Dinner
Katsu Curry
A breaded cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with Japanese curry sauce — thicker, sweeter and darker than an Indian…
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Dinner
Tonkotsu Ramen
The milky, collagen-heavy pork broth that made Hakata famous, boiled hard for eight hours until the fat and gelatine…
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Dinner
Chicken Katsu Curry
Japan's favourite comfort food: a panko-crusted chicken cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with a thick, gently…
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Appetizers
Chicken Karaage
Japan's definitive fried chicken: thigh meat marinated in soy, sake and ginger, dusted in potato starch and fried…
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Dinner
Miso Ramen
Sapporo-style ramen: a miso tare whisked into rich pork or chicken broth, stir-fried pork and vegetables piled on…
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Baking
Japanese Milk Bread (Shokupan)
Shokupan: the pillowy square loaf found in every Japanese bakery, built on a cooked flour paste that lets the dough…
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Quick Meals
Chicken Teriyaki
Real teriyaki is a technique, not a bottled sauce: chicken pan-fried until the skin crackles, then glazed in a…
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Desserts
Japanese Cotton Cheesecake
The jiggly cotton cheesecake — somewhere between a soufflé and a sponge, barely sweet, and impossibly light. It…
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Appetizers
Pork Gyoza
Pan-fried pork dumplings with a lacy crisp base and a juicy, cabbage-sweet filling. The steam-fry technique gives…
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Desserts
Strawberry Daifuku Mochi
Ichigo daifuku: a whole strawberry wrapped in sweet red bean paste and encased in soft, dusted mochi. Made in a…
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Quick Meals
Yakisoba
Wheat noodles fried on a griddle with cabbage, pork and a thick fruity brown sauce, finished with aonori, bonito…
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Quick Meals
Oyakodon
Chicken and egg over rice — the name means "parent and child" — simmered together in a sweet-savoury dashi until the…
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Lunch
California Roll
The inside-out roll that introduced the West to sushi: crab, avocado and cucumber wrapped in seasoned rice and…
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Drinks
Iced Matcha Latte
A properly whisked iced matcha latte, with no clumps and no bitterness — the difference is entirely in sifting the…
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Quick Meals
Gyudon
Thinly sliced beef and onion simmered for four minutes in dashi, soy and mirin, then tipped over rice. Japan's…
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Healthy
Miso Soup
The five-minute soup that anchors every Japanese meal: a clean dashi broth, silken tofu, wakame and miso whisked in…
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Lunch
Omurice
A Japanese diner classic: ketchup-seasoned chicken rice wrapped in a thin omelette, either folded neatly or, in the…
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Breakfast
Tamagoyaki
Sweet rolled omelette built from a dozen thin layers, cooked in a rectangular pan and rolled onto itself again and…
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Dinner
Sukiyaki
A hot pot cooked at the table: thin beef seared in a heavy iron pan, then simmered in a sweet soy warishita with…
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Appetizers
Crispy Vegetable Tempura
Tempura batter should be lumpy, ice-cold and barely mixed — everything you would consider wrong in any other batter…
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Appetizers
Yakitori Chicken Skewers
Charcoal-grilled chicken skewers lacquered in a tare that gets richer every time you use it. The Japanese izakaya…
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Quick Meals
Pork Shogayaki
Thin pork loin fried fast and finished in a ginger, soy and mirin sauce that reduces to a glaze in under a minute…
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Appetizers
Takoyaki
Osaka's street-food icon: molten batter spheres with a nugget of octopus at the centre, turned with a skewer in a…
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Desserts
Dorayaki
Two honey-sweetened pancakes sandwiching a layer of sweet red bean paste — Doraemon's favourite food and a Japanese…
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Baking
Castella Cake
A honey sponge with an astonishingly fine, moist crumb and a dark top, baked in a wooden frame. Portuguese…
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Lunch
Kake Udon Noodle Soup
Thick, bouncy udon in a clear kake broth of dashi, soy and mirin — restorative, restrained and on the table in…
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Lunch
Zaru Soba
Buckwheat noodles rinsed in ice water and served cold on a bamboo mat with a small cup of concentrated dipping…
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Dinner
Unagi Don
Grilled freshwater eel lacquered in a sweet soy tare, laid over rice with more tare spooned across. Eaten in the…
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Dinner
Osaka Okonomiyaki
The Osaka savoury pancake — cabbage bound with a dashi batter, griddled thick, then covered in sweet-sharp sauce…
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Dinner
Buta no Kakuni
Pork belly simmered for two and a half hours in dashi, soy and sake until a chopstick passes through it without…
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Appetizers
Agedashi Tofu
Silken tofu dusted in potato starch, deep fried until the outside is a thin crackling shell, and served in warm…
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Dinner
Nikujaga
Beef and potatoes simmered in dashi, soy and mirin until the potatoes have soaked up the broth and started to fall…
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Appetizers
Chawanmushi
A savoury egg custard steamed in a lidded cup, holding prawn, chicken and ginkgo nuts suspended in a set so delicate…
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Healthy
Gomae
Blanched spinach squeezed dry and dressed in a sweet-savoury sesame paste ground in a mortar — the Japanese side…
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Healthy
Nasu Dengaku
Aubergine halves scored, roasted until collapsing, then lacquered with a sweet-salty miso glaze under the grill…
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Dinner
Tofu Katsu Curry
Firm tofu pressed, crumbed in panko and baked crisp, over a proper katsu sauce built from onions cooked down for…
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Dinner
Tonkatsu
A pork loin cutlet in panko, fried until the crust is pale gold and shattering. The cutlet behind katsu curry, done…
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Lunch
Onigiri
Rice pressed round a filling and wrapped in a band of nori. Japan's packed lunch, and the reason convenience stores…
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Dinner
Shoyu Ramen
A clear chicken broth seasoned with a soy tare, with chashu pork, a marinated egg and thin curled noodles. The…
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Dinner
Ebi Fry
Panko prawns fried straight rather than curled, served with tartare. A Japanese diner classic and the reason for the…
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Dinner
Japanese Curry Roux
Flour and butter cooked slowly to a nutty brown and spiced. Make it once and the shop-bought blocks stop being…
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Lunch
Zosui
Rice simmered in dashi with egg stirred through. Thirty minutes, and what Japanese households make from yesterday's…
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Dinner
Katsudon
A pork cutlet simmered for ninety seconds in dashi and onion with egg poured over, slid onto rice. Forty minutes.
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Appetizers
Hiyayakko
Cold tofu with ginger, spring onion and soy. Ten minutes, four ingredients, and it depends entirely on the tofu.
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