Cooking World

Tempura is a dish consisting of seafood, vegetables, mushrooms and other pieces of food covered with tempura batter and thoroughly fried. This feeding dish was brought to Japan by the Portuguese in far 16th century, but now is known as one of Japan’s most famous dishes.
Okonomiyaki is something between pizza and pancake. Various ingredients, including seafood, vegetables and meat are mixed with the dough and put on the okonomiyaki as topping.
Monjayaki is peculiar to Kanto region but is very similar to Okonomiyaki. In this dish, as distinct from okonomiyaki, dough is much more liquid.
Gyoza are dumplings with minced vegetables and ground meat. This dish came to Japan from China, but in Japan gyoza are as a rule cooked by frying them.
Another favorite dish, which includes egg custard with additional pieces of chicken, shrimp or fish cake is known as Chawanmushi.
Tsukemono are Japanese pickles. There are a lot of different pickles, which are served with most Japanese meals in a small dish.