Pirate The One Piece theme Cake

The One Piece is a popular Japanese shōnen manga. The true fans of The One Piece came to me and gave me a opportunity to look up this Manga and created this piece of art.
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10 Mins Pickled Cucumber

Harvested so many cucumbers from my garden just now!
I decided to do a quick pickle refreshing dish for the late summer.

Recipe
1 Cucumber, thinly sliced
pinch of salt
3 Tsp white vinegar
2 Tsp white sugar

1)Sprinkle a pinch of salt on the sliced cucumber in a bowl
2)After 3 mins, discard the extra cucumber juice
3)Add vinegar and sugar, mix well and cover with a plastic wrap
4)Refrigerate for at least 5 mins, serve cold.
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Gyudon Japanese beef rice

Gyudon means beef and rice in Japanese,
it is made with a sweet onion sauce,
such a easy comfort food to make in winter
Click the txt below to read more about this recipe =)

Ingredients:
(a)
Rice 1.5 cup
Water 3 cup
(b)
Soy sauce 3 Tsp
Memmi sauce 3 Tsp (Japanese noodles base sauce)
Sugar 1 Tsp
White pepper a pinch
Water 3 Tsp
(c)
Onion 1 large, sliced
Oil 1 Tsp
egg 1, beaten (optional)
Beef tenderloin 10-15 slices, thinly sliced
sesame seed and red pickled ginger (optional)

1- Cook the rice (a) in a rice cooker (if you don't have a rice cooker at home, you can use a non stick pot to cook it on mid heat first, turn to low after it boiled)
2- Mix everything (b) in a small bowl or cup, set aside
3- Satee the onion with the oil, use high heat, stir often
4- Add beef and the (b) sauce into the onion mixture, turn off after 1 min(the beef doesn't need to cook through)
5- When the rice is ready, pour the egg, the beef and everything on the rice in the rice cooker, press cook again (put it on low heat for 5min if you cook the rice with a pot)
6- Garnish your beef and rice dish with sesame seed and red pickled ginger

Enjoy!

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Cake lovers heaven

If you are a cake lover, you must visit this “Food Show” at Shibuya station.
It has all kind of cake shops inside of it; both Japanese and Western cake are available.
The price of each piece is between $2 CAD to $200 CAD.
You will fall in love with the packing too.
Local would usually buy them as a gift.
If you pass by the station, I would strongly recommend you to spend 15 mins.

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Odaiba Hot grill fried noodles

Odaiba is about 30min from downtown Tokyo by train.
It is a small island located at Tokyo coast; many couples like to spend their weekend there.
We went there mainly for the 70s look of Japan.
There are 3 shopping mall connected together by the board walk.
The 70s street look of Japan is located just above the “Little Hong Kong” floor of the “Deck”.
There are also 100 yen shops and other department stores around the area.


When you get tried from all the shopping,
You can find the food court at one of the mall basement area for some local snack.
The portion of this meal is enough for mom and I.
It is fried noodles on a hot grill, including one side and one drink. (we got fried chicken skewer and yogurt drink)
It was 950 yen, approximately $10 CAD.




If you keep walking on the board walk, you will find this Takoyaki vender.
They sells all kind of Tokoyaki (Grilled Octopus balls).
They top it with some fish flakes.
The fish flakes dance on the Tokoyaki because of the steam,
it is fun to watch them and more fun to eat them.
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Underground food court

It is way too hot to walk around on the street during summer time in Japan.
We have found an underground food court right at Shinjuku station.
There are many kind restaurants, from sushi place, to tempura place, to steak house to noodles place; they are all inside the underground food court.



The bean curd udon soup only cost me 450 yen, which is about $5 CAD.
When I order this, I pointed at the food display model and bang! They guessed what I wanted.
Mom chose something more flavorful, she ordered a stew beef undo soup.
It is only 500 yen ($5.25 CAD).


=p hehe, I just want to show you this last picture to make you starve for this.
Seafood tempura don!
Don in Japanese means rice.
They lightly fried all the seafood (shrimp, fish of all kind and veggie) and top it on a bowl of hot steam rice, drizzle some secret soy sauce with the sizzle sound. LOVE IT!
This set with clam miso soup cost 2200 yen ($25 CAD).

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Traditional Japanese Breakfast

I always admire the art of Japanese food.
They believe food has it own nature spirit.
To respect the spirit and customers, they would give the food its best taste and the best presentation.
This traditional Japanese breakfast is simple.
Yet, many chefs spent hours and hours in the kitchen to prepare this meal.
From the way they cut the vegetables to pickles to plating, the chiefs make this meal magical to us.
The breakfast set (from top left): Pouched hot spring egg, Boiled fresh vegetables, Local grown cabbage salad, Pickled seaweed and Steamed white fishes. Served with steamed rice, Mushroom miso soup and Grinded cinnamon vine paste.


What really is pouched hot spring egg?
It is basically just pouched egg. The only different is that the egg is cooked in hot spring. The temperature of the hot spring can easy achieve the perfect cooking process for the egg. Allow the egg yoke to remain soft and smooth.

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