What is your favorite Japanese food?

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:29 am

yoshito wrote: Dang, now I'm hungry for some... on hot rice... darn you kittens...

Too bad

I am also hungry so you have to suffer with me

yoshito · Post by **yoshito** » Tue May 09, 2006 10:34 am

GAH!!!

Miso, onigiris with furikake on it... and ume ones... all warm...

>_> I hate today.

But kittens, do you have furikake at home? =P

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Tue May 09, 2006 10:48 am

yoshito wrote: But kittens, do you have furikake at home? =P

Not right now

So sad..... I have tons of rice and miso so I can cook them but not fikake....

But we are going to Japan in a cople weeks

So I can have tons of Japanese food with furikake

jcaliff · Post by **jcaliff** » Tue May 09, 2006 11:29 am

So much that I love. Where can I begin?

Okonomiyaki! I miss it so much! I prefer kansai style over hiroshima style, but they're both great!

imoten - tempura-fried sweet potato that I used to get all the time. I also liked to get yaki-imo in fall and winter.

ten-zaru - zaru soba with tempura - the combination of hot and cold is great!

Japanese-style amaguchi curry - I don't like Indian curry very much, but sweet Japanese curry isn't spicy at all and I love it. fortuantely I can get it at the Japanese grocery store here

gyuudon - something people in Japan probably miss too

oden - I love the egg and the konnyaku and the tofu and the chikuwa and almost everything (almost...)

kani-cream croquet - yummy! crab and creamy white sauce

sea-chicken onigiri - sounds disgusting, canned tuna with mayo in a rice ball, but I got completely addicted to the ones you got from the convenience store.

Katsuo-tataki - Kochi speciality. Katsuo is out of season most of the year, except in Kochi it's always available. Katsuo-tataki is katsuo (like a small tuna) lightly grilled on the outside with the inside still raw, cut like sashimi, and served with a garlic soy sauce.

snacks like warabimochi with kinako and ohagi (like daifuku turned inside-out) - you could get good ones from the specialty tea shop

mont blanc (momburan) - creamy chestunut cake-like dessert, so good! and at my favorite cake shop they made the BEST yonashi tarts and mousse cake! So amazingly good. and the cream puffs! There used to be lines of people waiting to get the cream puffs as they came out on weekends, that's how good they were. They had both whipped and custard cream in them, dusted with powdered sugar, as big as your fist. Made fresh throughout the day. Amazingly good. Not really Japanes food, but it was a specific Japanese bakery (not part of a chain either) and I miss it.

Melon soda - there's something initially disturbing about electric green anti-freeze colored soda, but it's so good, especially when it was topped off with vanilla ice cream and a marachino cherry (cream soda... yum).

edit: just thought of something else - bottled tea! I don't mean the regular green tea and oolong tea that you can get, I mean the stuff like soukenbicha and juurokucha. I don't know what's in them, but I used to drink them constantly - there's something addictive about them. Can't get either of those at my local Japanese grocery. I haven't had them since I visited San Francisco last year. Spare some Soukenbicha for a poor girl down on her luck desperate for a drink? I need a fix!!

Zag · Post by **Zag** » Tue May 09, 2006 5:09 pm

Who mentioned gummies? My kids and I are addicted to Kasugi gummies.
A bag lasts about 5 minutes in our house. Muscat, Lichee, Apple, Strawberry, Grape.. love them all!

ZombieBunny · Post by **ZombieBunny** » Wed May 10, 2006 5:11 am

MOCHI !!!!!

-Zunny

Sugarflower · Post by **Sugarflower** » Wed May 10, 2006 5:19 am

Is mochi the little snacks that are slightly gummy with sweet filling inside? If so then I love those too. I just could never remember the name of it.

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Wed May 10, 2006 5:22 am

Only just? I am sure you could.

ZombieBunny · Post by **ZombieBunny** » Wed May 10, 2006 5:30 am

Sugarflower wrote:Is mochi the little snacks that are slightly gummy with sweet filling inside? If so then I love those too. I just could never remember the name of it.

Ah yes it is

It is sweet rice flour which is glutinous and the filling is sweet azuki beans. (or sweet red bean paste) It is o delicious!

Here is my fav. Recipe:

Easy Mochi

2 cups mochiko
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 cups water
3 drops food coloring
katakuriko
Azuki Beans (1 can)

Directions: Mix together in bowl: 2 cups mochiko, 1 1/2 cups sugar. Add 2 cups water and mix thoroughly. Add 3 drops of food coloring (red or green) and mix until well blended. Cover with plastic wrap. Microwave on high for 4 1/2 minutes. Take out and mix thoroughly. Microwave again for 3 1/2 minutes more. You can dump onto plastic cutting board dusted with katakuriko (Japanese flour) and cut out with cookie cutter or drop by tablespoonful onto wax paper (dust with katakuriko) .
You might have to experiment with the timing on your microwave.

Variations for Filling: You can add red bean paste, ice cream, chocolate, etc. in the middle if you want BEFORE you dust. add a teaspoon of filling and pinch edges closed.

Variations for Dough: Add a few drops of food coloring into batter for color variation. A few drops of flavoring (strawberry, grape, orange, blueberry, etc.) may also be added. >> For chocolate flavor, stir about 1/4 cup melted chocolate chips into mochi batter before cooking.

Enjoy

-Zunny

EternityOfPain · Post by **EternityOfPain** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:23 am

Revival!

Ramune Pop, Chocolate Pocky (no other flavors) some other stuff i can't remember there names... But I have this awesome asian market near my house which has loads of great stuff.

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:28 am

Drink: Ramune
snack: Yan yans, mocci balls
food: sushi, tempura, sukiyaki

ZombieBunny · Post by **ZombieBunny** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:15 am

I would like to add Sushi.

Thank you

Kata · Post by **Kata** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:51 am

Sushi is my favorite. I especially like Yellow Tail and Tuna when having sushi. I. I do like Makizushi over here, which is how they usually make it around here and also Nigirizushi. Best Sushi I had was in Japan. I had also some Sushi that was with cooked fish, including miniature crab. @_@ crunchy. ^^;;;
I also had Sashimi in Japan and that was really good.

When I make rice I make "sticky" rice and eat seaweed with it. I don't usually eat the regular "lose" rice unless we go to a restaurant. I try to make it like my friend made it in Japan.

I like Sake that can be hot, cold or filtered and unfiltered.

I love Rice Crackers, but I haven't found them around here yet.

I like Pocky and Mochi. I like Wagashi Mochi that has the red bean paste inside.
Miso soup I like in different ways but my favorite is with tofu. Which Tofu is another one of my favorites which I prefer soft.
I like Sukiyaki, Katsudon, Tempura (mixed veggies), Curry, Udon, Soba, Furikake, Onigiri, Yakitori, Natto (even though I didn't like to look at it or smell it ^^;; ).
I love Green Tea from Japan, I have tried green tea over here but they don't' have the same taste as in Japan

. Thanks to a friend of mine I'm once in while able to get the real Japanese tea. ^_^ I also like a tea that is made with rose petals, which I never can remember the name of. I had it in Japan and it was delicious.

There is one soup I had in Japan and forgot the name, but it was made with cabbage and has chicken wings in it and soup base and miso. I really liked it. I just can't remember the name it was called.

Now I love kimchi, which is korean, but I love having that with my rice, too.

Post by **Kaona** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:32 pm

Lemon Squash in a can, kakigori (shave ice), pan - the thickest slices of white bread in the universe, mochi (Japanese or Hawaiian style), and takuan or tsukemono with really good quality rice. Okay, now I'm hungry!

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:32 pm

Yeah okay, Why now? What will you be eating?