This tonkatsu recipe makes the most tender, juicy Japanese deep fried pork cutlet you’ll ever taste. This simple but revered deep-fried Japanese pork dish has an amazing crunch from the golden panko crust, melt-in-your-mouth moist pork, and the tangy taste of the tonkatsu sauce. Our tonkatsu recipe makes the most tender, melt-in-your-mouth, deep-fried pork cutlet … Read more
This homemade furikake recipe with Southeast Asian flavours makes the umami-rich Japanese rice seasoning with a tropical Southeast Asian twist. Traditional furikake ingredients such as white and black sesame seeds and toasted nori are combined with dried Southeast Asian spices and herb powders. It’s completely addictive. I appreciate that my homemade furikake recipe with Southeast … Read more
These Asian pantry essentials are the must-have Asian ingredients you need to stock in your pantry for cooking Asian food. Our recommended Asian essentials include everything from fish sauce, soy sauce and hoisin sauce to ingredients we love such as Chinkiang vinegar and Doubanjiang. We use these sauces, syrups, vinegars, and condiments nearly every day … Read more
This butaniku no kakuni recipe makes a Japanese slow simmered pork belly dish that for us has long been a highlight of menus at Japanese izakayas. While I’ve been making a simpler version of this for years, this unctuous iteration comes from Japanophile Jane Lawson’s cookbook Zenbu Zen – Finding Food, Culture and Balance in … Read more
You can take a culinary trip around the world, eating out in Melbourne – from Europe to Asia and back again – and that’s virtually what we did on our recent Melbourne foodie trip, eating everything from Italian, French and British to Japanese, Thai and regional Chinese. To Australians, this kind of eating isn’t unusual. … Read more