Tempura

Tempura is a fried food in Japanese cuisine. Flour, eggs and water are mixed into a slurry, and fresh fish, shrimp and seasonal vegetables are wrapped in slurry. Put in oil pan and fry until golden brown. When eaten, dipped in the juice made from soy sauce and radish puree, it is tender and delicious, fragrant but not greasy. Tempura is not the name of a specific dish, but a general term for fried foods. Specific types include vegetable tempura, seafood tempura, assorted tempura, etc.

Sushi

"Sushi" actually means salted fish. In ancient Japan, it was written as "鮨" (すし), and "鮨" refers to salted fish, and "sushi" (すし) is also the pronunciation of the word "鮨" in Japanese.

Sushi in ancient Japan was salted fish pickled with salt and rice. It tasted very disgusting. Because food at that time was difficult to preserve, making sushi was a last resort. It was just going out, or Food used for emergencies when marching and fighting is not an elegant thing. The reason why the Japanese write salted fish as "sushi" is because "salted fish" (sushi) is not elegant. In order to beautify it and not make people think of salted fish, they wrote it as "sushi".

Sashimi

When fishermen in Hokkaido, Japan supply sashimi, since it is difficult to identify the type of fish fillet after peeling, they often take some fish skin and stab it with bamboo skewers. on the fillets for easy identification. The bamboo sticks and fish skin stabbed on the fish fillets were originally called "sashimi". Although this method was no longer used later, the name "sashimi" was still retained. Sashimi refers to things like fish dumplings, raw fish, sashimi, etc. It refers to dishes in which fresh fish and shellfish are cut into slices and dipped in seasonings to be eaten directly.

Sukiyaki

Sukiyaki is a Japanese dish. The meat is grilled over a fire to satisfy the hunger, hence the name. The recipes and procedures vary depending on the region. Sukiyaki can also be called sukiyaki. It is said that it originated in ancient Japan. When farmers were busy with farming, they simply used the flat parts of iron farm tools at hand, such as hoes and plows, to grill meat over the fire to satisfy their hunger. Hence the name.

Japanese ramen

Japanese ramen originated in China and has become a representative popular noodle dish in Japan. The Japanese are "ラーメン(ramen, ramen)", "そば(soba)", "中华そば", etc. The earliest record of Chinese noodles in Japan is that after the Ming Dynasty's descendant Zhu Shunshui fled to Japan, he used noodles to entertain Japanese people in the Edo period. Daimyo - Mito Domain Lord Tokugawa Mitsuhiro

In the early Meiji era, ramen was a common food in Yokohama Chinatown. In the 1900s, Chinese people from Shanghai and Guangdong sold cut noodles in Japan. The soup base and ingredients. Ramen became popular in Japan during the Showa period. After World War II, cheap flour from the United States and soldiers returning from the battlefield in China made Chinese-style noodles popular. Japanese curry

Japanese curry is a Japanese dish. It is generally not too spicy because it contains concentrated fruit puree, so it is sweeter. Although Japanese curry is also called European curry, it is actually made from Japan. It is called European-style curry because the thickened material used in French cuisine is roux, which is mostly used to make thick soups, and the spices are mostly South Indian-style.

Although European-style curry is richer, compared with similar Indian dishes, the spice is still significantly inferior. In addition to being eaten with rice, curry can also be used as a soup base for noodle soups such as ramen and udon noodles. This aspect is quite different from curry in other places. There is a kind of soup curry in Sapporo, Hokkaido.

Wagashi

Japanese snacks are collectively called "Wagashi", including cakes and desserts. Mochi, rice cake, yokan, daifuku, etc. are the most common, and red beans are often used as fillings.

"Wagashi" is not so much a snack, but its exquisite shape perfectly expresses it. It has inspired the Japanese people’s pursuit of food aesthetics and has become one of the symbols of Japanese food culture. Therefore, many Japanese comics and TV works feature pastry chefs as the protagonists, giving them legendary powers.

In addition to "Japanese confectionery", there is also a type of Japanese confectionery based on baking methods, including red leaf cakes, Ningyo yaki, Dorayaki, Taiyaki, etc., most of which are made with models. Elephant-shaped red bean cakes have similar tastes, but their shapes vary according to local specialties and history.

Extended information

Japanese cuisine

Japanese cuisine originated from the Japanese archipelago and gradually developed into a cuisine with unique Japanese characteristics. Japanese cuisine requires natural color, delicious taste, diverse shapes, and excellent utensils, and the materials and preparation methods pay attention to the sense of season.

Japanese cuisine is mainly divided into two categories: Japanese Japanese food and Japanese Western food. When it comes to Japanese food, many people think of sushi and sashimi. These foods invented by the Japanese themselves are washoku.

In addition, tempura originates from Spain, Japanese curry originates from India, Japanese omelette rice originates from France, Japanese Napoli pasta originates from Italy, and Japanese curry originates from China. Japanese-style ramen, etc., these are called Japanese-style Western food, which means they were introduced from foreign countries. Although they were not invented in Japan, they have been transformed by Japan into a type of Japanese cuisine.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia Japanese Cuisine