Simple Japanese cooking? I'd love to cook Japanese food and their are asian stores/international market around?!

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Stock soy sauce, sugar, sake and mirin (which is just a sweet sake, so you can substitute sake and sugar) in your shelf all the time because these four ingredients are indispensable for Japanese cooking.

In Japan, we often use ginger too.

The Japanese cooking is most developed in seafood dishes. As for meat, it isn't really impressive, I mean technique-wise.

While it doesn't use so much oil, it uses a lot of salt. So be careful about your salt intake.

Happy cooking!

The key to Japanese cooking is using the right ingredients. It is best to use Japanese ingredients. They can be made in Singapore or Hong Kong but Japanese style is best or the flavours will not be quite right. The following are the essential pantry ingredients needed to make Japanese food:

1. Dashi (stock)
2. Miso
3. Seaweed
4. Mirin
5. Rice Vinegar
6. Wasabi
7. Soy Sauce

Some easy to cook Japanese recipes are tempura, miso soup, yakitori chicken, karaage and niku jyaga.

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For that matter, fresh everything. Keep your cabinet stocked with the right equipment as well. Alot of people now will use dry packets to make their broths and whatnot, I make mine at home and alot of it (you can freeze it in containers). A friend of mine in Japan and I are always exchanging recipes and I'm usually on the phone with her when she places her grocery orders and I'm always delighted to hear the things she keeps in stock.

here are some easy classic: Tonkatsu pork Pork cutlet breaded in panko and shallow fried with sweet tonkatsu sauce (which can be bought already prepared) Gyoza steamed dumpling that can be filled with your choice of meat and Tempura which is batter fried vegetables and meats.

Those are three common non-sushi japanese classics

http://japanesefood.about.com/od/pork/r/tonkatsu.htm tonkatsu pork recipe
http://japanesefood.about.com/od/tempuraappetizer/a/aboutgyoza.htm Gyoza pork dumplings
http://japanesefood.about.com/od/tempura/a/cookingtempura.htm Tempura recipe

Less oil. When you prepared for Japanese food, do remember the 'less-oil' culture.
. For frying like tempura, you have to use fresh oil. Ahh, not going to give you recipes. You can jolly click on the net with plenty infos.You gotta remember, less-oil and use fresh oil. :)

We just had sushi yesterday! You can make sushi rolls with seaweed, rice, salmon, avocado (I like that because it's cool against the wasabi) baby shrimp. I don't remember what else.

Dip in wasabi.

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