I jumped at the chance to take a trip into Tokyo’s Kapabashi district last week with a visitor. Kapabashi is otherwise known as Kitchenware town. It is made up of one main street between Asakusa and Ueno and is lined on either side with shops.
These shops are all specialist retailers whose main market are the […]
Tonight I was after a 5 minute dinner and this is what we ended up with.
A couple of handfuls of frozen prawns.
Half a bunch of enoki mushrooms
An onion
A handful of green beans
4 cloves of garlic
A big squirt of honey
2 bunches of Udon noodles
It takes about 4 minutes to boil the noodles and about the same time […]
The first thing I should warn you about when you order this dish is speaking too quickly. If you mess it up, you might just get an ageing Rolling Stone for dinner instead of braised meat and potatoes.
The second important point to note is that I have been told that this is a Japanese test […]
An oyaku nabe is a small shallow fry pan designed specifically for cooking donburi (rice bowl) dishes. They come in a few sizes but are usually used for single serves. The only oyaku nabe that I have seen are aluminium and have a single thickness across their base, making for relatively quick and controllable cooking.
The […]
Unlike Superman, Ultraman, Anpanman and all of the other superheroes, Nikuman is just plain lazy. You will often find him lying around in a glass cabinet in a convenience store or in the front of a specialist nikuman shop. He is often found in the fridge or the freezer of a supermarket and will benefit […]
This is an invention of mine (or at least I think I invented it, but you can never really prove that sort of thing) and I need a hand naming it.
Here is the basic concept, very simple. I saute three types of mushroom with some naga negi (long onion) and then add the tiniest dribble of […]
The dark and poorly taken photo above is a Nabe. From what I can work out so is a conventional steel saucepan or pot. But if we are talking traditional Japanese food, this is what a Nabe will look like.
I cannot express to you the importance of this ceramic dish. I would trade all of […]
Last weekend was a public holiday in Japan so we celebrated by having a little nabe party. The nabe is the pot you see in the photo. The party is the bits and pieces of people you see loitering around the edge of the photo.
We went for shabu shabu this time. This means a pot […]
This is the last post I will be writing in my loose series on Matsuri food (but I am heading to another Matsuri this weekend so I reserve the right to go back on my word). I have left this to last, because I wasn’t sure that I should let the world see the bad […]
Now before anyone jumps down my throat to tell me that this is not what they are called… I know. What I don’t know is what they are called. These guys are available at festivals all over Japan and I expect to bump into another crowd of them this weekend at the University of Tsukuba Festival, […]
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