Rain Japanese Cuisine http://www.rainjapanesecuisine.com Dedicated to Japanese Food Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:47:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The History of Yakitori http://www.rainjapanesecuisine.com/grilled/the-history-of-yakitori/ http://www.rainjapanesecuisine.com/grilled/the-history-of-yakitori/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:52:41 +0000 admin http://www.rainjapanesecuisine.com/?p=17 Yakitori is one of the most popular foods in Japan. Yaki means grilled and tori means chicken. Yakitori is cooked and served with 4 or 5 mouth sized pieces of chicken in a bamboo skewer. There are more than ten types of yakitori such as liver, thigh, skin, breast, wings and so on. Any parts that you can think of can be cooked as yakitori.

It is said that the origin of yakitori can trace back to 1600s. For more than 100 years, this traditional Japanese food has been loved by many people of all sorts, elder people to children, at all the time. People enjoy Yakitori as fast food when they drink or snack for children but also can be very fancy meal depending on which part or what brands are used.

Yakitori sauce is a vital component of making Yakitori. The role the sauce plays is very important giving yakitori extra flavor. The sauce is made and kept in a pot in a very traditional way. When the sauce is getting empty, they make some and add it into the same pot instead of making it all aver again. That’s how the sauce can be kept for a long time and taken over from generation to generation.

Image: Yakitori Cooking

]]> http://www.rainjapanesecuisine.com/grilled/the-history-of-yakitori/feed/ 0 The Importance of Sugar and Soy Sauce http://www.rainjapanesecuisine.com/japanese-spice/the-importance-of-sugar-and-soy-sauce/ http://www.rainjapanesecuisine.com/japanese-spice/the-importance-of-sugar-and-soy-sauce/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:24:24 +0000 admin http://www.rainjapanesecuisine.com/?p=4 Sugar and soy sauce is the most important combination in Japanese cuisine.  These are used in  many Japanese dishes. For example, cooked dishes like nimono, oden and kinpira-gobou, yakitori, syoga-yaki, syoyu-ramen and takikomi-gohan (rise dishes that include some ingredients) are cooked with these seasonings. If there is a lack of sugar and soy sauce, some Japanese cuisines lose their identity. In the beginning stages of cooking, it is sometimes difficult to adjust the amounts of sugar and soy sauce.

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