Friday, January 27, 2012

PART - 3

Hi .. ^ ^ meet me again .. This is the third time I am giving information about Japanese cuisine .. and according to my promise, this time I will discuss about the ramen ..

^ ^ Ramen is a Japanese cuisine noodle soup that comes from China. The Japanese also called chuka soba or ramen as Shina because buckwheat soba or o-soba in Japanese often also means noodles.

^^History
According to historical records Tokugawa Mitsukuni (Mito Komon) is often referred to as the first Japanese who eat ramen. Chinese-style noodle soup dish was first served at Tokugawa Mitsukuni. The author is a Confucian scholars in exile from the Ming Dynasty who was invited to come to the Mito Domain.
Ramen is expected to start enjoyed by many people in the Meiji era. At that time, ramen has entered into the menus of restaurants in the area berbagau Chinese settlement in Kobe and Yokohama. After that, in the Taisho era, the seller is selling noodles in Hokkaido ramen ramen known as people today.
In Japan, noodle soup is generally made up of two streams:

    
* Mi gravy in a restaurant menu that managed immigrants from China, such as noodle soup with bean sprouts, noodles soup without a side dish (tanmen), noodle soup dumplings, or noodles Cantonese. Miso ramen with the flavor or taste zodiac is also included in the menu.
    
* Mi gravy by street vendors at night and then open the house to eat ramen. Street vendors who peddle noodles around with wheelbarrows already exist in Japan since the Edo period. Seller ramen around wearing charamela cart, blowing trumpets. The songs sounded the tone "sol la si - la sol - sol sol la la la's -". Therefore, the seller circumference in Japanese ramen is often called charamela. Itinerant traders today are already using the tape player as a replacement charamela. Moreover, traders often use the car ramen and bring chairs to trade in crowded places.
Each region or city in Japan usually have a typical ramen dishes are used as tourist attraction. The tradition comes from the efforts of local ramen evoke the region's economy in the 1980s. One of them by promoting typical ramen uniqueness of each region in Japan. Promotion is also done through articles in various magazines. Which is considered one of the most successful promotion is the promotion of Sapporo ramen. Domestic tourists visited Hokkaido rollicking to eat Sapporo ramen. The uniqueness of local specialty ramen has a high commercial value. In Japan there are many best-selling books about ramen. Travel agencies also offer tour packages to get around to enjoy the famous ramen ramen from the seller.


Characteristic:
Chemicals that alter the alkaline nature of gluten in the flour and make a chewy noodles and activate flavonoid compounds contained in the flour so that the yellow noodles. Comparison of water and wheat flour is about 1: 35%, the more water the more soft top anyway dihasilkan.Di ramen noodles are generally added flavoring a variety of side dishes such as: chasiu, menma, boiled eggs, green vegetables (like spinach) , sliced ​​scallions, nori, or narutomaki as decoration. Boiled eggs to ramen usually brown because boiled in soup stew chasiu former. Vegetables as well as the most common flavoring for ramen is sliced ​​scallions. Before added to the ramen, some sellers first ramen fry sliced ​​leeks in cooking oil.

Soup

 Broth for the gravy can be drawn from a mixture of various ingredients such as pork bones, beef bones, chicken bones, katsuobushi, sababushi, niboshi, konbu, gongseng soybeans, shiitake mushrooms, onions or scallions.


Ramen can be classified based on the types of sauces such as sauce, soy sauce flavor, taste sauce tonkotsu (pork bone), a sense shio (salt), and a sense of miso

 
    * Japanese soy sauce flavor
 Ramen soup flavor with soy sauce (shoyu) is the most common type of ramen in Japan, especially on the island of Honshu. Derived from bone soup stew chicken and vegetables. Slightly brown colored sauce because the sauce with the main ingredients are poured soy sauce in the bottom of the bowl. As a flavoring commonly added pepper and flirt (spicy sesame oil).
 
   * Kuah sense tonkotsu (pork bone) 
White sauce is rather thick, tasty, greasy-oil because of the broth from the pork bones. Tonkotsu ramen flavor comes from Kyushu. Taste sauce, not very salty, and sometimes there is also a brownish white sauce. In Tokyo known tonkotsu shoyu ramen broth is a blend of salty soy sauce plus a pork bone soup is very thick.
 
