Monjayaki!!!

Today, I would like to talk about Japanese Kanto region vegetable pancake 

called MONJAYAKI :) It is very similar with Okonomiyaki which is very popular food in Kansai region. 

Okonomiyaki is cooked with many types of vegetable and sliced meat.

Monjayaki is made with same ingredient as Okonomiyaki but Moanjayaki is used by more liquid than Okonomiyaki. 

The liquid is made from water and powder. 

We mix the sauce and vegetable and put it to iron plate. 

We can add some meat later.

If you want, you can put Rice cake, seafood, cheese, etc. 

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Nabe (steam pot) Part 3!!!

I know everyone was waiting for different types of Japanese Nabe.

I would like to talk about Japanese Nabe part 3 today:) This time, I am going to

talk about Shyabu-Syabu. 

Syabu-Syabu is Japanese variant of hot pot. 

I believe many people in United State know about this Nabe recently 

because I see many Syabu-Syabu restaurant in LA, such as, 

Santa Monica, Hollywood, Torrance, or Orange county. 

Syabu-Syabu is very similar with Sukiyaki which I told before in my blog. 

We eat very thin sliced meet, such as, pork, chicken, duck, beef, sirloin, etc with hot water. 

We also eat a lot of vegetable, such as, tofu, cabbage, seaweed, onion, carrot, mashroom, etc. 

The different thing between Syabu-Syabu and Sukiyaki is that Syabu-Syabu is less sween than Sukiyaki because it is used by only hot water. We do not dip ingredient to egg or sweet soy sauce soup. 

After all meet and vegetable are boiled by hot water, we dip them a little bit to Ponzu, or Sesame sauce. 

What is the best way to eat Syabu-Syabu?

I will tell you...

After you finish to eating meat and vegetable, 

Japanese people put noodle or rice into the hot water.

The water will taste really great because meat and vegetable 

make the water taste perfect.

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Nabe (steam pot) Part 2!!!

Today I would like to talk about a different Nabe.

CHANKONABE :)

Chankonabe is one of the most traditional Japanese food.

It is often eaten by Sumo wrestles as part of weight gain diet food.

Since Chankonabe has a lot of calories because of the volume, and a large quantities of protein, such as, rice, chicken, beer, and noodle), Sumo wrestlers want to eat that to gain more their weight. 

It is eaten by them because Chankonabe is also healthy. It is because there are many different kinds of vegetables in it. 

I do not often eat Chankonabe at my house because 

It is not the traditionally food which Japanese eat at their house

as main dish.

Mainly senior sumo wrestlers can eat Chankonabe. 

Chankonabe is also easy to cook and cheap food so I recommend all of you reading my blog to try it tonight!!!

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Nabe (steam pot) Part 1!!!

Nabe (steam pot) Part 1!!!

SUKIYAKI Nabe :)

Suki yaki is a Japanese Traditional hot pot (Nabe in Japanese) served with

sliced of meat, tofu, mashroom, spring onion, carrot, shirataki (konyaku noodle), and other 

vegitable if you want more. 

Interesting thing is that pieces of food are dipped into a raw egg before you eat them. 

Those food are boiled inside of hot pot with soy sauce based soup. 

the sauce is traditionally cooked with soy sauce, a lot of sugar, and salt. 

I love the sauce because it tastes sweet and perfectly matches with raw egg. 

Here is an image of Sukiyaki Nabe.

Sukiyaki is generally eaten in winter season because it is hot dish. 

Japanese people often eat Sukiyaki at year-end parties because it is easy to cook and many people can eat at the same time together. 

One more interesting thing is that Japanese comedian who has a really tight budget like to cook Sukiyaki nabe because it is of course easy to cook and cheap. 

My family eat Sukiyaki at my grandparents house on December 31st every year.

Try it now!!!

All pictures are from Google