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Various Japanese recipes

Go moku ramen, yaki niku, etc.

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noratx
I have searched for years for some good (and preferably recommended) recepies for some Japanese dishes.

Maybe, maaaaaybe I can have some luck now.
There are especially two recepies that I am looking for.. (from the beginning one, but since a 2 week trip to Japan some years ago, it's now two).

The first one is Yaki niku.. I found one recepie like 3 years ago that I tried, but it wasn't right at all... it didn't taste the way I think it should.

The second one is "Go moku ramen" (Five Ingredient Noodles).
When I ate this in Japan, I developed a taste for it (I ate almost one bowl of it each day).
The ingredients were Pork, mushrooms (black fungus I think, or maby Shitake, don't remember.) some vegetables, and eggs.

Now I don't remember which vegetables that was used, but what i absolutely fail at, is the pork and the eggs.
No matter which pork meat I try, I can't get it right. And for the eggs, if it doesn't get like "scrambled eggs", it doesn't even harden, just floating on top of the noodles.

I saw when the cook in Japan added the egg, he didn't boild it on beforehand, he just cracked it over the pot, and it hardened and was delicious.

Now, if anybody here knows the secret behind go moku ramen, and/or have a good recepie of Yaki niku, I would be forever thankfull. Really! =)
(And allthough I may ask for two specific recepies, I just love the Japanese kitchen, so if you have any Japanese recepies to share, please do! smile.gif )
merryeri
This is a really good blog in english that explains almost all you could ever want to know about making japanese food:
http://www.justhungry.com/

The best part is that the blogger is based in Switzerland, so she is using ingredients that you would mostly be able to get here.

Here is a link to another great japanese cooking resource, with a thread specifically about ramen:
http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=2298

The problem is that ramen albeit simple, is difficult to master. Most people in japan just go to restaurants, or buy these kinds of things pre-made in grocery stores.

In Munich you can eat fairly reasonable (both in taste and price) ramen at a shop that you pass when you walk from Isartor to Deutsches Museum. It's really small, and I don't remember the name. The people running the shop aren't japanese, but the ramen is still quite good for europe. For yakiniku, you should go to Mikado near Marienplatz, and buy their thinly sliced meat they keep in the freezer. 1 small package is enough for 2 people, unless you are really hungry. While there, you can buy bottled yakiniku-no-tare (sauce) to go with it. Also, if you use any kind of instructions to prepare meat for carpaccio, that should also work.
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