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Homemade Chicken Ham [Served in 3 Ways] 27 Aug 2013 | 06:04 pm
Unlike in Australia, chicken breast meat is the cheapest among all other parts of chicken in Japan. It costs about 500yen per kg usually, it can be really cheap when there is a promotion. Chicken brea...
Tazuna-zushi [手綱寿司] 20 Aug 2013 | 06:29 pm
Tazuna-zushi or Tazuna Maki is a rolled sushi with diagonal strips of colourful ingredients across the top, often called a rainbow roll. Again, this is also an easy-to-make sushi especially when you n...
Temari-zushi II [手毬ずし] 27 Jun 2013 | 06:59 am
Temari-zushi - one type of the bijutsu-zushi (direct translation will be 'art-sushi') aka decorative sushis that sushi chefs prepare for special occasions. Let's get the meaning of temari first, te - ...
Temaki-zushi [Hand Roll Sushi] 17 Jun 2013 | 11:30 am
Temaki (手巻き) can be made without a sushi mat but it appears in the photos as I used it for photo shooting. This type of sushi is usually rolled up just before serving to enjoy the crispiness of nori. ...
Uramaki-zushi [Inside Out Rolled Sushi] 28 May 2013 | 06:30 am
This is another type of rolled sushi, method of making this sushi is similar to my previous post - hosomaki-zushi except it is inside out. Uramaki (裏巻き) is usually coated with either tobiko (flying fi...
Tsunamayo Maki-zushi [Rolled Sushi Filled With Tuna-Mayo] 21 May 2013 | 06:26 am
There are many types of rolled sushi, thin roll (hoso-maki/細巻), thick roll (futo-maki/太巻) and inside-out roll (ura-maki/裏巻) are commonly available in restaurants or take-out outlets beyond Japan. Afte...
Sushi Rice / Sushi-meshi [The Basic For Sushi] 16 May 2013 | 07:29 pm
Sushi rice or vinegar-ed rice in English, 寿司飯 (read as sushi-meshi) or 舎利/シャリ (read as Shari) in Japanese, whatever you call it, they are all referring to the same thing - the basic ingredient for all...
Meatballs-Bamboo Shoot Soup [How To Prepare Fresh Bamboo Shoot] 30 Apr 2013 | 02:12 pm
Spring in Kyoto is all about sakura and spring vegetables. We are living in the rural area of southern Kyoto, the advantage of living in this area is that we get to taste all fresh local fruits and ve...
Braised Baby Yam With Squid [Y3K Recipes Issue no. 69] 13 Apr 2013 | 07:54 am
Squid or more commonly said as Sotong (in Malay word among Malaysian), is one of my favourite seafood especially the Sambal Sotong, Butter-Oat Squid, and Calamari Ring. Squid, sotong, or calamari? Wha...
Baked Rice Ship [Hanami Thru My Eyes] 6 Apr 2013 | 08:54 am
In Japan, fresh mushrooms prices are relatively cheap except button mushroom. The most recent trip to supermarket I bought two packs of Enoki mushroom at 98yen, stocked up my mushroom stock again. Now...
