Japanese Mochi

Japanese cuisine more than sushi, sashimi, sukiyaki, teriyaki, and tempura. I would suggest three Japanese foods I like that I had never heard before a visit to Japan.

1. Cold Ramen

cold ramen is served in restaurants from May to September. Ramen is boiled and cooled water cold. The ramen is then poured into a bowl without broth. Sometimes, the ramen is served over ice or with ice cubes in it. A sauce with sesame seeds or soy-based sauce is generally used for cold ramen, a little Japanese hot mustard on the side of mixing bowl with the ramen. The ramen is then covered with cold toppings. Cucumbers, eggs and ham or pork are the most common. They are served in long strips, but you can also find other toppings on your cold ramen.

2. Okonomiyaki

Okonomiyaki is a Japanese giant pancake, but this single wafer should not be confused with the pancakes we eat for breakfast in the States. In Japanese, means okonomi what you like and yaki means grilled. Okonomiyaki has two parts: the dough and ingredients added. The dough is made from flour, eggs and shredded cabbage. The ingredients added to the pulp are highly variable and may be one or more of the following: pork, octopus, squid, shrimp, clams, scallops, oysters, vegetables, natto, kimchi, mochi and cheese.

Although okonomiyaki is made and consumed at home, eating in restaurants is much more common. Some restaurants serve okonomiyaki standard. In other words, the server brings you a tray table with an okonomiyaki on it, but most Japanese prefer to eat in their okonomiyaki restaurants specializing in IT and restaurants where you cook yourself. The server will bring you the dough and ingredients. You can mix the dough and add the ingredients, cooking to your table on a hot grill in the middle of your table. You can cook, play with, and shall eat your okonomiyaki.

3. Takoyaki

Takoyaki Word uses the same yaki you can find in okonomiyaki and many other Japanese foods. If you look yaki Japanese in an English dictionary, you will be defined as the roast (for pork), grilled (fish), barbecue (for chicken), baked (for bread), and do (for Meat, fish and chicken) and a whole series of other definitions. As okonomiyaki, takoyaki also uses a paste. Octopus and a few minor ingredients are mixed into the dough. The paste is then poured into a mold that bakes the dough into small balls while also heating. You might think takoyaki octopus miniature muffin, even if they are a bit heavy muffin. Takoyaki, which differs from cold ramen and okonomiyaki, is not a meal but a snack. There are often sold at festivals. Undercooked takoyaki is heavy, pasty, and sits in the stomach like lead. Well cooked, tastes and warm octopus dumpling dough like bread covered with a thick soy sauce as the sauce.

Like Japanese food continues to broadcast around the world, you're more likely to find these three tasty food. I recommend that you try each of them. If you can not find one of the three where you live, you may want to think of coming to Japan for a trip food.