Oden

Oden (おでん) is a Japanese dish consisting of several ingredients such as boiled eggs, daikon, konbu and fish cakes stewed in a dashi broth. Ingredients vary according to region and between each household. Japanese mustard is often used as a condiment. Oden is one of a popular home cooked dish, and is a popular menu in convenience stores. In Akihabara, an unusual product 'Oden kan' (canned Oden) is available at vending machines.

The photo is my home made oden that mainly includes,

Egg
Daikon
Konbu
Several fish cakes
Potato
Fried tofu

To make Oden in NL, we can get most ingredients from Toko.

Karē don (A bowl of rice with Japanese curry on top)

You may know Japanese curry rice. But Karē don (カレー丼. A bowl of rice with Japanese curry on top.) is a bit different from typical Japanese curry.

This dish is mainly served in Soba restaurant. They make curry sauce, thickened and flavored with mentsuyu (soup for soba or udon. Fish bouillon and soy sauce based) and served on top of a bowl of rice.

This dish was invented by the owner of soba restaurant in 1909 to take customers back from Youshoku restaurants. This curry rice bowl may be more Japanese flavor than typical Japanese curry.

Basic ingredients

Bring to boil mentsuyu (soup for soba or udon) with adding meats and spring onions. Add curry powder and thicken the broth with starch.

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Dinner for guests.

Homemade dinner for our guests.

- Beef with tofu seasoned with soy sauce, sake, mirin and dashi.
- Miso-based teriyaki tuna.
- Cucumber seasoned with ginger, konbu dashi and lemmon.
- Hijiki (Japanese seaweed) with carrot and lotus roots.
- Paprika with sesame miso mayonnaise.
- Rice.
- Onion and autumn mushroom miso soup.
- Apple and orange.

How to get ingredients:
- Sake, mirin, dashi, konbu, Japanese rice and miso :Toko (Asian shop) or natural food shop.
- Hijiki: natural food shop.
- Lotus roots: Toko.
- Other vegetables, tofu, tuna and beef: Albert Heijn (typical supermarket nearby)

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Rilakkuma burger (kyarapan)

Kyaraben (character bento) is one of a famous Japanese lunch box style, and is known nowadays in the world. Since kyaraben booming, several derivation of kyaraben are appeared in Japan.
Karapan, a short form of "character pan" is also getting popular. Pan means bread in Japanese that is based on Portuguese word Pão. As you can see the photo, kyarapan is making character by breads instead of rice in kyaraben. Cooks bake character shaped bread by themselves. And it's also possible to use the bread bought from a shop.

Following is the easy way to make Rilakkuma burger.



Get ingredients from Albert Heijn.



Place ingredients.



Make face by black olive and cheese on a bun, and place on a burger.

Kyaraben workshop; http://tokyodoll.web.fc2.com/workshop/bentoworkshop.html

Takoyaki

Takoyaki is a baked ball of wheat flour of three to five centimeters in diameter, into which a small piece of octopus is put, a dish originated in Osaka, Japan. Filled with diced octopus (tako), tempura scraps (tenkasu), pickled ginger (benishouga), and spring onion.Then finished with Japanese braun sauce, mayonnaise, green laver (aonori) and dried bonito flakes (katsuobushi). Takoyaki is sold in many places such as traditional festival, street, supermarkets and convenience stores in Japan.

ingredients

Toppings

special tools for takoyaki

In Japan bestaat een soort poffertjes genaamd Takoyaki, waarvan octopus (=tako) een van de essentiële ingrediënten is. De smaak ervan is volkomen anders dan die van Nederlandse poffertjes.
Meer info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takoyaki
Takoyaki workshop in Nederland: http://tokyodoll.web.fc2.com/workshop/japansekookworkshop.html