  * Kuah sense shio (salt) 
Colored salt spiced sauce is almost clear, for example, is ramen Hakodate. Its origin is Chinese noodle dish that was introduced as Hokkaido ramen in 1933.
 
   * Favor miso sauce 
Aromatic sauce that comes from chicken bone broth with the addition of miso. Miso ramen flavor supposedly created by fans who want to enjoy eating ramen with miso soup.
^^ HOW TO MAKE RAMEN ^^




Thursday, January 5, 2012

PART 2 ^^

^^ Hi .. Meet again with me .. =)
This time I will discuss about Japanese food called Onigiri.
   

^^ History of Onigiri
 In 1987 found clumps of carbonized rice grains Yayoi era relic from archaeological excavations conducted in Ishikawa Prefecture. Of rice that has been carbonized shaped Onigiri is found the remaining ex-press a finger is pressed by human hands. In addition, rice shaped like Onigiri are also found at the dig site Kanagawa Prefecture

^^ Onigiri is the Japanese name for food such as rice which solidified while still warm so it is triangular, round, or like the sacks of rice. Also known by other names Omusubi, a term reportedly first used among women in the palace of the emperor to call Onigiri. Onigiri eaten by hand, do not use chopsticks.

^^ How to Make onigiri
 Before making Onigiri, both hands should be moistened with boiled water to the rice does not stick in hand. Onigiri is formed by the palms of the hands that were given salt, whereas salt stuck to the surface of the flattened palms spread with movements such as hand washing.

Onigiri simplest type usually contain meat or grilled salmon Umeboshi located in the middle of rice. In addition, there Onigiri grilled having previously greased soy sauce or miso.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

JAPANESE FOOD .. ^^


Do you know about The Japanese Food??
Yeah, I think all of you know about this popular food. ^^ 
Japan has a lot of delicious food. Meals provided is in accordance with the desired taste of people from any area. It can be seen as almost in each country has a fairly well-known Japanese restaurant.
      Ways of making food is also quite diverse. Some only half a cooked fried or boiled and served simply. Japanese cuisine is characterized in food materials. In general, Japanese cooking ingredients such as: rice, agricultural produce (vegetables and nuts), and seafood. Seasonings be made ​​from konbu dashi, fish and shiitake, plus miso and shoyu. In contrast to the cuisines of other countries, Japanese food did not use the seasoning of spices from seeds (pepper) or flavoring yanng contain seeds (such as chili) that must be crushed or mashed. Japanese cuisine also does not use strong-smelling herbs such as garlic. Soybeans are the main ingredients of processed foods. Flavoring is usually a scented vegetables are finely chopped or grated. Japanese cuisine is generally low in fat, but contain high levels of salt.
      Examples of foods that are well-known and much favored by many people in all corners of the world is sushi, onigiri, ramen, yakiniku and shabu-shabu.


^ ^ This time I will discuss about the sushi. I am sure you already know what it is sushi.
      Sushi is a Japanese food consisting of rice that formed along a side dish (neta) of seafood, meat, vegetables, raw or cooked. Sushi rice has a soft taste sour because seasoned mixture of rice vinegar, salt, and sugar.
      Sushi is generally classified by the form of rice, among others nigirizushi and oshizushi.


^^ Nigirizushi

   Fresh seafood (usually raw) were placed on top of the rice which is formed by placing the rice in the palm of one hand and shape it with your fingers the other. Nori is often used to bind the neta that can not be separated from the rice. Side dish that is placed on top of sushi can also be cooked in a state like tamagoyaki or unagi eel and eel anago already baked
# Neta for nigirizushi:
     * Fish
     * Shellfish
     * eel
     * Shrimp
     * Crab (small crab)
     * Fish Eggs
     * The squid, uni (sea urchin), and octopus
     * Aburage, kanikamaboko, kampyo, cucumber, dashimaki, natto, Neri ume, negitoro


^^ Oshizushi
Rice prepared with neta who pressed for a while with the intention of compressing the resulting sushi rice so that the rectangle-shaped and cut into pieces to be easily enjoyed. Oshizushi there is also wrapped in bamboo leaves and pressed for a while, between a few hours until one night. The names oshizushi popular include:

     * Sabazushi containing mackerel
     * Masuzushi
     * Oshizushi Funa fish
     * Sanmazushi and Gozaemonzushi
     * Iwakunizushi
  ^^ That's it for today. And in the next post, I will discuss other Japanese food .. Look forward to .. ^ ^