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| Friday, April 21, 2006 |
| Tamago Yaki - Japanese Omelette |
Here is a nice simple Japanese omelette recipe. The Japanese call this dish Tamago Yaki. It is very easy to make.
Ingredients
1/2 a table spoon of dashi stock*, shoyu (soy sauce)and brown sugar
2 eggs
a pinch of salt
Method
Mix all of the ingredients together.
Heat a small amout of vegetable oil in a small frying pan. Don't use oil if it is a non stick pan.
Pour around a quarter of the mix into the pan, just as the egg is starting to set flip about 2 - 3cm of the egg over and roll egg up and leave up the end of the pan.
Repeat the process with another quarter of the mix letting it spread into/under the previously made roll.
Keep repeating this process with each quarter.
Once egg is cooked cut into 2.5 - 3cm peices and serve.
Again I have made this dish, it is a little sweet and delicous.
Give it a try!
*you should be able to buy instant dashi stock in your local super market, mix according to directions on pack. |
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| Wednesday, April 12, 2006 |
| Karaage (Fried Chicken) recipe |
Apart from posting web sites about food on here, I would also like to share some easy Japanese recipes for you all to try. If you have any recipes (must be Japanese) feel free to send them in and I will publish them. The recipes can be anything from a Yaki Niku dipping sauce to Okonomiyaki to Ramen.
Todays recipe is Karaage or Deep Fried Chicken Japanese style, it will serve around two people.
Ingredients
2 chicken breasts, skinned and cut into bite size peices
3 tablespoons of shoyu (soy sauce)
30 grams of grated ginger
2 peices of garlic grated
salt and pepper
2 tablespoons of corn flour
2 tablespoons of plain flour
A good lug of vegetable oil to deep fry in
Method
Mix the ginger, shoyu, garlic and salt and pepper with the chicken and refrigerate for 30 - 60 mins.
Mix the both kinds of flour together and use it to coat the chicken well.
Heat the oil in a saucepan or something simillar and fry chicken until golden brown, around 4 - minutes.
Drain Karaage on kitchen papper to soak up excess oil, the chicken shouldn't be greasy like KFC, it should be crunchy.
Serve with a side dish of rice or salad.
Yes I have made this dish before and it was oishi! (delicious)
Too easy, enjoy! |
| posted by ramen_lover @ 5:37 AM |
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| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 |
| Buy Japanese snacks online! |
I stumbled accross this site by accident. It looks simple but you can order snacks from Japan from this site. There is quite an extensive range of snacks from chips to chocolates, things you can't get here in the west. Sure you can head on down to your local asian supermarket and buy Pocky now, but can you get all the varieties? How about Japanese chewing gum? Japanese chewing gums flavour seems to last and last. Do you like Kit Kats? How about trying the green tea flavour only available in Japan. Another choclate snack I highly recommend are Meiji Choco Baby, the chocolate is rich and sweet! In the Chip department I recomend Calbee Potatoe sticks. I remember spening many a night in the internet cafe munching on these. Any way click on the link and explore some interesting variations on our idea of snacks.
Click here for snacks! |
| posted by ramen_lover @ 7:27 PM |
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| Sunday, April 02, 2006 |
| Ichi-Ran: worlds best tokotsu ramen |
I want to introduce you all to one of my favourite restaurants in Japan, Ichi-Ran. The ramen they serve there is called tonkotsu ramen, it's soup is pork based and is the worlds best in my opinion.
For those of you that don't know what ramen is, it's a noodle dish served with one of four soups, tonkotsu (pork), shoyu (soy sauce), miso(bean paste) and shio(salt). These can also be mixed to form a variey of combinations such as tonkotsu miso. In the soup and noodle mix a variety of things are added, the most common being chaashuu (pork), negi(spring onions) and tamago(egg). Some even include sweet corn and seaweed.
If you are ever heading down south to Fukuoka you would be crazy not to stop by at least once for lunch or dinner, it's quite an experience. Before you enter you need to purchase a ticket from the vending machine out the front of the restaurant. Then you sit down in individual separated booths around the serving area (see pic). In the booth there is an order form ( provided in English if you need it) where you can customise your ramen. You can customise many things from the hardness of the noodles to the amount of garlic or spice in your ramen. Beginers are recommend to choose medium for everything if they are unsure. If you happen to finish all your noodles and have a heap of soup left over you can order more to enjoy, this is called kaedama and is around 100yen.
The dishes are priced reasonably and the servings are generous at 700 yen a bowl. Be warned though this place is very popular and you may have to que for a while before you get in but it is worth it. In my experience weekdays after 3pm were reasonably quiet. The good thing is they are open 24 hours a day, so you can enjoy ramen at any time!
Ichi Ran has expanded quite a lot recently and has stores all over Fukuoka and even quite a few in Tokyo now. Addresses can be found on their web site but I recommend the one at Canal City because it's in one of the most amazing shopping centres in Japan. The address is 〒 812-0018 Fukuoka city Hakata Ku Sumiyoshi 1-2-22-B1F and you can contact them on 092-263-2201 if you are in the country and speak Japanese.
Oh and the taste...it's rich full flavoured soup is like and angel crying on your tongue...heavanly! But don't take my word for it, go there yourself!
Click here to visit the Ichi-Ran home page.
You may need Babel Fish to translate click here to visit. |
| posted by ramen_lover @ 3:55 AM |
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