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Whether you call it Onigiri – γγ«γγ – or musubi, there’s a lot to love about Japanese rice balls! Salted and lightly compressed rice filled with goodies like pickled plums or okaka and wrapped in sheets of nori. YUM! Learn about the origins of onigiri, the best rice to use and step-by-step directions to form your own perfect rice balls at home. Plus four delicious, easy to make onigiri recipes!
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Try a deliciously sweet and chewy festival favourite with this easy three colour dango dumplings recipe. Cute and colourful, these sweet dumplings consist of sweetened rice flour and water made into a paste and moulded into bite-size balls. This traditional Japanese dessert is the perfect finishing touch to a Japanese-inspired afternoon tea.
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Japanese crepes are a popular dessert item in Japan, especially among young Japanese women. Japanese love this traditional French dessert, as evident by the many crepe shops and stands that can be found all over Japan serving up an amazing variety of sinfully sweet and fruity flavor combinations.
Japanese-style crepes are quite similar to French Crepes. Like Japanese cake and Japanese bread, crepes in Japan are the product of an importing of European food culture into Japan. Of course, like most foods imported into Japan from abroad, crepes in Japan have been tailored to suit local tastes, and the result is predictably delicious!
4.DORAYAKI
Dorayaki appears in the famous manga “Doraemon.” The character Doraemon is a robot came from the future, but his favorite food is dorayaki. In the English version of this manga, dorayaki is translated as “yummy buns.” It shows how much dorayaki is appreciated in Japan. You can also purchase dorayaki with Doraemon character on it available from Bunmeido. It is, however, only sold twice in a year, around March and around September. You can find it in department stores in Japan.
Dorayaki is one of the Japanese sweets that are loved by Japanese people. It is made of two hand-sized pancakes made of castella. Between the pancakes, it is filled with sweet azuki red bean paste. It actually tastes as if you are eating pancakes, accompanied with Japanese red bean paste. The name comes from the word “dora” which means “gong” in Japanese. It is said that we call it “dorayaki” because pancakes look like gongs. We don’t know exactly where this name comes from or when it was created.
5.OMURICE
Omurice (γͺγ γ©γ€γΉ) is a loanword from both Omelette (omuretsu, γͺγ γ¬γ) and Rice (raisu, γ©γ€γΉ). In this recipe, fried rice is seasoned with sweet and sour flavor of ketchup and tomato puree, and tucked inside a thin blanket of golden fluffy omelette. It’s sweet and savory, the whole ensemble of omurice is just so comforting to many Japanese people that it is considered one of the most popular yoshoku (western-style Japanese food).
6.RAMEN
When you hear the word “ramen,” it’s no surprise that dozens upon dozens of adaptations of Japan’s iconic noodle soup may spring to mind. The slurp-y, affordable comfort food first started popping up in port towns in the late 19th century in the form of imported Chinese hand-pulled Lamian noodles, and immediately became a favorite dish among locals. However it didn’t take long for the Japanese to go from making it their go-to meal at Chinese establishments to putting their own twist on the dish, changing the stock and toppings and selling it from street carts.
7.TAKOYAKI
akoyaki balls are basically balls of batter and diced octopus, mixed with several other ingredients that make it packed full of flavor with every bite. The maker of the snack is believed to be Tomekichi Endo, a local street vendor who came across a kind of dumpling called Akashiyaki during a trip to Akashi city in the Hyogo Prefecture back in the 1930s.
