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Blue awning of "Abeno Japanese Restaurant" with text "EST. 1992". Beige building, outdoor benches, flowers, and displayed menu. Bright setting.

Abeno Japanese Okonomiyaki restaurant, London WC1 -- a review

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Restaurant Review and Culture

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

Yellow storefront of Taro Japanese Restaurant with illustrated face, chairs, tables outside, and contact number displayed on the sign.

Taro Japanese restaurant in London N3 --a review

This is a review of Taro Japanese restaurant in Finchley, North ondon in July 2021. All my restaurant reviews are unsponsored.

Restaurant Review and Culture

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

Sliced Korean pancake with green onions on a white plate, accompanied by a bowl of soy sauce with sesame seeds, set on a dark surface.

Korean savoury pancake - Pajeon

Korean savoury pancake - Pajeon My latest recipe is korea's favourite pancake - the pajeon (pa = spring onion, jeon = pancake.) At its...

Korean Style dishes

Tofu katsu + Japanese curry = Food Heaven

This Tofu Katsu Curry combines healthy tofu and popular curry.

Japanese Curry dishes

Pumpkin kabocha squash, aubergine, carrot, shiso oba green perilla tempura by kurumicooks easy tasty healthy Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking and food for your kitchen

Vegetable Tempura

Delicious vegetable tempura.

Tempura dishes

Sukiyaki table top cooking with wagyi beef, shiitak mushroom, firm cotton tofu, leeks, onions and cabbage by kurumicooks delicious easy to make healthy Japanese Asian and Fusion food for your kitchen

Sukiyaki - Kanto style

This is Kanto style Sukiyaki.

Japanese Winter Dishes

Okonomiyaki with Chicken

My family are big fans of Japanese savoury pancakes (AKA Okonomiyaki) so it's a regular on our table at lunch and dinner.

Japanese light meals

A plate of fried rice with peas, carrots, and chicken, garnished with a metal spoon. The dish is vibrant and appears appetizing.

Japanese style Chahan with Chicken

Japanese style Chahan with Chicken which is fried rice.

Chinese Style dishes

Japanese aubergine nasu katsu in a panko breadcrumb crust drixxled with Bulldog braown sauce and served with salad leaves and a wedge of lemon by kurumicooks delicious easy to make healthy Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking for your kitchen

Aubergine Katsu

Try this recipe- the breadcrumbs and the seasoning in this recipe lift the Aubergine (Eggplant) Katsu to another level

Vegan 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

Oven baked Japanese chicken karaage nuggets served with asparagus and lemon by kurumicooks tasty easy healthy Japanese food and cooking for your kitchen

Oven baked Karaage Chicken Nuggets

Japanese Chicken Nuggets is called Karaage in Japanese. This is an oven method to cook Karaage.

Japanese Chicken dishes

Japanese spaghetti napolitan with frankfurter ketchup and pecorino cheese by kurumicooks easy healthy delicious Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking for your kitchen

Japanese style Spaghetti Napolitan

This is Japanese style Spaghetti Napolitan blog.

Japanese Fusion dishes

Tendon tempura donburi with prawns red pepper broccoli mushroom and parsnip fried in a tempura flour batter presented in a black laquered Yamamoto Kansai serving bowl by kurumicooks healthy easy to make delicious Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking for your kitchen

Tendon with Prawns

The Japanese have a love of abbreviations and so it is with this dish - "tendon" is the short form of "tempura donburi",

Tempura dishes

A bowl of bibimbap with a fried egg on top, surrounded by mixed vegetables and ground meat, against a dark background.

South Korea's #1 Hit Dish Bibimbap

Bibimbap Have you ever heard of KPop? It's South Korea's own brand of boy band & girl band pop music and over the last decade it has...

Korean Style dishes

A vibrant seafood stir-fry with rice, featuring shrimp, squid, bell peppers, and baby corn, served on a blue-patterned plate.

Chinese style Seafood Chukadon

Chinese style Seafood Chukadon I posted a recipe for Chinese style chicken chukadon earlier in the year and as it was well received, I...

Chinese Style dishes

Miso Salmon Poke bowl with miso fried salmon seafood sticks edamame and yellow bell peppers, sesame and tomato on a bed of rice by kurumicooks healthy delicious easy to make Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking for your kitchen

My Miso Salmon Poke bowl

I like to think my latest recipe holds true to the origin of the poke bowl in that it is very much a fish dish.

Sushi, Sashimi, Chirashi, Poke Bowl

Chicken Nanbanzuke

Chicken Nanbanzuke Here's a recipe from my good friend Yumiko Nikaido who lives in Tokyo. The dish is called chicken nanbanzuke . The word "nanbanzuke" translates roughly as "southern style taste." The nanbanzuke method of cooking originated on the southermost of Japan's main islands, Kyushu, where it was learned from Portugese traders several centuries ago. In Portugal, the method is known as escabeche and consists of a vinegar marinade usually combined with olive oil a

Japanese Chicken dishes

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Abeno Japanese Okonomiyaki restaurant, London WC1 -- a review

Can you resist a Tonkatsu?

Taro Japanese restaurant in London N3 --a review

Miso marinated Pork loins

6 Japanese restaurants in London - a review

Korean savoury pancake - Pajeon

Tofu katsu + Japanese curry = Food Heaven

Vegetable Tempura

Sukiyaki - Kanto style

Okonomiyaki with Chicken

Japanese style Chahan with Chicken

Aubergine Katsu

Japanese Pork stuffed rolled Cabbage

Oven baked Karaage Chicken Nuggets

Japanese style Spaghetti Napolitan

Tendon with Prawns

South Korea's #1 Hit Dish Bibimbap

Chinese style Seafood Chukadon

My Miso Salmon Poke bowl

Chicken Nanbanzuke