Japanese Delights

I love Japan. Almost everything about it. The Japanese stationary, the Japanese car that my family drives, and especially Japanese food.

I feel like a lot of Japanese food comes in small packages. In my Chinese family, sure, we make some dumplings that are technically “packages”, but in Japan, there are sushi, mochi, taiyaki, tempura. And in some of the Japanese restaurants that I have visited, there are cute medium-sized bowls of ramen, poke, and other yummy food. It’s so nice! I like savoring a little meal package of flavor that coats all of my taste buds. Or maybe finger food just hasn’t caught on with my family. But nevertheless, Japanese food is pretty good.

I love one kind of sushi – California roll. I know, I’m American, I was born and raised here, and that’s the only kind of sushi I’ll eat, unless some other sushi has tempura and spicy/sweet sauce on top. I’m pretty picky about my sushi.

There’s also an ice cream dessert pretty popular here. Two, actually. There’s mochi, a nice little round ball of sweet glutinous rice flour, and a nice, shockingly cold filling of ice cream, usually in many different flavors (vanilla, chocolate, matcha, and sometimes even coffee). There’s also taiyaki, a fish-shaped dessert that eaten just by itself or filled with red beans or custard in Japan, but here, in a famous store known a Taiyaki NYC, it is served with a lot of ice cream. It’s good either way…

There’s also some other pretty cool Japanese desserts such as the famous Japanese jiggle cheesecake, yummy coffee jelly, which used to be very popular in British and American cookbooks, and even crêpes! (pretty popular in Japan now, I think)

Some famous Japanese foods are sushi, ramen, poke, tempura… the list goes on forever. But sushi is one of my favorites. And ramen, of course. If you ever go to Japan, you have to get a good bowl of ramen. That’s what I want to do! (Haha, quote me on the ramen bowl thing!)

See ya next time!