An amazing looking ice cream in our local Japanese restaurant. All of us chose to have the special ice-cream dessert, that is literally a triple-decker ice cream dish that kind of appears to be like akin to a volcano or a multi-coloured X-mas tree. The top layer is red bean ice cream, followed next to […]
Continue ReadingI had this Japanese Fish shaped ice-cream the other day. Its a delicate crunchy wafer molded in a fish profile. Now being Japanese it could actually be fish ice cream but it is not. Inside is white vanilla icecream along with a layer of adzuki beans along at the base of it. Its really good. […]
Continue ReadingYes, I know there are four ice cream containers but I can not remember what the 4th one was. Any way the three Japanese ice cream flavours are Melon Ice Cream, Cheese Ice Cream, Dark Sugar Ice Cream. Hang on I do know the flavour of the fourth Japanese ice cream, it is just pain […]
Continue ReadingNo Mochi Ice Cream recipe today. This wonderful looking ice cream is from the Japanese company called Glico. It is a huge soft serve with hard chocolate on it. I like how they made to be all striped by the chocolate running down the ice cream grooves. Nothing special about the ice cream taste, it […]
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For supper tonight, my wife made two types of tempura: natto tempura and kakiage. This time, the kakiage is a combination of ham, carrot, and potato.今日の夕飯には妻が２種類の天ぷらを作りました。納豆の天ぷらとかき揚げです。今回、かき揚げはハムとニンジンとジャガイモの組み合わせです。We had the tempura with hiyamugi. As I mentioned previously, hiyamugi is thinner than udon and thicker than somen.天ぷらを冷麦と一緒に食べました。前に言ったように、冷麦はうどんより細く、素麺より太いです。My wife told me that she made five pieces of natto tempura […]
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As I said previously, kounago refers to young ikanago (Ammodytes personatus Girard). Today, I found this kakiage sold for 80 yen per piece at the local supermarket I frequent, and I just had to buy four pieces for my family. The combination of kounago and sweet potato sounded so appetizing to me!前に言ったように、小女子とはイカナゴの幼魚のことです。今日、私がよく行く地元のスーパーで一つ80円で売っていたので、家族用に４つ買ってしまいました。小女子とサツマイモの組み合わせはとても美味そうに思えたので。
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For supper last night, my wife made three types of tempura: Fukinoto tempura, sweet potato tempura, and kounago kakiage.“Kounago” refers to young ikanago (Ammodytes personatus Girard).昨日の夕飯には、妻が３種類の天ぷらを作りました。ふきのとうの天ぷら、サツマイモの天ぷら、小女子（こうなご）のかき揚げです。小女子（こうなご）とは、イカナゴの稚魚のことです。Kounago:小女子：Fukinoto and sweet potato tempura:ふきのとうとサツマイモの天ぷら：My wife likes to add some salt to the tempura batter when making sweet potato tempura, so that it can be eaten without tentsuyu (tempura dipping […]
Continue ReadingA Japanese cafe with a huge, huge range of soft serve ice cream. The flavours? Try vanilla, blueberry, vanilla & green tea, banana, caramel, Hokkaido melon, mikan orange peel, vanilla & chocolate, vanilla & strawberry, chestnut, black sesame and sweet potato … few!! And not in the photo – cappuccino, tofu, peanut and grape. The […]
Continue ReadingBack to our real favourite style of Japanese Ice Cream, soft cream. We like it much better than regular ‘hard’ ice cream. This is a yummy combination of Japanese Matcha ice cream (Green Tea of course, and green in colour) and Taro ice cream (I think it is called sato potato and it was a […]
Continue ReadingThis Japanese Ice Cream is like your own portable soft serve machine 🙂 . As you can tell by the photo it is a little flexi bag thingy full of soft serve ice cream that you squeeze out into a bowl or cone .. or even just squeeze and suck it out if you can’t […]
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