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  Japanese Cuisine - MediterrAsian.com
The foundation of a traditionally prepared Japanese meal is often rice—usually sticky short grain rice.
This seafood is used in a myriad of tasty ways: eaten with rice, vegetables and seasonings; added to soups, noodle dishes, stir-fries and hot-pots; deep-fried in a light batter and served as tempura; or barbecued and served with tasty sauces and dressings such as teriyaki sauce.
Beef has never been a staple part of traditional Japanese cuisine, and it was even banned from being eaten in Japan until a little over one hundred years ago due to Buddhist teachings.
www.mediterrasian.com /cuisine_of_month_jap.htm   (0 words)

  
 Japanese Cuisine
Clear broth with three cubes of tofu, shitake mushrooms and two rings of scallion green; a few slices of raw fish beautifully garnished and standing alone on a plate; a small dish of pickled cabbage, spare and clean to the palate; this is the uncluttered art of
The Japanese diet gets the bulk of its protein from soybeans and seafood, and so is perhaps one of the healthiest of national cuisines.
Though red meat is a relative newcomer to the cuisine and outrageously expensive, beef, and the more reasonably priced pork, has been integrated creatively into Japanese cuisine.
www.cuisinenet.com /glossary/japan.html   (0 words)

  
 Tokyo Food Page - Japanese Cuisines
We've got plenty of recipes, and our articles on the Japanese kitchen will provide insight into the role of food in everyday Japanese life.
Yuba - a staple of Kyoto-style temple cuisine
Learn how to decipher the Japanese labels on a bottle of sake.
www.bento.com /tf-recp.html   (0 words)

  
 Japanese Cuisine - Allrecipes
An old Japanese proverb suggests primacy of preparation: Eat it raw before all else, then grill it, and boil it last of all.
Though Japan is a mountainous country with relatively limited agricultural output, the waters around the archipelago are brimming with sea life.
Not surprisingly, seafood dominates Japanese cuisine, along with rice, soy, seaweed and fresh vegetables and fruits.
www.allrecipes.com /HowTo/Japanese-Cuisine/detail.aspx   (151 words)

  
  Aka Japanese Cuisine | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Yet it came to mind as I sat at the Aka Japanese Cuisine sushi bar contemplating a Godzilla roll.
What I enjoyed most of all about this boxful of seafood, though, was the chance to eat do-your-own sushi in do-your-own proportions, chopsticking up just enough rice to go along with a bite of fish rather than having to stuff the whole thing into your mouth.
So, for a shareable splurge at $36, is the exquisite premium Tamanohikari sake, in which the earthy omachi rice is milled down 49 percent, leaving only the desirable "white heart" of the grain.
www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/dining/cook/4266662   (1070 words)

  
  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Japanese cuisine
Japanese cuisine is known for its emphasis on seasonality of food, quality of ingredients and presentation.
Japanese cuisine is based on a concept of combining a bland carbohydrate staple food (shushoku), typically rice or noodles, with a soup and okazu - dishes made from fish, meat, vegetable, tofu and the like, designed to add flavour to the staple food.
Japanese mayonnaise is used with salads, okonomiyaki, yaki soba and sometimes mixed with wasabi or soy sauce.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Japanese_cuisine   (4435 words)

  
  Japanese cuisine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A standard Japanese meal nearly always consists of a bowl of cooked white Japanese rice (gohan) as shushoku with accompanying tsukemono (pickles), a bowl of soup, and a variety of dishes known as okazu - fish, meat, vegetable, etc.
Traditional Japanese noodles are usually served chilled with a dipping sauce, or in a hot soy-dashi broth.
Japanese food, which had been quite exotic in the West as late as the 1970s, is now quite at home in parts of the continental United States, and has become an integral part of food culture in Hawaii.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_cuisine   (4083 words)

  
 Japanese Cuisine-Tempura Article
Japanese cuisine -- tempura Tempura is, in many ways, an archetypal Japanese food.
All the essential qualities of Japanese cuisine are reflected in its preparation: the use of absolutely fresh ingredients, the artful presentation, and the perfection of technique by a skilled chef.
The result is one of the triumphs of Japanese cooking -- a fried food that is light and fresh-tasting rather than heavy and greasy.
www.masterstech-home.com /The_Kitchen/Articles/TempuraArticle.html   (776 words)

