Tendon vs Tempura: What is the Difference?
Like the Japanese breaded deep-fried pork cutlet “Tonkatsu (豚カツ)“, “Tempura (天ぷら)” can be used as the main ingredient in the Japanese rice bowl dish “Donburi (丼)“. You may know that the bowl of cooked...
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Rice bowl dishes / Traditional Japanese foods / Trivia
by Tomo · Published May 23, 2019 · Last modified January 4, 2021
Like the Japanese breaded deep-fried pork cutlet “Tonkatsu (豚カツ)“, “Tempura (天ぷら)” can be used as the main ingredient in the Japanese rice bowl dish “Donburi (丼)“. You may know that the bowl of cooked...
Traditionally, we Japanese like snack foods made with squid. Especially there are many variations of dried squid snacks in Japan, which include these 3 varieties. Meanwhile, when it comes to Japanese fried squid snacks, “Ika...
Foods / Junk foods / Product introduction / Trivia
by Tomo · Published December 22, 2018 · Last modified March 7, 2020
Tempura is a traditional Japanese food made by deep-frying one piece of ingredient covered in the batter of hen’s eggs and wheat flour. It seems that the scraps of leftover deep-fried Tempura batter generated...
Foods / Traditional Japanese foods / Trivia
by Tomo · Published November 18, 2018 · Last modified March 31, 2020
“Agemono (揚げ物)” is the generic name for Japanese deep-fried foods, such as “Tempura (天ぷら)”, “Karaage (唐揚げ)”, “Kakiage (かき揚げ)”, “Katsu (カツ)”, and “Furai (フライ)”. Many overseas people may have heard of these popular Japanese dishes,...
Made by coating one piece of ingredient with flour batter and deep-frying it in plenty of oil, “Tempura (天ぷら)” is a food that represents Japan. But do you know there are Japanese snacks produced in...
Foods / Traditional Japanese foods / Trivia
by Tomo · Published May 17, 2018 · Last modified October 17, 2020
When it comes to traditional dishes that represent Japanese cuisine, many people will be reminded of “Tempura (天ぷら)”. As you know, the Japanese food is a deep-fried thing covered in a batter which is...
Delicacies / Product introduction / Snacks
by Tomo · Published March 11, 2018 · Last modified August 7, 2020
As you may know, “Otsumami (おつまみ)” is the Japanese word for the finger foods and nibbles eaten with alcoholic drinks, and the representative example includes Edamame, cold tofu “Hiyayakko (冷奴)”, “Chiitara (チータラ)“, and Kaki...
How-to / Recipes / Seasoning and Condiment / Traditional Japanese foods
by Tomo · Published December 16, 2017 · Last modified August 21, 2020
Tempura is one of the most famous Japanese foods in the world and is made by coating one piece of ingredient with flour batter and deep-frying it in plenty of oil, and the typical...
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I'm Tomo, a Japanese blogger living in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. For the purpose of enriching your life, I would like to introduce things about Japan on this blog, especially unique Japanese products, cooking recipes, cultures, and facts and trivia.