Kaname’s Kitchen
ODEN
A soup of varying fish cakes, daikon, boiled eggs, konyaku and kombu seaweed in a soya sauce.
OKONOMIYAKI
A cross between a pizza and a pancake where the ingredients, like seafood, vegetables, meat, ect, are mixed into the dough.
OMURAISU
A rice omelet topped with gravy sauce or ketchup.
ONIGIRI
Rice balls, sometimes plain but sometimes wrapped in nori seaweed, that have a salty taste and have hidden in them some other food like tuna, salmon or pickled plum called umeboshi.
RED MISO
A soybean paste that is red in this case but can also be white. It is usually found in soup.
SASHIMI
Raw seafood that is often eaten with soy sauce and wasabi.
SHABU-SHABU
A meat fondue garnished with vegetables, mushrooms and tofu dipped first into hot soup and then into vinegar or sesame sauce.
SOBA
Buckwheat, wheat flour spaghetti-type noodles can be eaten hot or cold and topped with whatever you’d like.
SOMEN
Thin spaghetti-type wheat flour noodles usually eaten cold and during the summertime.
SUKIYAKI
Thinly sliced meat, vegetables, mushrooms, tofu and konyaku noodles called shirataki coated in raw egg.
TAIYAKI
Resembles a pancake, except smaller and fatter because it’s stuffed with sweet red bean paste and is cut into the shape of a fish.
TAKOYAKI
From Osaka, Kansai Region of Tokyo by the Yodo River and Osaka Bay. Larger octopi are sectioned off and coated with batter before being formed into a small ball. Smaller octopi are prepared whole.
TEMPURA
Seafood, vegetables, mushrooms and other items of preference coated in a batter for deep frying. This one was introduced by the Portuguese.
TONKATSU
Sectioned pork deep fried before served on top of shredded cabbage or cooked rice. Curry optional.
TSUKEMONO
Japanese pickles of variety. They are often seen alongside a meal.
UDON
Thickened spaghetti-type wheat flour noodles can be eaten hot or cold with whatever topping you desired.
UMESHU
Plum wine drink with potassium and calcium. It has low alcohol content.
YAKISOBA
Deep fried Chinese-type noodles served with vegetables, meat and ginger.
YAKITORI
Skewered chicken cooked by grill.
YAKIZAKANA
Grilled fish, plain and simple.
YODAFU
Tofu cutlets boiled in soup and coated with soya sauce.
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