  
 Taipei Times - archives   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Japanese officials and tourists are alarmed by dishes overseas that are not seen in Japan.
While Japanese food is often seen in the West as vegetarian-friendly, Japanese tourists overseas have been alarmed by the absence of fish-stock in miso soup.
Critics, however, note that not only has Japan itself adapted foreign cuisine to its own tastes, but it now considers dishes such as "tonkatsu" pork cutlets and batter-fried "tempura" seafood and vegetables to be Japanese, despite their Western origins.
www.taipeitimes.com /News/world/archives/2006/12/23/2003341601/print   (686 words)

  
 Bordeaux.com - Bordeaux and Japanese Cuisine   (Site not responding. Last check: )
T.Y.:Japanese cuisine is primarily built around vegetables and fish, with a small amount of meat.
This is the Japanese pot au feu, made by cooking all the day's vegetables and meat in the same pot.
T.Y.:The Japanese are absolutely passionate about monkfish liver, especially when it is served warm, freshly removed from the fish's belly, along the coast.
www.bordeaux.com /et_japanese.html   (847 words)

  
 Cuisine Brief: Japanese
Traditional Japanese cuisine relies heavily on seafood, but a typical meal will contain many vegetable dishes which are or can be vegetarian.
Characteristic of classic country-style cuisine are various types of pickles, which are usually eaten in small quantities at most meals.
Japanese cooking techniques generally produce dishes with subtle, enjoyable flavors with a minimum of fats and oils.
www.jagaimo.com /bistro/cuisine/ja.htm   (470 words)

  
 Japanese cuisine
Japanese cuisine is gaining in popularity all the time, not least because it is looked upon as healthy.
A bowl of rice is frequently served as a side dish for lunch and dinner and as a main dish for breakfast, when it is eaten plain mixed with a raw egg and soy sauce or with various other toppings.
Some Japanese restaurants are equipped with low tables and cushions on the floor, rather than with western-style chairs and tables.
www.myvillage.com /pages/restaurants-japanese.htm   (797 words)

  
 Japanese Cuisine - free article courtesy of ArticleCity.com
Japanese cuisine is easily one of the healthiest in the world, with its concentration on fresh fish, seafood, rice and vegetables.
The Japanese have easily a dozen different names for rice, depending on how it is prepared and what it is served with.
Besides white rice served as a side dish, Japanese cuisine also features onigiri rice balls wrapped in seaweed, often with a ‘surprise’ in the middle, and kayu, a thin gruel made of rice that resembles oatmeal.
www.articlecity.com /articles/food_and_drink/article_584.shtml   (590 words)

  
 Japanese cuisine at AllExperts
Japanese food, which had been quite exotic in the West as late as the 1970s, is now quite at home in parts of the continental United States, and has become an integral part of food culture in Hawaii.
Chinese, French, Italian and Spanish cuisine is of particular interest to Japanese people, whilst the food of Northen European countries and the US is generally held in quite poor regard.
In a constant quest to adopt and expand Japanese cuisine, Japanese have made hundreds of recipes that are distinctly different from the original recipes but still retain the "air" (and basic taste) of their origins.
en.allexperts.com /e/j/ja/japanese_cuisine.htm   (3869 words)

  
 Nakamoto Japanese Cuisine - Plano Texas - Sushi and Authentic Japanese Food
Japanese cuisine has long been recognized as something delicious, elegant, and different.
In recent years, Japanese food, especially sushi and sashimi, has become popular as a healthier alternative for dining out.
Japanese recipes have even adapted to the Western taste with several dishes reflecting the fresh ingredients and multicultural palates of the west.
www.nakamotojapanesecuisine.com /about_jfood.htm   (275 words)

  
 Japanese Cuisine - CookbookWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Japanese cuisine is world-renowned for it's highly skilled preparation methods and unique and refined presentation.
A Japanese chef may place a spray of pine needles or a leaf on your plate in accordance with the seasons.
The key to understanding Japanese cuisine however is to realize the important role that seafood plays in a typical Japanese diet.
www.cookbookwiki.com /Japanese_Cuisine   (928 words)

