's my take on a healthy Thai Tofu & Beanthread noodle salad.

Chinese style stir fried Spicy King Prawns Along with tempura, IMO this dish is one of the best ways to eat king prawns - I've eaten this in Chinese restaurants in Japan since I was a child, so I guess it's ingrained as a Kurumi family favourite . Preparation is pretty minimal - a little marinading, some sauce and some frying - no more than 15 minutes from start to finish. I should point out that I used prepared king prawns in this recipe. If you buy unprepared prawns, the d

Chicken Sukiyaki Donburi.

Japanese Restaurant review

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

Vegetable Gyoza I am sure I am not alone in being very, very partial to Gyoza. (AKA Chinese dumplings, AKA Potstickers.) I probably eat gyoza at least once a fortnight and if I am in the mood to be nice and offer my family a choice of evening meal, gyoza are usually somewhere near the top of the list when the hands go up. If you've read any of my restaurant reviews, you'll also know that I regard gyoza as one of my "acid tests" for restaurant quality. I have to admit that I f