Gyudon at Yoshinoya – Beef Bowls for Everybody!
Sep 02, 2014 By Ray Proper
“Gyudon,” a (beef bowl) belongs in the Japanese category of a donburi, or bowl dish. It is made with beef and onion ladled over a bowl of rice. The beef...[ Click to read more ]
Tebasaki – Famous Nagoya Meibutsu
Aug 05, 2014 By First Admin
Famous foods for any given area in Japan are called meibutsu. Osaka meibutsu is okonomiyaki (as is Hiroshima's meibutsu, but they have their own famous style of the same dish), and...[ Click to read more ]
10 Things You Shouldn’t do with Chopsticks in Japan
Jun 12, 2014 By Ray Proper
No idea where I learned how to use them, but somehow I have become quite adept at manipulating these little sticks. I was once asked to eat in front of...[ Click to read more ]
Japanese Recipes in English
Jun 10, 2014 By Ray Proper
Cookpad This app features the best Japanese recipes from the largest cooking community in Japan. Long popular in its native Japanese language, Cookpad is now offering many of its recipes on...[ Click to read more ]
Japanese Food Shopping 101
Aug 13, 2013 By First Admin
One thing about coming to a country where the main language is not English, you're either tied to the food that you can read or recognize, or you have to...[ Click to read more ]
Kuchi Yaki – Meat Wrapped Vegetable Recipes for Summer
Apr 16, 2013 By Ray Proper
I hate to say summer is a great time for yakiniku, because really every time is a great time for yakiniku. In the winter the fire warms, in the summer...[ Click to read more ]
Making Yose Nabe – Recipe
Mar 01, 2012 By Ray Proper
Yose Nabe is a simple hot pot dish. The ingredients are flexible, but the first four are basically required in some measure. If you can master that measure you will...[ Click to read more ]
Yakitori – Grilled Chicken on a Stick. It’s good!
Oct 07, 2011 By Ray Proper
Yakitori in a nutshell: kill chicken, put on stick, grill over fire, and eat. The world at large suffers a serious lack of meat on a stick options, but Japan...[ Click to read more ]
Autumn’s Treat – Matsutake Mushrooms
Sep 26, 2011 By Ray Proper
Just about everyone has seen these mushrooms in the supermarket; these are not the grown on top of a bottle en masse 100 yen variety, these are THOSE mushrooms that...[ Click to read more ]
