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Breaded, deep fried crispy pork cutlet is one of the top 10 favourite dishes among Japanese people. Quite easy to make and served with a sweet fruity sauce, it is so delicious. Tonkatsu is also the main ingredient in Katsudon.

Tonkatsu (Japanese Pork Schnitzel)

This is a quick stir fry dish that originated in China. Beef, green pepper (capsicum) and bamboo shoots are cut into thin strips and cooked in soy flavoured sauce with a touch of oyster sauce.

Chinjao Rosu (Japanese Stir Fry with Beef and Bamboo Shoots)

When bite size pieces of deep fried fish are marinated in slightly sweet vinegar and soy based sauce with plenty of shredded vegetables, it transforms the fish into something totally different.

Nanbanzuke (Marinated Fried Fish)

Yakibuta (Braised Pork) is a large piece of pork cooked in soy sauce flavoured sauce over a couple of hours. It takes time to cook but it is quite simple to make. The meat is so tender and flavoursome.

Yakibuta (Braised Pork – Japanese Char Siu)

Hiyashi chūka is made with cold Chinese-style egg noodles, with sweet vinegar sauce and topped with vegetables, egg and ham. It is a great dish to have on a hot summer day.

Hiyashi Chūka (Cold Ramen)

A very popular Chinese dish, Happosai (Combination Stir Fry) is not modified very much from the original Chinese version. It is made with lots of vegetables, meat and seafood coated with a thick flavoursome sauce.

Happosai (Combination Stir Fry)

Katsu-don (カツ丼), is a very filling main dish. A bowl of rice topped with tonkatsu (deep fried crumbed pork cutlet), onion and beaten egg, cooked in dashi with sweet soy sauce.

Katsu-don (Pork Cutlet and Egg on Rice)

Mabodofu (麻婆豆腐) is the Japanese name for “Mapo Tofu”, which is a Chinese dish from Sichuan province. Tofu and ground meat are stir fried with a flavoursome sauce. But the flavour of mabodofu is yet again modified to suit to the Japanese palette and not as spicy as the Chinese version of mapo tofu.

Mābōdōfu (Mapo Tofu)

Super easy meal with sashimi quality tuna is one of my favourites. Maguro no Zuke-don (Marinated Tuna on Rice) requires no cooking. Just marinate tuna slices and place them on the cooked rice, topped with garnish.

Maguro no Zuke-don (Marinated Tuna on Rice)

The flavour of Simmered Chicken and Vegetables, Chikuzenni, is a typical combination of dashi, soy sauce, mirin, sake and sugar but the ingredients are stir-fried first so the dish is much richer than other simmered dishes.

Chikuzenni (Simmered Chicken and Vegetables) Two Ways

Oden is a kind of hot pot consisting of daikon, potatoes, eggs, Konbu (kelp), konnyaku, and different types of fish cakes, simmered in lightly flavoured soup stock.

Oden (Simmered One Pot Dish)

Sweet and sour pork usually uses cubed pork but this is a meatball version of sweet and sour pork. Onions in the meatballs give the meat more flavour and the sauce is not as strong as original Chinese sweet and sour pork.

Sweet and Sour Pork Meatballs (Subuta)

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