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

Menchi-katsu.

Menchi-katsu (メンチカツ) is a ground meat cutlet, and is one of a Yousyoku (Japanese cuisine that is influenced from Western cooking). Menchi and katsu are phonologically modified versions of the words "mince" and "cutlet".

Served with Japanese Worcestershire sauce or tonkatsu sauce, and sliced cabbage. Also Menchi-katsu is applied for a filling of sandwiches.

reference: wikipedia
Japansekook workshop

Tulip chicken.

One of a style of Japanese fried chickens that is called "tulip".
Japanese kids likes this tulip chicken.

Cut the tip of chicken wing tip. Then pushing up the meat from the tip bottom, and wrap it on the top to make a tulip shape.

The flavor of chickens are sometimes karaage, but sometimes western style.
The point of this Japanese dish is "tulip shape".

Tulip bento is also possible as you see.