Tokyo Cult Recipes

Tokyo Cult Recipes will interest both beginner and more advanced cooks who want to prepare true Japanese recipes. There are no difficult techniques. Everything is doable. Other than the SPECTACULAR photos, the most striking feature is the strong focus on authentic ingredients and authentic techniques. The author taught Japanese cooking and has been cooking Japanese food since she was a child. The recipes reflect this background. The dishes you would expect to be there are. And there are some fascinating surprises. The recipes have substance. There is an average of seven ingredients per recipe. Which isn't as important as the fact each recipe has what it needs to produce superior results. Some only have a few ingredients: how to make rice, dashi, some basic sauces, some bento components and how to make ice cream. But these don't need a ton of ingredients. In addition to all the Japanese favorites, the recipe highlights for me are: the stuffed cabbage, any of the gyoza, the chicken meatball hot pot, and the sōmen. There are many snipets of Tokyo culture that just makes this book perfect. I hope that a second book is being planned. Highly recommended.

Easy recipes that work, beautiful pictures, and great storytelling. A great book to have!

Pleasantly surprised by the amount of information put in by the author. It has a nice, balanced combination of recipes and Japanese food culture/location recommendation. Several things that made this book really stood out from my collection of Japanese cooking books: 1. A very detailed miso soup section, starting from types of miso to the possible combination of vegetables fitting to each miso type, color photo of each combo provided; (good-bye, seaweed & tofu soup from your local Japanese restaurants) 2. Several traditional bento recipes(names you actually see in a Japanese local food store/Laws*n), providing sub recipes for each dish featured in the bento; 3. A good selection of preserved vegetable recipes; 4. Extensive gyoza (Chinese dumplings) recipe section, listing a few different methods and stuffing combinations. As an experienced gyoza maker I can see the knowledge & efforts spent on putting them up; In summary I am very satisfied with my purchase and recommend this to someone who is generally familiar with Japanese food but wanted to have that one step further of flavoring up their normal menu.

Great coffee table book. Nice quality bound and printed pictures and recipes. They seem pretty easy for most people trying to make Japanese food.

This is exactly what I was looking for in a Japanese cookbook. The recipes are fairly simply and taste authentic and great! I feel like I'm in Japan any time I give one of these recipes a go. It has a good variety of main meals and side dishes which was much appreciated. If you're new to Japanese cooking, this makes for a fantastic first cookbook!

I got this book for my daughter who has gotten into creating new and fun different dinners darning the quarantine. She has been using this books to whip up Isolation Dinners and said they are both easy to understand and follow and quite tasty as well. One thing her 5 year likes are the photos are quite nice.

There are some great recipes in this book, I own a rather large collection of Japanese cookbooks (in English and Japanese) and this one has become a new favorite. I often find myself reaching for it as a number of recipes have been loved by my wife and she often wants me to make them weekly now when meal planning. The shabu pork belly salad on chrysanthemum greens has one of the best salad dressings I've come across thus far in all my cookbooks...we make just the dressing alone sometimes its that good! The book is worth it just for that in my opinion.

TAKE NOTE: This books size is 6" x 7.5" it's a mini sized hardcover "recipe" book. While the recipes MIGHT be ? ok ? / or not.....the font and the general SIZE of this book is not what i'd expected. Normally I don't look at the book DIMENSIONS but from now on I will. I have a BIG collection of cookbooks and their SIZE has never been an issue until this purchase. I was expecting a normal sized hardcover book. It's so not that. So perhaps the kindle version would be easier to read. Just a heads up. The 3 stars is for the MINI size and the MINI print. I didn't go any further than opening the package before starting a return.

Nicely designed, bought as a gift for a designer who loves Japanese cuisine. Was a hit

bellissimo libro per gli amanti della cultura e della cucina giapponese. ricette buonissime e anche facili da fare reperendo i giusti alimenti tipici. must da avere

Excellent livre sur la cuisine japonaise. Exhaustif et superbement illustré avec de nombreux photos appelant au voyage et à la gourmandise.

Wunderschönes Buch! Dieses Kochbuch ist nicht einfach nur ein Kochbuch, dort wird die Japanische Essenskultur Stück für Stück in toll geschrieben Texten erklärt ! Die Bilder sind wundervoll, generell das ganze Buch ist fantastisch geschrieben und designed. Es werden nicht nur Rezepte gezeigt, sondern auch viele Basics der Japanischen Küche erklärt und nahegelegt. Ebenso welche Utensilien man am besten benutzen sollte etc etc etc Dieses Buch kann ich jedem empfehlen der sich mit der japanischen Küche noch nicht sonderlich gut auskennt, es ist simpel gehalten und die Rezepte sind der Wahnsinn, selbst als Vegetarierin! Kleiner Minuspunkt : das Buch kam ungeschützt (nicht gut verpackt) bei mir an. Zum Glück war es nicht beschädigt

I love love love Japanese culture and food, so I was immediately attracted to this book; I wasn't disappointed! The cover is lovely and vibrant, with no loathsome dust jacket to get in your way. The recipes are easy to follow, well-explained, and written in an almost conversation-like way. The highlight of this book, however, is the many photographs - of Japanese food, of Tokyo streets, of markets, people; I really felt immersed. Will definitely be buying the other books in this series.