Goma dare is a delicious creamy sesame and tahini based sauce. It’s perfect for dipping pork and veggies, drizzling over crisp salads or freshly cooked noodles.
Umeboshi are pickled ume fruits often called a «plum», but is more closely related to the apricot. Served boiled or seasoned served as a side dish for rice.
Furikake is a nutty, crunchy, flaky or powered Japanese seasoning consisting of sesame seeds, seaweed, and dried seafood, meat, or vegetable.
A type of flour obtained by grinding dried yam into a powder that tastes from bland to earthy, slightly smoky or nutty and moderately sweet.
Mentaiko is a spicy variety of pollock or cod roe that are combine melted butter, olive oil, soy sauce, spices, chilies and salt.
Takoyaki sauce is a combination of Worcestershire sauce, mentsuya, ketchup or tomato sauce and sugar. The sweet-tart sauce goes well with any Japanese dish.
Katsuobushi a form of dried, prepared skipjack tuna. The heat of the dish causes the shavings to wave and move, creating a rather unforgettable spectacle.
A roll of pork belly braised over low heat seasoned with soy sauce, sake, and sugar. Tender slices of meat are served as toppings to a bowl of ramen.
It is made by mixing different types of miso paste and adding ginger, sesame, chili, etc. Motodare emphasizes and enhances the taste of ramen soup.
Soft-boiled egg, known for their custardy yolk. The ramen egg is marinated overnight in sweetened soy sauce, so it becomes creamy and silky.
Kombu Tsukudani is thinly sliced kombu seaweed (large dried brown seaweed leaves) that is cooked with sugar and soy sauce for a concentrated flavor.
Bamboo shoots have a flavor with subtle earthy, woody and nutty notes. In texture, pickled bamboo shoots are pleasantly fibrous and crunchy.
A variety of Asian mushrooms with a crunchy texture and nutty, savory flavor. They're also known as beech mushrooms, they grow on fallen beech trees.
«Wood ears» or «black wood mushroom». Muera has a light aroma of smoke, the flesh has a crispy cartilaginous texture and sweet taste.
It's sometimes also known as Chinese white cabbage. Bok choy has the fabulously crisp texture and a fresh, grassy flavor that increases in nuttiness as you cook it.
The chef and waiters don’t have to be the only ones who can decipher the ingredients on the menu. Our glossary is a complete collection of ingredients used in the kitchen.
Don’t be afraid to try, pleasant gastronomic discoveries are waiting for you!