Summer is here. I couldn’t pen down my thought of one summer dish: unagi. Unagi is a freshwater eel that is usually cooked in glazed-grill style. It’s a common food staple in Japanese cooking. Unagi is often eaten during a hot summer day especially by end of July or day of the ox, ‘doyo no …
Unagi is Japanese word for grilled fresh water eel. Unagi is considerably an expensive dish in Japan, yet favourable by many. It’s not everyday dish. On our recent visit to Sawara, we allocated nearly 2.5 hours just to eat unagi. Yamada restaurant that we wanted to have lunch at is a famous Japanese restaurant within …
Pasta is a traditional Italian dish. There is nothing Japanese about pasta. When it uses “dashi” (a Japanese broth made from kelp, bonito flakes and dried sardines), fish roe and is eaten using chopsticks, it’s officially a Japanese pasta. There are many varieties of Japanese pasta in the market. Mentaiko (fish roe) spaghetti, uni (sea …