Nabeyaki Udon

Udon is a Japanese noodle made from wheat flour.
Nabeyaki udon is a hot type udon dish made by simmering udon noodles with other ingredients in soy sauce taste broth.
Usually those are simmered in an earthen pot, and served.
Popular ingredients are shrimp tempura, kamaboko, egg, spinach, shiitake-mushroom, carrot, green onion(Japanese leek), etc.
Nabeyaki udon is popular in cold winter.

Hiyamugi

Hiyamugi is a Japanese thin noodle made of wheat flour.
Hiyamugi noodle is similar to "Somen noodle".
But hiyamugi noodle is slightly thicker than somen noodle in size.

HIyamugi is usually served in cold water with ice and some vegetables.
We take a bite full of noodles and dip in the dipping sauce, and eat.
Hiyamugi is nice in summer.

Kitsune Udon

This is a kind of hot type udon dish.
I have already posted about hot type udon dish, Please check Kake udon.

"Kitsune" means literally "fox", but in this case, it means aburaage.
We simmer aburaage mildly sweet, and put it on kake udon.

It is popular in Osaka.
In Osaka, they call it just "Kitsune".

Yaki Udon

Udon is thick white noodle made from whaet flour.
"Yaki Udon is stir-fried udon.
Udon noodles are stir-fried with meat, vegetables ,and soy sauce or worester sauce.
In my case, I usually have it with soy sauce.
They say that yaki udon was born in kyushu region after world war 2.

Zaru Soba

Zarusoba is a cold type soba dish.

It is similar to Mori Soba.

Zaru soba is topped with shreded Nori.
Mori soba is topped with nothing.
Both of soba noodle and dipping sauce are same in Zaru soba and Mori soba.

In my case, I prefer Zarusoba.
Because I think Nori is good for soba.


(Note)
Usually Zaru soba is served on rounded plate, Mori soba is served on squarish plate.

Long ago, Dipping sauces were different in Zaru soba and Mori soba.

Miso Ramen

Miso is femented soy bean paste.
It is a basic seasoning of Japanese dish.

Miso ramen is a ramen which ramen noodles are in miso flavor hot soup.
Usually the soup is made by adding miso based Tare to Dashi (stock).
Miso ramen has rich taste.

Miso ramen is born in Sapporo and spreaded all over Japan.

Home made Yakisoba

Yakisoba is a Japanese stir-fried noodle.
Yakisoba noodle is similar to ramen noodle.
It is made from wheat flour.
ther are various yakisoba dish.
Today, I introduce you a kind of home made yakisoba.



We usually buy steamed yakisoba noodles. usually it is include sauce powder(seasoning powder).
Of course, you can use tonkatsu sause or worcester sauce, and some seasoning instead of sauce powder.

We usually stir-fry pork (some time ham or sausage) and some vegetables(soy bean sprout, cabbage, carrot, onion and so on) lightly with few salada oil on the pan.
Add yakisoba noodles.
Add water on them.
fry them with stiring lightly until water is off.
Add sauce powder, and stir them.

Tanmen

Tanmen is a kind of Tokyo style ramen which has salt flavor and topped with sauteed various vegetables.
Usually, saute various vegetables and few pork with salt and pepper.
And add chicken bone based hot soup to it, and pour them on boiled ramen noodles( usually curly noodles ).
Usually vegetables of ingredients are soybean sprout, carrot, cabbage, onion, leek , Kikurage mushroom , and so on.

Tsukimi Soba

"Tsukimi" means moon viewing.
This is a kind of hot type soba dish.
Soba noodles are in hot soup and topped on a raw egg and Nori.
Raw egg is showed as full moon, and Nori is showed as clouds
It looks lovely but aloso delicious.
Because raw egg and Nori are good with soba.

Shio Ramen

"Shio" means salt.
Shio ramen is a ramen which ramen noodles are in salt flavored hot soup.

Usually the soup stock is not so oily to stand out the taste of salt.
And we can also enjoy the taste of the stock.

I think shio ramen have light taste.
But it doesn't mean thin taste.
And it has a good finish taste.

Hiyashi Chuka

It is also called "Hiyashi ramen" or "Remen".

Boilled ramen noodle is rinsed well in cold water to cool it.

Drain off the water, and served on the dish.

Poured soy sauce and vinegur based cold soup.

Topping is various, thinly sliced grilled pork, shreded steamed chicken, shreded ham, shreded Tamagoyaki, shreded cucumber, tomato, Beni-syoga(pickled ginger), Wakame(sea weed) and so on.

We serve those topping on the ramen to become it good colouring like these photo.

The vinegar gives good taste for summer.

Generally Hiyashi chuka is served during summer.

Mori Soba

Mori Soba is the simplest cold type soba dish.
Boiled soba is rinsed in cold water.
And drained off the water, and searved on such a squarish plate.

We put some Wasabi and choped green onion into the cold broth which is made by adding Kaeshi(made from soy sauce, sweet sake, and so on) to Dashi ( stock made from dried bonito ).
We take a bite full of soba with chopsticks and dip it in the broth slightly and eat.

Mori soba is really simple soba dish.
So we can enjoy the taste of Soba.

Shoyu Ramen (Tokyo style)

Shoyu ramen is a ramen which ramen noodles are in soy sauce flavored hot soup.
"Shoyu" means soy sauce.
Ramen in these photos are Tokyo style shoyu ramen.

Usually, the soup is made by adding soy sauce based sauce (Tare) to clear stock (Dashi) which is made from chiken, some dried fish, and various vegetables.
The soup is clear, light brown, and not oily but not thin taste.
Usually, curly noodles used rather than straigt one.
Because curly noodles are match to such light taste soup.

In the photo above, topping is thinly sliced pork, Menme (fermented banboo shoot), finely sliced green onion, thinly sliced Narutomaki (a type of Kamaboko), and Wakame (seeweed).
In the photo below, topping is thinly sliced pork, Menma, finely sliced green onion, Nori (dried seaweed), boiled egg, and boild spinach.

Kake udon

Udon is Japanese thick noodle made from wheat flour.
There are variously kind of udon noodles by region.
Usually we kead wheat flour with salt water and roll out them , and cut it into narrow stripe.

Kake udon is simplest hot type udon dish.
Boiled udon is put into bowl and poured soysauce based mild flavor hot broth.
And topped on finelly sliced green onion.
We usually sprinkle a little of red pepper on it, before eat it.

Kake udon is aloso called "Su udon".
"su" means "nothing" in this case.

Kake soba

Soba is a Japanese thin noodle made from buckwheat.

Kake soba is the simplest hot type soba dish.
Boiled soba is drained. and put into bowl. Poured soysauce based hot broth.
"kake" means "pour" in English in this case.
And topped with finely sliced green onion.
We usually sprincle a little of red peper on it.

The broth is made from soysauce, sweet sake, and dried bonito.
It is mild flavor.