Full of authentic recipes by a a famous Japanese chef. Picked it up while walking around j town in my city and it became my favourite recipe book.
Want to make okonomiyaki? Choose whether you want Tokyo style or Hiroshima style, there's multiple.
Want to make ramen? It'll teach you everything you need to know from how to prepare the broth and marinate the eggs to the toppings you want depending on the ramen you wanna make.
How about tempura? Not only will it teach you how to make it, It'll even teach you an old school method on how to measure the oil temp without a thermometer
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Just added it to my Amazon cart. Thanks for the recommendation!
I really love this book! The ramens are amazing, as are the udon and gyoza. The section on rice bowls are a favorite of mine. I often cheat using store bought or powdered bullion, but the recipes are spot on. I should take another look and make something new!
I’m hoping there’s a section on nabemono. OP?
It’s one of those cookbooks that I find myself sometimes just sitting down and reading.
This and Korean Temple Cooking by Hoo Nam Seelmann**.**
Great book. Very good curry and okonomiyaki recipes in here
Agreed. Wholeheartedly.
I use it all the time!!!
Indeed, it’s my souvenir from my last trip to Kinokuniya NYC. The curry recipe is very good!
Japanese Soul Cooking is my first Japanese cookbook, and still my favourite. Great intro to almost all the popular categories of Japanese cuisine like tempura, ramen, katsu, curries, udon, soba, yoshoku, etc., with about half a dozen recipes in each, and lots of explanations to help a beginner understand how Japanese cooking works, making it really approachable.
Harris used to run one of the best English blogs on Japanese cooking before becoming an author with Ono.
Highly recommend everything he publishes!
It’s a fantastic book.
We made the retro curry for a Japanese exchange student a few years ago and he said it was exactly like his mom’s which would already be a great compliment. It was made even better because his mom is a culinary instructor at a university in Tokyo.