December talking meme - Japanese food
jo_lasalle said, "Please talk about your favourite Japanese foods!"
OMG where do I start?
I love sushi. Particularly any form of maguro (tuna), but I also very happily eat any roe-based sushi, and I just love the non-cooked prawn stuff.
Ramen. This was a slower way to appreciation but really, there's nothing better on a cold day or after a drinking session. I particularly like the Hokkaido noodles, and my go-to is miso or tonkatsu, ideally with extra spice.
Omurice. Rice wrapped in... omelette. I don't like the normal ones, which have ketchup in the rice, but the ones with butter rice and a hayashi (mushroom) sauce? BLISS! I'm very very fond of eggs. And mushroooms. I could skip the rice in this.
Nabe. The tragedy of Covid is that this will probably be among the very last things to become safe again. Hotpot, you put your vegetables and meat in a stew, and you or one of the other 5 people around the table will fish it out and eat it. A very communal experience.
Tofu. OMG I LOVE tofu. The silken kind, the firm fried kind you get in agedashi doufu, the Kouya monk kind which has a totally different texture and is like, MAGIC.
Chestnut and sesame ice creams. My heart.
Anpan (red bean bread). Kurumi pan (Walnut bread). Kurimu pan (custard bread).
I want to be in Japan right now,
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