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What does the authentic mean?

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Nothing is simple as that. While eating, if you remember the nice time you had in Japan or you forget for a while that you are in European town, the meal should be genuine.

Grandma's Cooking

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Of course, good taste and lower price is the most attractive. However I believe that the simple home-cooking taste could be loved more when we are far from home.

Europe conquered by RAMEN

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Ramen is not just the Ramen

As you can imagine, "Ramen" is not a Japanese word. "Men" is certainly Chinese noodle, but what is "Ra"?
Anyway till about 20 years ago, many good mannered European kept a distance from Asians eating noodle soup noisily.
And now?

In Japan there are about 70,000 Ramen-Ya from which about 3500 are newcomer and the same amount are closing every year.
But what's wrong with the Chinese noodle which has 4000 years tradition?
Chinese noodle soup should have much more ingredients like vegetables and meat so that it is comparatively less expensive, but many Asian have started appealing the "Japanese Rames" on their menu !?

Rice - White Rice

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Rice is good. Every dish is good.

There is no doubt that the rice is the most important ingredient for Japanese meal. Of course the rice is a main dish for many asian countries, however the enthusiasm is different.

The other day, a young Chinese lady asked me where she can buy the "sushi rice".
Then I realized that we often see the label or the advertisement written "sushi rice" here in Europe.
I told her, there is no rice variety called "sushi rice" and just to look at if it is a "Japanese" rice. There are rice varities, which are very suitable for "sushi", but for the family meal you can use almost all Japanese rice, californian "Japanese" rice and Spanish "Japanese" rice as well.

However the problem is how to cook. I can bet that 99% of European and 90% of Japanese cannot cook rice for sushi with a pot.