What do you know about the five must-eat delicacies in Japan?
Japanese sushi: Sushi is a traditional Japanese food that can be eaten as a snack or as a meal.
The main ingredient of sushi is rice, and the main cooking process is boiling.
How to eat: When eating sushi, you should match the condiments according to the type of sushi. When eating roll sushi, you need to dip it in thick soy sauce and apply appropriate green mustard; when eating nigiri sushi, you cannot dip it in soy sauce, otherwise you will not be able to taste its original taste.
.In addition to strong soy sauce and green mustard, sushi also has a more important seasoning - vinegar and ginger.
A slice of vinegared ginger not only helps with seasoning, but makes sushi even more refreshing and delicious!
Japanese sashimi: Sashimi (Japanese pronunciation "kill sago") is made by processing fresh fish, shellfish, beef and other raw materials according to appropriate knife techniques, and is served with soy sauce and wasabi puree (Japanese pronunciation "Wasabi")
A raw food dish with prepared sauce.
In the past, when fishermen in Hokkaido, Japan served sashimi, since it was difficult to identify the type of fish fillets after peeling, they would often take some fish skin and stab the fish fillets with bamboo skewers to facilitate identification.
The bamboo sticks and fish skin stabbed on the fish fillets were originally called "sashimi". Although this method was no longer used later, the name "sashimi" was still retained.
Japanese sashimi is called sashimi, which is generally made with fresh sea fish and sea shells, dipped in soy sauce, wasabi, etc. It is the lightest dish in Japanese cuisine and is also one of the representative dishes.
Kobe Beef: Wagyu Beef is the most famous beef in the world.
As a specialty of Japan, Kobe beef often appears at banquets for state guests.
The fragrant but not greasy, melt-in-your-mouth feeling makes people unable to stop eating.
It was banned by the Emperor of Japan and sold for "sky-high prices".
However, if you know that Kobe beef grew up drinking beer and enjoying massages, you will not wonder where this delicious taste comes from.
Japanese cuisine: Japanese cuisine is "Japanese food", which originated from the Japanese archipelago and gradually developed into a cuisine with unique Japanese characteristics.
Japanese food requires natural color, delicious taste, various shapes and excellent utensils.
Moreover, the materials and preparations emphasize the sense of season.
Japanese food is food that is tasted with the eyes, more accurately, it should be tasted with the five senses.
Namely: eye-visual tasting; nose-smell tasting; ears-hearing tasting; touch-tactile tasting; and of course tongue-taste tasting.
Then when it comes to what flavors can be tasted, the first is the five flavors.
The five flavors may be the same as in Chinese food, sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty.
And the food also needs to have five colors, black, white, red, yellow and green.
After the five colors are complete, nutritional balance needs to be considered.
Japanese cuisine consists of five basic cooking methods: cutting, boiling, grilling, steaming, and frying.
Compared with Chinese cuisine, the cooking methods of Japanese cuisine are relatively simple.
Japanese cuisine is based on five flavors (actually six flavors, the sixth flavor is light. Light requires that the original flavor of the raw materials can be fully drawn out.), five colors, and five methods, and is tasted with the five senses.
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Japanese ramen: Japanese ramen is actually a food that spread to Japan from China. In fact, among the three major noodles in Japan (udon, ramen, and soba), only soba can barely be regarded as Japanese.
The traditional noodle dish, and the well-known ramen in Chinese cuisine, is the original version of today's Japanese ramen. The earliest historical record of ramen in Japan was in 1704, when a historian named Anjikaku
The book "Shun Shui Zhu Shi Tan Qi" mentions Chinese noodles, and Mito Huangmen once ate noodles similar to udon noodles.