Exploring JAPAN


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Chikara-udon
This dish is a bowl of udon noodles with mochi (pieces of rice cake) and other ingredients added.

Tempura-soba
As the name suggests, a bowl of soba noodles with tempura (often fried prawns) on top, a great favorite in Japan.

Oshi-zushi
This is made by placing a variety of "tane," including small sea bream, conger eel and mackerel, on top of a bed of "sushimeshi" and pressing in a wooden mold like a small box.

Chirashi-zushi
This features slices of both cooked and raw fish piled on top a bed of "sushimeshi" in a bowl. In the Osaka area, it is known as "gomoku-zushi".

Nabeyaki-udon
Hot dish of udon noodles, with assorted pre-cooked vegetables, gingko-nuts, mushroom, tempra and egg served in the bowl in which it was cooked.

Kamaage-udon
Udon noodles prepared and placed as it is, into a boling pot of water to be served out to large numbers of people gathered around, is called kamaage-udon.

Sashimi
This is a small, thin sliced pieces of raw fish and shellfish like tune, bonito and squid served with soy sauce and wasabi as condiments.

Maki-zushi
A roll of "sushimeshi" with a mixture of "tane" at the center is wrapped in lightly toasted "nori," seaweed and sliced crosswise for eating.