Japanese Food-curios

One of the most interesting thing about living with a person of different nationality is the food stuff their family sent. lol. Well, actually when I was living together with 2 of my Malaysian Indian friends, their food parcels were filled with loads of stuff that I haven't seen before. But it's a whole new experience when you don't exactly know what kind of food it is because it's written in Japanese. :-P And then come in my Japanese language translator --> Yumi! Once she says out the Japanese word, I'd know it....because my Japanese language is limited to its food items only. :-) She'd tell you the same too ;-P

There's a lot of food curios in our ladder. This is one; which Yumi 'cooked' after the Karaoke Night held by my class to raise money for the Graduates' Night --> It's some sort of tradition that 4th Years have to organise it for the 6th Years... ^_^

ODEN!

Japan's really amazing with all their extremely convenient packaging [you just dunk the bag in to a boiling pot of water!] and when you remove the content, it could really pass off as something you cook yourself! 

 See? It must be great to be a student in Japan...cramming for exams and still getting a semblance of real food as opposed to my poor diet of instant noodles during exam period. =_=

 There's fish cakes filled with something. An egg. Some sort of squid-ball lookalike [but it's not squid]. Konyakku. A ribbon of seaweed. A slice of daikon. I love the soup. It's actually really nice. Even Yumi was surprised. Only the egg was, well, doesn't taste like egg....

This is pickled radish that Yumi got from the Korean-Japanese shop in Prague.....I suppose only a Japanese @ Korean would pick this up....so I'd classify it under this. :-P Don't like this....a bit too sourish pickl-ish for me.

Japanese Curry with Rice

 

Japanese Curry is one of the food that just has to be on the list of every lazy student's list. 

1. It's easy to make
2. It doesn't take long
3. It's delicious regardless of what you add to it
4. It's filling
5. You usually would have leftovers, so you are pretty much settled for the next few meals! :-D

Ingredients:

1. Japanese Curry Roux [Any brand, any kind]
2. Any vegetables [I like potatoes, carrots, cauliflower and onions]
3. Meat eg. chicken, beef. Fish is not recommended because they tend to melt [For this time around, I made mine vegetarian]

 Methods:

1.  Lightly fry your meat and vegetables in a pot
2. Add water to your pot till it covers all the ingredients
3. Bring to boil; then break off a few pieces of curry roux and add to pot
4. Stir the roux around; let it melt
5. If at this point, you feel the curry is too soup-like, add more roux! :-D
6. It's done when the vegetables esp. potatoes are cooked 
7. Other than rice, it can be eaten with spaghetti, noodles, etc.

Verdict: 
There just couldn't be anything that I can imagine would go wrong in cooking this at all.