Giappolandia - Part 3: Food
very interesting section of this restaurant. Issue could in fact be making the decision to go to Japan considering what we hear around the Japanese cuisine: fried the fish, the fish raw, these broths ... That
fried fish, the fish raw, and all those other things are great!! The sushi
Western fashion is not just a pale imitation of the original Japanese cuisine.
But let's order. I will speak before the dishes I tasted it and then the "systems" of Japanese restaurants, some very special and interesting.
Rice: Rice is the almost inevitable element in every dish. It is important, so much so that there are shops that sell only rice. It is almost always cooked by steaming, resulting in slightly sticky for easy handling with chopsticks.
Sashimi: Raw fish filleted and served with soy sauce and turnip. The prized fatty tuna. Prepared with fresh fish (ie Tzukiji around the area where there is the fish market) is divine, it literally melts in your mouth.
Sushi: sashimi together with the balls of rice and a tocchettino (if not escape the finger to cook) Wasabi, spicy sauce. Be careful not to eat it directly (the wasabi say), the effects can be unpleasant. The sushi is delicious ' unagi, eel lightly grilled with soy sauce. My favorite dish!
Okonomiaki : the closest thing to this dish is an omelet. Can be made with fish, meat and vegetables, bound together by an egg and cooked on a hot plate at the center of the table. It literally means "the way you want kitchen." In fact you can find many restaurants where it is left to the free choice customer on how to compose the dish to taste, choosing from a wide variety of ingredients such as meat, seafood and vegetables, then dipped nell'ingrediente main, consisting of a batter of cabbage and other vegetables, thus forming a kind of pancake to be cooked on the plate. It is seasoned with a sauce for okonomiyaki and can be coated with soy sauce, mayonnaise, ao-nori (dried seaweed), fish scales and anything else to suggest your own personal taste
Soba are of brown buckwheat noodles. They are eaten hot and cold or as a soup. Particularly good (at least in my opinion) is the version -aki soba by adding a bit 'spicy, with bits of meat and other spices.
Tempura: fish or vegetables fried in batter. Served with the sauce for the tempura (do not know exactly what it is made)
Mishiru: miso soup, fermented soybean paste. The call always miso soup, but in reality there are a thousand versions of this soup always taste good and gentle but sometimes it's a bit 'way to eat what's inside.
Tea: Tea is served at any time of day, is the symbol of hospitality and has therefore a very important significance in cooking and Japanese culture. The Japanese tea is green because it generally does not undergo fermentation, it is very refreshing and thirst-quenching. It has a bitter taste and is drunk during meals, instead of water.
These are some of the dishes I tried. But we envision a little 'how the restaurant.
It starts from the fact that the Japanese hardly leave you hungry. In fact, every 2 / 3 meters is a restaurant. There are whole buildings of 8 floors of restaurants. In any mall is at least one floor dedicated to food. And is not that the mall is eating less well. The food is good everywhere. But sometimes you can eat better. But the lower limit is more than satisfactory.
Details of the various restaurants is monotematicità: single restaurant specializes in one type of food and nothing else. You must first decide what you eat. Side effect is if you go to dinner with friends and two people want different dishes. For the choice of eating
Just take a stroll in a floor of a shopping center. Out of the individual restaurants, there is a supper table plates (plastic or wax) that show what you can find inside. Although made of plastic sometimes look very appetizing.
come in and pick the dish you will be greeted by a thunderous "Irasshaimase" (Welcome). They make you sit and you are now tea-towel rods and hot sterilized to wash your hands (I think that feeling in the winter must be beautiful:))
The rest works like all the restaurants in this world except for the thanksgiving mass of all the cooks and waiters when you are about to leave the room: Arigato gozaemaaaaaaaas.
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