There are a lot of Italian restaurants in Japan, and you can find any kinds of Italian pasta there. There are also many “pasta restaurants” that are different from Italian restaurants. There they serve typical Italian pasta dishes such as tomato sauce and cream sauce pasta, but also more Japanese flavored and their own kinds of pasta. Japanese pasta is as popular as authentic Italian counter part.
Udon are Japanese wheat noodles. They are made from all purpose flour, water and salt. Very simple affair, so it seems. Japanese Udon artisans…
Somen is very tasty and a super easy dish, but it is a somewhat light meal by itself. Gomoku means ‘variety of ingredients’ in…
Soba noodles are a very popular lunch food in Japan. They are usually served chilled with a dipping sauce (Zaru Soba) or hot with…
Curry udon is one of the most popular ways to use up leftover Japanese curry sauce. It is certainly my favorite, and I look…
Somen are Japanese dried vermicelli noodles that are usually eaten cold during summer. Japanese summer is so hot and humid that you often loose…