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Japanese cooking

Rice, dashi, restraint. Every flavor earns its place. Ramen with honest broth, vegetables cooked like they matter, fish treated with reverence.

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Salads

Chuka Seaweed Salad

A classic Japanese seaweed salad made from chuka (wakame-style sea greens) dressed in a light sesame-soy vinaigrette with chili and ginger. Silky, refreshing, and packed with minerals — the perfect appetizer alongside sushi or miso soup.

10 min45 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌱Vegan

★4.6

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Appetizers and Sandwiches

Crispy Fried Tofu

Japanese golden fried tofu with a crispy cornstarch crust, served with a simple soy-garlic sauce, sesame seeds, and green onion. A dish that wins over even tofu skeptics.

30 min165 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🥑Keto

★4.5

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Appetizers and Sandwiches

Edamame

Young green soybeans boiled in salted water — a classic Japanese snack. Simple, nutritious and delicious as is, or elevated with sesame oil, chili flakes and soy sauce.

15 min180 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌱Vegan

★4.8

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Beverages

Hojicha Latte

Hojicha is roasted Japanese green tea — reddish-brown, nutty, and faintly caramelised, with a fraction of the caffeine of matcha or coffee. When whisked into a paste and combined with hot frothed milk, it becomes one of the most comforting drinks in the Japanese tea repertoire. This version works hot or iced. The water temperature is the only thing that needs attention.

10 min110 kcal1 serves

⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

★4.7

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Beverages

Iced Matcha Latte

Three ingredients and five minutes. Matcha whisked with a small amount of hot — not boiling — water, poured over ice and milk. The result depends almost entirely on the quality of the matcha powder: good ceremonial-grade matcha is sweet, grassy, and vivid green; cheap culinary-grade matcha is dull, bitter, and yellow-green. Buy the better one. The milk is a matter of preference — oat milk is naturally sweet and works well, whole dairy milk is richer, almond milk is thinner. There is no wrong answer.

10 min95 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

★4.9

Japanese Cheesecake (Cotton Soufflé Cheesecake)

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Sweet Dishes

Japanese Cheesecake (Cotton Soufflé Cheesecake)

A cloud-light hybrid of cheesecake and soufflé: cream cheese melted into a smooth batter, egg whites whipped to soft peaks and folded in, baked in a water bath at low temperature. The result jiggles when you shake the tin. Not sweet in the American sense — lightly tangy from cream cheese with a breath of lemon. First created at the Plaza Hotel in Osaka. Best warm from the oven for the jiggle, or chilled overnight when it becomes denser and creamier.

100 min260 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

★4.7

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Meat Dishes

Japanese Curry Rice

Japan's most beloved comfort food — tender beef, potato, carrot, and onion slow-braised in a rich, mildly sweet curry sauce thickened with a flour roux. Milder and silkier than Indian or Thai curry, served over steamed rice or udon noodles. Japanese curry arrived from India via Britain in the 19th century and was completely reimagined.

90 min400 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

★4.5

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Beverages

Matcha Latte

Ground shade-grown green tea whisked into a paste with hot water, then brought together with steamed milk. The result is grassy, vegetal and slightly sweet all at once — nothing like green tea-flavored syrup. Made properly at home with ceremonial-grade matcha, it's a genuinely different drink.

10 min130 kcal1 serves

⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

★4.7

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Fish and Seafood Dishes

Mellow Teriyaki Fish

White fish fillets glazed with a homemade teriyaki sauce that caramelizes under high heat into a sticky, sweet-savory coating. The sauce reduces to a glossy lacquer while the fish stays flaky and moist inside.

23 min275 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

★4.6

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Soups

Miso Soup

The soul of Japanese daily cooking: a light umami-rich broth of dashi and miso with silken tofu, wakame seaweed, and scallion. Ready in 15 minutes with just 6 ingredients. The one rule: never boil miso — it kills the living enzymes and dulls the flavor.

15 min90 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

★4.4

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Sweet Dishes

Mochi

Mochi is a traditional Japanese dessert with a unique, delicate texture made from glutinous rice, filled with fresh fruit — the taste varies with the filling but the exquisite chewy texture is always recognizable.

30 min85 kcal10 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌱Vegan

★4.4

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Fish and Seafood Dishes

Panko Shrimp

Crispy Japanese-style shrimp coated in panko breadcrumbs that deliver an incredibly light, airy crust while keeping the shrimp juicy inside. The secret is the three-stage breading and precise oil temperature.

30 min275 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🌶️Spicy

★4.5

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