What are some traditional Japanese cooking methods?

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Table Top Cooking:
Nabe (stew), Okonomiyaki (Japanese pancakes), Sukiyaki and Shabu-shabu (hot pot), and Yakiniku (grilled meat) are quite popular in Japan. It's great when having a big group of people over, or if mom needs a break from cooking; everyone cooks their own food on a hot plate/griddle/grill in the middle of the dinner table.

Kushi-katsu (deep fried foods):
Meats and vegetables are first dipped in batter, rolled in panko bread crumbs, then deep-fried. Pork cutlets (tonkatsu), chicken cutlets, korokke (croquettes), and various other foods are cooked in this way. There are many Kushi-katsu restaurants in Japan where you can choose your own foods, then deep-fry them yourself at your table. Shrimp or fish can be cooked this way too. If you leave out the bread crumbs and just use batter, this is called 'tempura'.

Stir-fried vegetables (self-explanatory)

Yakitori (skewered chicken). You won't find just the breast meat, but also chicken meatballs, chicken skin and chicken hearts on a skewer.

Ordinary deep-fried foods like karaage (chicken pieces flavored with ginger, garlic, soy sauce, then breaded and fried), abura-age (deep-fried tofu), harumaki (egg rolls), ika (squid) and tako (octopus) are pretty popular.

The kim-chi flavor (in stews and the pickled vegetables themselves) is quite popular, having been borrowed from Korean culture.

The teriyaki flavoring (sugar, rice wine, rice vingear, soy sauce, water) is VERY widely used.

Sushi, onigiri, musubi (a variety of meats, seafood, vegetables combined with rice and wrapped in seaweed).
 
Besides serving 20 different kinds of rice with a 100 different dishes, you can make a lot of tofu into favorable dishes that can taste like barbeque ribs, to lobster and neither are meat. There are lots of nice soups, homemade noodles, stuffed pockets of dough from potato mixtures to rice and ground meats with cabbage. There are a great many sites on line to use things you have in your kitchen, but my favorite is homemade noodles with stir-fried vegetables and lots of mushrooms. First course would be a dumpling soup, and for desert, a cold milk rice pudding with carmal sauce. Check on line, so many websites on recipes for free, dry American Test Kitchen for American popular ones.
 
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