Here’s another tasty udon recipe which takes the humble udon and spices things up with a hearty soup including pork and spring onions. I like to cook an onsen egg or poached egg and add it in for extra flavour and depth. Ingredients 200g Pork...

Iri means to fry and dofu is tofu. This is normally served as a simple side dish to other main courses and consists of tofu stri fried with other vegetables until it resembles something like scrambled eggs. Iri dofu sometimes contains pork, but I...

Traditionally, this Japanese soup containing mochi rice cakes is made on New Year’s day and eaten on 3 consecutive days. There are 2 main varieties of soup – a clear soup flavoured with dried bonito stock and soy sauce in eastern Japan (Tokyo...

Renkon means lotus root in English, and is a great source of vitamins and minerals. They are deliciously crunchy, with a slightly sweet after taste – have a look in your local Asian grocery for them next time you’re out. If you can’t find...

This is a fast and simple recipe for the delicious Japanese korokke – a croquette made of meat and vegetables. They’re great for lunch boxes, as part of bigger dishes such as Japanese curry, and are great for kids – they taste delicious so...

Yakisoba is super popular in Japan and in the west, thanks in part to cheap and nasty instant noodles which taste great but have all the nutritional value of cardboard Yakisoba is sold everywhere in Japan, and is even put into hot dog rolls and...

This fluffy and delicious soup is created from a home made chicken stock recipe outlined below. If you chose to use packaged Chinese chicken stock, no problem – you’ll be able to make the soup in under 5 minutes! Ingredients (For optional home...

Tonyu is soy milk and nabe means hot pot, so here we have a delicious and nutritious, sweet, rounded, and delicate in flavour, soothing winter soup. It is a very popular dish in Japan, often served in ryokan (Japanese inns) or tofu restaurants. This...

This is Japanese roast beef, served rare in a delicious Asian marinade. I was surprised how inexpensive Wagyu was on sale in Sydney for at my local Japanese superstore. It was roughly the same price as a decent sirloin of regular beef from the...