Japanese cooking by a Japanese in the Netherlands. Japanse recepten door een Japanse in Nederland. http://tokyodoll.web.fc2.com/
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Gyoza
Gyoza was originally from China known as Jiaozi. But now a days it is populer localised food in Japan.
This is a kind of dumpling.
Gyoza is typically consist of a ground meat and vegetable filling wrapped into a thinly rolled piece of dough, which is then sealed by pressing the edges together or by crimping.
Japanese Gyoza is cooked by baking on the frying pan. 10 minutes bake and add a little bit of water, and put a lid on the frying pan for steaming in 5 minutes.
Served with dipping sauce seasoned with soya sauce, rice vinegar and red chili pepper-flavored sesame oil. This dipping sauce is Japanese style.
Japanese people love to eat Gyoza with drinking beer.
Kyaraben (character bento) workshop
Kyaraben, a shortened form of character bento, is a very popular bento style in Japan which features food decorated to look like Anime or Kawaii characters. At the workshop you learn how to make authentic Kyaraben and the result you can take home. More info http://tokyodoll.web.fc2.com/workshop/bentoworkshop.html