I shot this thing at my local vegetable shop this week. It looks like unshaved Katsuobushi (fermented and dried bonito) but I am sure it was actually a vegetable. In the pack was something that looked like saw dust.
Any guesses as to what it is and how to use it?
Tonight at my house was ginger pork night. A time of great celebration and anticipation. This was my best version yet. 5mm thick pork loin quickly fried with onion and mushrooms and then dowsed with a mix of sake, mirin, fresh ground ginger, soy and sugar.
It came out of the pan and onto a bed […]
Dried shrimps of the minuscule kind are a new delight in my refrigerator. These little guys are about half an inch long each although they were probably slightly larger the last time they were swimming. There isn’t much meat left inside when they are dried out. All that is left is 100% flavour. Sitting on […]
What do you get for 250 yen, about $2.50, today. I can buy almost 2 liters of gas, almost a starbucks coffee, or a train ticket across Tokyo. That is, unless you go tho the Obento shop at the bust corner of Asakusa right next to 2 of the entrances to the Tsukuba Express.
At this […]
4 double kitkats in a jar. Sold from a vending machine. Sandwiched between cold drinks on one side and hot coffee on the other. How does it survive? The technology is amazing. What is the best thing that you have ever bought from a vending machine?
Tags: Appetizers/Snacks/Nibbles, Japanese
Today I had the best soba experience I have ever had. Believe me I have had some wonderful soba times but this was the best.
Kake soba, fresh off the noodle bed, served searingly hot in rich and salty soup. It was big, very big and just what I needed to survive the cold. I rode […]
Picture 3 Australians crowded around a table. One is studying Kanji, another is studying Japanese grammar and the third is studying the Japanese Lonely Planet. Out comes a packet of this chocolate with macha and you can probably guess what happened.
Our analysis was short and sweet. One said “great”, one said 8 out of 10, […]
This is the third type of choco pan that I had in mind when I wrote about the three types back here. This one has to be the lowest level of choco pan. Simply a long life type bread stick. Dry and tasteless. Dipped in chocolate. These guys exist on the shelf next to cookies […]
Lisa from Lunchbucketbento was on the same wavelength as me when she picked this one other type of choco pan. Have a look at her description in the comments to this post. You can understand what she is talking about if you look at where I took a bite in the photo. It has a swirled […]
It is found in the refridgerater of the supermarket and comes in a few different varieties. The differences are in the mix of ingredients but they are all based on the same concept.
This one is a mix of tiny fish (slightly longer than a grain of rice), shredded umeboshi, Seaweed and sesame. The mix is used […]
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