New Japanese Cuisines
Just like technology, cuisines all around the world evolve in to something more modern as time goes by. What constitutes a modern cuisine? Some say, when non-traditional foods or non-traditional cookery methods are brought 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 changed. One of the cuisines most influenced by the West is Japanese cuisine.
Modern Japanese restaurants are becoming increasingly popular in the land down under. Japanese restaurants offer a variety of menu items, which appeal to most of the public. There are heaps of flavoursome selections to choose from, such as wagyu beef, Japanese bbq, and salmon carpaccios, just to name a few. Wagyu beef, cattle affiliated mainly from Japan, is the most moist and tender, butter and smooth taste to it according to some. It is an pricey meat and very high measures are put in place to produce them to insure that the best choice of meat is attained. Most people are familiar with Japanese barbecue. Typically, various meats and veggies are brought to the table raw and seared 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 constituents are used in the sauces, such as; garlic, sesame, soy sauce, and sake. Salmon Carpaccio is a exquisitely prepared dish. There are a few variants of 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 mizzled over the top, usually sesame oil or miso based.
In Aussie, many Japanese restaurants offer their clients a variety of Japanese barbeque styles and also assorted 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.
