New Japanese Cuisines
Just like technology, cuisines all around the world evolve in to something more modernistic as time goes by. How do you classify modern cuisine? Some say, when non-traditional foods or non-traditional preparation methods are brought into that culture’s way of cooking it then becomes modernised by the people of that ethnicity. The most influence on cuisines and how they change stems primarily from the West. One of the cuisines most influenced by the West is Japanese cuisine.
Modern Japanese restaurants are becoming increasingly popular in Australia. Japanese restaurants offer a diversity of menu items, which appeal to most people. There are many yummy options to choose from, such as wagyu beef, Japanese bbq, and salmon carpaccios, just to name a few. Wagyu beef, cattle associated principally from Japan, is exceedingly moist and tender and some state that it has a butter and smooth taste to it as well. It is an pricy meat and very high standards are put in place to produce them to ensure that the best choice of meat is achieved. Most people are familiar with Japanese bbq. Typically, different meats and vegetables are brought to the table raw and grilled on either a charcoal or electric grill. As the meats and vegetables are cooking sauces are mainly used to season the food. Regular Asian ingredients are used in the sauces, such as; garlic, sesame, soy sauce, and sake. Salmon Carpaccio is a delicately prepared dish. There are quite a few variants on the recipe, but typically very thin pieces of salmon lay on the serving dish with pickled ginger spread throughout the salmon. Sometimes one would see edamame beans with the salmon as well. For the finishing touch, a sauce is drizzled over the top, usually sesame oil or miso based.
In Australia, many Japanese restaurants offer their customers a variety of Japanese bbq styles and also various entrees of wagyu beef. Vegetables, seafood and various meats seemed to popular for Japanese barbeque 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.
