Category: Eat

Today’s nukazuke (fermented vegetables in rice bran). The newest experiment was okra – Japan

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Cold soba noodles topped with sansai (mountain vegetables), nagaimo (Japanese mountain yam), tenkasu (deep fried tempra batter), and negi (Japanese leek ) – Japan

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Hiyashi chula (cold ramen). My lunch of choice on a hot day – Japan

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Kuzumochi (fermented wheat starch cake topped with kinako and black sugar syrup). On a side note, there is another version of kuzumochi which is made of kudzu root powder – Japan

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The red coloring looks a little scary but it was a great treat on a hot day – Japan

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Fried squid and vegetables with rice – Japan

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My version is simply seasoned with tarako, butter, and a little bit of soy sauce. The most time consuming part is to get roes out of their sacks – Japan

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(matcha flavored ice cream and sauce, sweet adzuki bean paste, shiratama, and annindofu) – Japan

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Tendon (tempura rice bowl), cold udon noodles with a couple of vegetable side dishes – Japan

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Umeshuume. These ‘ume’ (Japanese apricot/plum) were used to make umeshu (plum liquor) and still contain alcohol. I love snacking on them – Japan

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