Tori Seiro
Seiro is the name of the boxed dish and bamboo mat traditionally used for chilled soba noodles. It is common to serve cold soba with …
Seiro is the name of the boxed dish and bamboo mat traditionally used for chilled soba noodles. It is common to serve cold soba with …
This dish is a type of tsukemono, or “pickled thing”. What’s special about this Japanese recipe is the way the cucumbers are cut. Score one side …
Green cabbage is best in the winter months. Its leaves are a darker shade of green than usual, and tend to be thinner and sweeter. …
A fatty cut of pork is best for this recipe, such as butabara (pork belly). Most Japanese recipes using pork or beef call for the meat …
This dish is called hotate no isobeyaki in Japanese. Breaking it down, hotate is the word for scallops, yaki means ‘cooked’, and isobe refers to the seaweed wrapping. Actually, isobe …
In Japanese, this dish is called ninjin no shirishiri, or shredded carrot. Japanese is full of onomatopoeic words, and shirishiri happens to be one of them. It indicates the noise …
Chrysanthemum greens are a common ingredient in East Asian cuisine, but it’s not always easy to find them outside of Asia. Look for an Asian …
Sunomono means vinegared thing, but generally refers to a veggie salad dressed with vinegar. The most common type of sunomono is the simple one we …
As with some other leafy layer vegetables, there is a taste and texture hierarchy among napa cabbage leaves. The outer green leaves are somewhat tough, …