  
 Sun.Star Cebu - Affordable Japanese cuisine?
And delicious indeed is the Japanese cuisine at Oishii Japina Restaurant along M.L. Quezon st. in Cabancalan, Mandaue.
To make sure the cuisine in Oishii is authentic, he shops for his ingredients in a Japanese grocery in Manila, except for fresh ingredients locally available.
To savor the full flavor of the food, we have to go back there and order just enough to satisfy the palate and the senses for Japanese cuisine is an art form to fill the stomach and to appeal to one’s sense of the beautiful.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2002/11/23/life/affordable.japanese.cuisine..html   (531 words)

  
 eG Forums -> Japanese Cuisine
Unagi is the Japanese word for eel and about 95% of the unagi eaten in Japan is kabayaki style which is grilled with a soy based sauce.
Okowa is a type of rice dish that uses a mix of regular Japanese short grain rice and mochi-gome (Japanese sticky rice).
Japanese style rice grown in the US needs a little bit more water then Japanese-grown rice, because most American rice farmers use the dry field method, while in Japan everything is grown in wet fields.
forums.egullet.org /index.php?showtopic=28058   (3092 words)

  
 Japan Prepares to Send 'Sushi Police' on Worldwide Crusade to Improve Japanese Cuisine
Japanese traveling abroad are returning home with increasing complaints about soggy seaweed, limp noodles and sushi with most untraditional toppings.
But the Japanese are obviously open minded in modifying the cuisine of other nations, just as they successfully did with automotive technology and consumer electronics.
Mily Togasa, whose father was Japanese, is a chef and owner of a Japanese restaurant on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
www.voanews.com /english/BKG-HERMAN-SUSHI-JAPAN.cfm   (874 words)

  
 Cookbook:Cuisine of Japan - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
The word Gohan (御飯) means rice but because rice is the staple diet of the Japanese, it also means meal and applies to all food.
However, fish is an important ingredient in almost all Japanese dishes, even when it's not immediately apparent.
Japanese cooking employs dried fish products shaved on the top of many foods, but most problematic for vegetarians is dashi, a broth made of dried bonito fish that is used extensively through the cuisine.
en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Cookbook:Japanese_cuisine   (371 words)

  
 Louisville Scene | Dining | Restaurant Review | Maido Essential Japanese Cuisine   (Site not responding. Last check: )
With a few notable exceptions, Japanese cooking in Louisville has been represented by the Americanized Japanese steakhouse genre (with those communal combination tables and grills) and sushi bars of varying quality.
But recently, a Japanese restaurant that is to all the other Japanese restaurants in town like Go is to, not chess, but checkers, opened on Frankfort Avenue.
And since soba (buckwheat, also used in many Japanese noodles) is used instead of barley to brew the beer, the dry, crisp ale paired beautifully with our meal.
www.courier-journal.com /scene/2004/05/08/dining_restaurant_maidojapanese.html   (738 words)

  
 Consumer Health Digest :: Japanese Cuisine
Tempura, sukiyaki, sashimi, sushi –; even the words used to describe the most basic of Japanese dishes are exotic and beautiful.
Besides white rice served as a side dish, Japanese cuisine also features onigiri –; rice balls wrapped in seaweed, often with a ‘surprise’ in the middle, and kayu, a thin gruel made of rice that resembles oatmeal.
Fish sliced so thin that it’s transparent may be arranged on a platter in a delicate fan that alternates pink-fleshed salmon with paler slices of fish.
www.consumerhealthdigest.com /japanesecuisine.htm   (589 words)

  
 Taipei Times - archives   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Japanese cuisine, with a Thai, French, Italian or Korean twist.
Japanese expats have been congregating in the area around Lane 119, Linshen N. Rd. for decades, and it is home to a great number of restaurants serving authentic Japanese cuisine for homesick Japanese.
In addition to Japanese cuisine, he has learned a variety of cooking styles from his chef friends, enabling him to come up with a new menu every month.
www.taipeitimes.com /News/feat/archives/2003/01/03/189641   (561 words)

  
 The Health Benefits of Japanese Cuisine
Japanese cuisine is easily one of the healthiest on Earth, with its concentration on fresh fish, seafood, rice, and vegetables.
The Japanese claim easily a dozen different names for rice, depending on how it is prepared and what is served with it.
Sushi is typically arranged to show off the colors and textures to their best advantage, turning the platter into paint palettes for the artistry of the chef.
chetday.com /japanesecuisine.htm   (589 words)

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