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The Essence of Japanese Food - Wa Shoku |
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Tribute to Japan, for its extraordinary new foods, as a model of innovation and adaptation. The essence of has always been for a great variety of small items, prepared as naturally as possible and presented elegantly, all falling in line to the traditional values.
Japan, is a food-connoisseurship society, efficient in its use of resources, with healthful and tasteful food, accessible due to relatively even wealth distribution.
Japan as a country, its people, life style, all pursue unity and harmony. Proud to call their country as "Wa" (meaning harmony) and term their food as "Wa Shoku".
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Wasabi
Fresh wasabi, is an expensive luxury item in Japan .The best wasabi , wild wasabi ,grows high in the mountains in cool ,clear ,shaded ,shallow streams of spring water .The root ,green in colour is grated and mixed with the soy sauce dip for sashimi.Greated wasabi is also placed between the rice and fish in nigirizushi.The powdered versi.... more>> |  | |
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Tea
Known history dates back to A.D 815, when tea drinking started in Japan .This was powdered green tea matcha.Then in the late 16th century leaf tea – sencha was introduced from China to Japan .Leaf tea was easier to make than matcha, so it became popular.Many kinds of leaf tea drunk in Japan –Gyokuro,Sencha ,Bancha,Hojicha,Genmaicha,Ko.... more>> |  | |
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Wasabon Sugar
The very rare kind of sugar , made through a very lengthy process – 200 hundred year traditional method , made from unusual kind of sugar cane.A lengthy process is used , so as to remove every trace of treacle a technique not used elsewhere.The resultant product stands for its softness ,fineness and the most clean sugar.
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Tofu
Tofu, historically referred to as shira kabe or ‘white wall’, was first brought to Japan in the Nara period (761-793).Tofu’s earliest appearance in Japanese history was a Buddhist offerings, but the food was soon discovered to be a valuable source of protein for the vegetarian priests, who often ran tofu shops in temples and monasteries..... more>> |  | |
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