Tell me if I am behind the times here, but I think this is pretty cool. It is a silicon cooking brush that my wife brought home from Tokyo last week. Instead of having difficult to clean cotton or meltable nylon bristles, this one is guaranteed to survive a serious stir frying without even flinching. […]
A rare but important statistic that measures the quality of food is chopstick breakage. As far as I can tell, whenever a chopstick gets broken during a meal, it is because the meal is so good and engrossing that the eater loses control and chomps too early or late. I am sure there are other […]
I expected a fair bit of incompatibility when I moved from Australia to Japan. I expected to find difficulties with the language, the customs and even the relationships. But I didn’t expect to have to confront incompatible food sizes.
I guess I was asking for it. On the weekend I got a pizza from a Costco […]
I took a holiday that involved a shinkansen bullet train journey last week. On the platform I grabbed the nicest looking obento to eat on the way. By chance I stumbled on a self heating beef obento.
The deal is, you pull a string that is sticking out of the cardboard box and after 7 minutes […]
What you see here is an old style rice steamer, cooking over a wood charcoal fire. Of course most people don’t cook rice this way in Japan. because there are much more convenient ways. However as new years approaches, it seems people get a bit more traditional and I understand that rice cooked this way is […]
Half grater, half mortar and pestle is this Japanese goma grinder. It works in the same way as a mortar and pestle in that you pound and grind the contents with a rounded stick. But inside the bowl it is all serrated life a cats tongue.
It is usually used for grinding Goma (sesame seeds) but […]
I love soba. By itself cold, hot in soup or pretty much any way else you can imagine. One thing that I don’t like is soggy soba. It can quickly turn from firm bitey noodles into buckwheat mush on your plate if you let it.
The solution is to serve it up (if it is to be dry) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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