10.21.09
Modern Japanese Cuisines
Just like technology, cuisines all around the world evolve in to something more modernistic as time goes by. What constitutes a modern cuisine? Some say, when non-traditional foods or non-traditional cookery methods are worked into that culture’s way of cooking it then becomes modernised by the people of that ethnicity. The West has the most influence on how cuisines evolved. One of the cuisines most influenced by the West is Japanese cuisine.
Modern Japanese restaurants are becoming progressively popular in the land down under. Japanese restaurants offer a diversity of menu items, which appeal to most of the public. There are many flavoursome selections to choose from, such as wagyu beef, Japanese bbq, and salmon carpaccios, just to name a few. Wagyu beef, cattle consorted primarily from Japan, is extremely moist and tender and some state that it has a butter and smooth taste to it as well. It is an pricy meat and very high measures are put in place to farm them to insure that the best quality of meat is attained. Many people enjoy Japanese bbq. Typically, assorted meats and vegetables are brought to the table raw and cooked on either a charcoal or electric grill. As the meats and vegetables are cooking special japanese sauces are primarily used to season the food. Typical Asian ingredients are used in the sauces, such as; garlic, sesame, soy sauce, and sake. Salmon Carpaccio is a exquisitely prepared dish. There are quite a few variances on the recipe, but typically very thin slices of salmon lay on the serving dish with pickled ginger sprinkled throughout the salmon. Sometimes one would see edamame beans with the salmon as well. For the finishing touch, a sauce is drizzled over the top, usually sesame oil or miso based.
In the land down under, many Japanese restaurants offer their customers a variety of Japanese barbeque styles and also diverse entrees of wagyu beef. Veggies, seafood and various meats seemed to popular for Japanese bbq at many restaurants, with an assortment of cooking sauces to choose from. Wagyu beef can be served as: beef tenderloin with a garlic-ginger ponzu sauce, wagyu beef as a sirloin or in a roll form.
