Various kinds of Japanese cuisine.

Japanese cuisine is food that is cooked in a unique way and also use a food that is taken from Japan and surrounding areas. In Japanese, Japanese food called nihonshoku or washoku. Sushi, tempura, shabu-shabu, and sukiyaki is a popular Japanese food outside of Japan, including in Indonesia.

Sushi

Japanese food consisting of rice which is formed with side dishes (neta) such as seafood, meat, raw or cooked vegetables. Sushi rice has a soft taste sour because seasoned mixture of rice vinegar, salt, and sugar.

Tempura

Japanese food in the form of seafood, vegetables, or wild plants are dipped into a batter of flour and egg yolk diluted with cold-temperature water and then fried with a lot of cooking oil until light yellow in color.

Tempura also mean a different way of frying furai (Japanese term for deep fry). Raw foods are fried in tempura dipped in tempura batter, fried food while in a deep fry wrapped in sequence with wheat flour, beaten egg and flour PANIR.

Cooking oil used to fry tempura tempura oil which is often called a term for various types of cooking oils such as canola oil, salad oil, and sunflower oil.

Shabu-shabu

Japanese Food Nabemono kind of very thin slices of beef dipped in a special pot of hot water on the dining table, and dilambai-wave in the sauce for a couple of times before eaten with sauce (Tare) contains the so-called gomadare sesame or ponzu. Inside the pot is usually also included vegetables, tofu, or kuzukiri.

Sukiyaki

Thinly sliced ​​beef, vegetables, and tofu in an iron pot cooking on the dining table by boiling. Sukiyaki meat eaten by dipping slices into beaten egg.

Sukiyaki vegetables for example onions, leeks, chicory, shungiku (leaf name of the family tree chrysanthemums), shiitake mushrooms and enoki mushrooms. As a complement added Ito shirataki konnyaku or colored glass noodles shaped like a clear or slightly gray.
Bento or o-bento

Japanese term for food supplies following a rice side dishes in a practical package that can be carried and eaten elsewhere. As with cooked rice, Bento can be eaten as lunch, dinner, or picnic.

Donburi

Japanese food in the form of white rice with various toppings on it like fish, meat and vegetables berkuah who served in the large bowl which is also called donburi. Sauce for donburi depend on the type of food, but in general a mixed soy sauce and dashi mirin.

Donburi consists of several types, namely: Unadon, Oyakodon, Fukagawadon,

Gyūdon, Katsudon, tendons, Karēdon, Ikuradon, Unidon, Tanindon, Chūkadon, Tekkadon, Butadon and Mabodon.

Jiaozi

Pork or shrimp and chopped vegetables wrapped in flour sheet. The dough is made from a mixture of leather flour, water, and salt. These foods ripened by boiling. In Japan, a similar food called potstickers, while in Korea called guides. Jiaozi not the same as dumplings (wonton). Jiaozi skin is thicker than dumplings.

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Gyūdon atau beef bowl

Japanese Food Donburi types of white rice bowl on which is placed ventral slices of beef and onions are cooked with soy sauce and sugar. As a flavoring, on top of it are added frequently pickled ginger (benishōga), a blend of spices and peppers called shichimi, raw chicken or eggs to taste.

Sup miso

Japanese cuisine in the form of soup with dashi base material plus the contents of a few seafood soup or vegetables, and given the miso as flavorings. Miso soup enjoyed by lifting the bowl of soup and drink the broth, while the contents of soup eaten using chopsticks.

In general, miso soup, served with white rice as a breakfast menu in many homes in Japan. Miso soup is usually eaten at home, even though there is also a miso soup which was served at a shop or a traditional Japanese restaurant (ryotei). Instant miso soup is miso soup that packs in quite brewed with hot water.

Okonomiyaki

Japanese food with flour ingredients are diluted with water or dashi, plus cabbage, eggs, chicken, seafood or pork and fried on a flat pan called a teppan.

Okonomiyaki is one of the teppanyaki dishes that can be eaten alone or as a side dish of white rice friends. Okonomiyaki is often eaten * with flat spoon called kote (hera), which also serves as sodet while flipping Okonomiyaki.

In Japanese, okonomi means "love-love" (which is preferred, desired) and yaki means "grilled" (the term "fried"is only used in Japan when the foods fried in oil that very much). As the name implies, the top layer (topping) can beadjusted taste Okonomiyaki people who want to eat .

Teriyaki

Is how to cook Japanese food is heated or baked in the pan or the lattice of iron to bake with teriyaki sauce (Tare). Teriyaki sauce made ​​from soy sauce (Shoyu), sake for cooking, and sugar with a rate of 1:1:1.

The word comes from the word teri teriyaki which means shining (because it contains sugar), and said yaki, which means baked or roasted. When making teriyaki, materials that will be grilled foods dipped and smeared with teriyaki sauce up to several times until completely cooked. In Japan, a widely used ingredient in teriyaki dishes are fish (salmon, tuna, mackarel, trout, marlin), while outside Japan to use various types of meat (chicken, beef, pork), or squid as well as material from sweet konnyaku.