2015/01/06

Basic table setting

This is the very basic Japanese table setting. 
When you are looking for a nice Japanese restaurant in your town, you can easily see that this restaurant would be offered the authentic and traditional meal or not. Just examine the display of the tale setting. 





The display of the chopsticks is the key to think of good meals they would offer you or not. 
If the chopsticks were displayed vertically, I don't think it's good restaurant for Japanese cuisine.
A bit shorter chopsticks with pointed in the picking side are displayed horizontally in front of you, this is what I expect in the authentic and traditional Japanese restaurant. 

Korean use a pair of metal chopsticks and a spoon, whilst Chinese use very long chopsticks, which quite slippery for picking up the food for me, so they display the chopsticks vertically. But NO WAY in the Japanese culture, we never ever do this way. In my opinion, if you called yourself a chef of the Japanee cuisine, you should know the cluture well. 
When you are in Japan and go to the Chinese or Korean restaurant, they would be displayed them in the Japanese way. Different approach in a different country, isn't it?

Very important part of the Japanese cuisine would be the RICE. It's very very different to the other Aisin cuisines. They use non sticky long grain rice, but the very sticky short grain rice called "Japonica rice" for the Japanese meal. also the quality of the rice is very important, especially for Sushi. 
When you had the long grain rice, might be dry, in your meal, I don't think you can get the quality Japanese food there.

Those two points would be the huge success to have the quality dinner in a Japanese restaurant or if you think of establishing the Japanese restaurant in the future. 
Anyone want to own a Japanese restauran, which is the proper, authentic and traditional one, I'll be able to help you? Actually I can't find any good Japanese restaurant in Bristol area. Sad, isn't it?


2015/01/01

very Happy New Year, 2015!


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