We love Miso Black Cod. Every time I go to a Japanese restaurant, this is the default dish that we order. While searching for a recipe online, Nobu’s recipe was clearly the most popular one. As always, I cross referenced this recipe with several others to …
If there’s one thing we missed about living at home, it’s the Chinese Winter Melon Soup that our parents used to make. We generally prefer drinking Chinese soup opposed to western soup as it tends to be more light. I don’t think you’ll ever see …
A few years ago, we travelled to South East Asia and took a cooking class in Chiang Mai (Thailand) where we learned to make curry, tom yum soup, and mango sticky rice. As a parting gift, the cooking school gave us a copy of all …
This weekend marks Team J’s 7th anniversary. In order to celebrate, I decided to make a Japanese dinner since J loves all things Japanese. I will be featuring all the dishes that I made on the blog as part of the #JapanWeek series. I’ve been …
Growing up, whenever I ate at a Japanese sushi restaurant, one of the most common items I would order aside from sushi on the menu is a Bento Box with Teriyaki Chicken. It’s like the signature dish at most Japanese restaurants in North America and …
There’s nothing we love more than a perfectly cooked steak. However, cooking a steak can be a daunting task for most people because it’s just hard to know when the steak is cooked to the right doneness! In today’s post, we will share with you …
This is our first year celebrating Valentine’s Day as a married couple. Not that we do anything special on Valentine’s Day to begin with but this year, I felt like going the extra mile. I decided to make the hubby a full course French meal …
Chinese New Years may have passed but that doesn’t mean we still can’t celebrate with Chinese Turnip Cake! I love ordering these at the restaurants and with our never ending obsession with buying daikon to make pickled daikon or Japanese dishes, it seemed to make …
I love Ochazuke… Maybe it’s because I’m always cold regardless of the season but I love how this dish always warms me up. It’s such a simple dish but it tastes so good. For those of you that’s not familiar with Ochazuke, it is a …
Chirashi bowls have become a thing in our household now. Whenever we want to make Japanese food, our default answer is to make Chirashi. I guess the reason we tend to default to this is because: a) We’ve found a pretty good sushi rice recipe …
