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April 14, 2021

What Is Tempura Flour and Why Should You Use It?

How does Japanese make tempura at home? When you try to make tempura at home, the first thing you worry about is maybe tempura batter. In fact, there is a special powder for making tempura called tempura flour (tempura-ko). Although…

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April 13, 2021

[Super EASY & FAST] Best Chashu Pork Recipe

Have you thought that cooking ramen pork chashu is a lot of work? Although I’ve already made seriously delicious chashu using a rice cooker, I thought some of you are looking for the recipe that doesn’t even need a rice…

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April 11, 2021

3 Ingredient Mentsuyu Recipe – How to Make Best Homemade Mentsuyu

How To Make Mentsuyu from Scratch Mentsuyu is one of the most important seasoning for Japanese. It has great flavor of dashi, and sweet-salty taste of the sauce matches perfect with various noodle dishes. What Is Mentsuyu and How Is…

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April 9, 2021

What Is Mentsuyu and How Is It Used?

What Is Mentsuyu? Mentsuyu is a seasoning made based on dashi, mirin, sake, and sugar. Although it is mainly used for noodle dishes such as udon, soba, and somen, it is also used for simmered dishes and dipping sauce of…

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April 9, 2021

What Is Japanese Dashi and How Is It Used?

What Is Japanese Dashi? Japanese dashi is a boiled soup of foods such as kombu (kelp), dried bonito, and various other ingredients. Japanese people use dashi in order to add umami taste extracted from meat, vegetables, mushrooms and seaweed to…

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April 6, 2021

3 Spice Best Curry Recipe from Scratch

Are you looking for the easiest recipe that you can make curry without any curry roux? Here is the one for you! You only need 3 spices for this recipe, and you can make extremely delicious curry super easy. Please…

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April 2, 2021

HONDASHI vs DASHI: What Are the Differences?

Let’s talk about dashi, a fundamental broth in Japanese cooking. Think of it like the chicken or vegetable stock of Japan – it adds a savory, umami flavor base to many dishes. But there are two main types: Traditional Dashi: This…

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April 1, 2021

What Is Hondashi and How Is It Used?

What Is Hondashi? Hondashi is flavor seasoning (dashi granules) that is manufactured and sold by Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Ajinomoto Co., Inc. is the first company that sold umami seasoning called “ajinomoto” in Japan. Hondashi actually contains a little bit of…

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March 30, 2021

What Is Ajinomoto and How Is It Used?

What Is Ajinomoto? Ajinomoto is the most well known umami seasoning in Japan. Umami seasoning is an artificially refined seasoning that stimulates umami taste. It is in the form of crystals combined with sodium, and used by dissolving in water…

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March 30, 2021

Best Ramen Broth Recipe

Some of you might be thinking that making authentic ramen soup is very hard… However, it’s not true. Actually, you can make it so easy at home!! The crucial part about this is that you will make 2 types of…

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