Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts

Friday, July 15, 2016

[Cook] Shibuya Toast



SHIBUYA TOAST




INGREDIENTS

Bread1 loaf uncut
Butter3 tbsp
Sugar2 tsp
Honeyas needed

STEPS

- Cut approximately 2 inch thick slice of bread. 
- Divide it into 9 cubes, cut almost till the end. The end result is 9 bread cubes just barely attached to each other.
- Melt butter using double boil method. ( put butter into bowl and place the bowl on top of boiling water. Indirect heating method often used in melting chocolate.)
- Add in sugar and stir well to combine. Add honey to taste
- Place cubed bread slice on oven safe plate/tray.
- Pour butter mixture over bread. Pour enough to coat top of bread. It might be too overpowering if you put all the mixture.
- Place into oven and toast at 180 degrees for 5 mins or until nicely browned.
- Remove from oven and top with desired toppings. (here I used ice-cream and palm sugar syrup.)


End result is a quick and easy dessert. Toast is nice and cruncy with sweet and wonderful caramelized surface. Cold soft ice-cream fits perfectly well with the crunchy hot toast.

An alternate way to cube the bread is to cut of the top, then cut the INSIDE of the loaf into cubes leaving the crust making a simple bread bowl. The cubed insides of the bread is then mixed with the butter and toast both the crust and cubes in the oven.
When removed from the oven simply toss all the cubes back in the bowl and add topping. This is just another way to present it.

 


Tuesday, January 26, 2016

[Cook] Dashi Stock

A basic Japanese stock that serves as the basis of other Japanese recipes.
I got the Dashi stock recipe from Alton Brown
The main defining characteristics of a Dashi stock are umami flavor from the seaweed or Kombu as well as a fishy flavor from either fish or bonito.
The easiest thing to make from this is simply to make miso soup.
Just take the stock and add miso paste and boom we have miso soup.

INGREDIENTS
ItemRecipe
Kombu~8x2 inch wide, cut into slices
Bonito flakes2 cup
STEPS
- Wipe kombu with damp cloth.
- Cut into slices and soak in approximately 2 litres of water for 30mins. ( soak longer for more flavor)
- Put kombu and water in pot and heat until almost boiling.
- Remove kombu just before boil, boiling kombu can make stock bitter.
- After boiling reduce to simmer and dump in bonito flakes.
- simmer for 30mins, then drain and filter out flakes
- Basic Dashi stock is done!
 
*** These are cooking notes/experiments and are not perfect recipes.

Sunday, June 1, 2014

[Food] Manmaru Udon @ MidValley

Manmaru Udon, a delightful udon place in Midvalley serves some very excellent udons. Each bowl averaging around RM20, was delicious. My favourite, the Onsen Tamago udon, partially cooked egg on al dente udon served with garlic, seaweed and chicken teriyaki. The flavors were well balanced and not over-powering. A clean and distinct flavor from each ingredient combined to make a wonderful udon meal.

Duck breast udon. Sweet, flavorful soup with high quality duck meat.

Nice Niku udon but unfortunately only average and certainly was the least inspiring of the 3.

Onsen Tamago Udon. The highlight of the night, highly recommended!

Address 
Manmaru Udon, Midvalley

Hours 
Lunch & Dinner 


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Monday, February 3, 2014

[Food] Tokyo Kitchen @ One City




I visited the newly open One City recently. It looks promising. With a nice view ( kinda? housing view? ) and interesting open rooftop. Not many shops were opened yet, so I settled for Tokyo Kitchen.



 The deco was nice but unfortunately not the same for the food. Looks like it was run only by foreign workers, the food was bad and not what I expected for the steep price. Salmon sushi tasted like it was from Jusco. I really hope this was because they have only recently opened. It would be a shame as there were interesting items on the menu but if the quality remains as this low level I doubt it would survive. Plenty of other Jap restaurants are also opening nearby and even one on the rooftop level which has prices lower than this.







Address 
One City, USJ


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