JAPAN S NATIONAL DISHES SUKI YAKI v Suki

JAPAN'S NATIONAL DISHES

SUKI YAKI v Suki Yaki - thinly sliced beef, green onions, mushrooms, thin noodles and tofu slowly boiled in a large iron skillet before you. These ingredients are cooked in a mixture of soy sauce, cooking wine and a little sugar. You are given a special dish of raw egg to cool the pieces bitch-yaki before use. Using sticks, you remove anything that is on your side of the pan, and eat pre maknuv the egg.

SASHIMI v Sashimi (sashimi) - very fresh raw fish. Served on sliced white radish, shabby grated, with a saucer of soy sauce and spicy horseradish (wasabi). First fish dunks in soy sauce with horseradish and then used.

SUSHI v Sushi (sushi) - in general, are small wedges sushi rice, which put thinly sliced piece of fish. Lightly seasoned rice vinegar, salt and sugar. There are three main types of sushi: nigiri, chirashi and poppies.

AUDEN v Auden - often sold by street vendors at festivals, parks, etc. It's vegetables, octopus or eggs boiled in soy fish broth.

MISO SHIRU v Miso Shiru - soup Misa. A thick soup containing tofu (soybean curd), fungi, or other pieces of food in a soup seasoned with soy paste. Pieces are taken out of the bowl, and the soup is drunk without using a spoon.

GREEN TEA v Green tea Japan is the main beverage, of course, tea. He accompanies any Japanese meal from everyday dinner to a celebratory feast. Japanese drink mostly green tea, that causes a considerable diversity of its varieties. However, black tea Japanese also drink, but it does not distinguish individual classes and call the title co-cha.

SAKE v Of course, tea - not only drink the Japanese. They do not mind a drink and something stronger, such as the well-known sake. Despite the fact that the drink is made only of rice and water, the number of variations of it over a thousand. In every corner of Japan, you can try the unique sake different from the other taste, density and strength. By the way, nothing called Sake rice vodka, it is more like a wine, but its strength does not exceed 19 degrees.

SHIOTA v Lovers of more liquor Japanese can offer Ciotat. Its strength is 2530 degrees. Recently, this drink is produced from potatoes or grain, is becoming a serious competitor to traditional sake, as much cheaper and, unlike sake, do not contain sugar.

BEER v Beer - drink that the Japanese also are not paid attention. Despite the lack of a beer belly, they readily consume it. Beer appeared in Japan recently, somewhere in the second half of the 19 th century, however, the largest Japanese brewery "Kirin" now ranks fourth in the world in production of the drink. But, nevertheless, the most expensive are imported beers.