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Spring rolls are known throughout East Asia with countless fillings. I first encountered them as loempia (pronounced Lumpia) in an Indonesian restaurant in the Netherlands. Therefore, my filling has a distinctly Indonesian flavor.
Of course, you could buy them as convenience food, and they don't taste bad. Unfortunately, most of these products contain the infamous E621, monosodium glutamate. This is found in many natural foods like...
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The Japanese discovered the schnitzel for themselves, albeit shortly after the war and presumably through German-Americans, possibly also through German contacts during the war. The standard version is tonkatsu, a slice of pork coated in panko breading. This was later expanded to include a chicken breast, but the pinnacle is chicken katsu, made from a boneless chicken leg.
It's served with vegetables of your choice, short-grain rice,...
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Japanese food is actually a no-go for me. I'm a big fan of East Asian food, but Japan really isn't my thing because it's too lush with spices. However, I noticed two dishes that stand out from normal Japanese food due to their heavy use of sugar and soy sauce. These are the Yakitori skewers made from chicken and the pork belly, which probably originally comes from China.
I summed it up as a menu, there were yakitori skewers, kakuni,...
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Like so many things, this pork belly seems to have spilled over from China to Japan. With its overpopulation and the few areas that can be used for agriculture, Japan is of course not suitable for pig farming there. As I've seen the days, they don't even have enough space for rice, the staple food. Interestingly, it is imported from Italy, the only European country that produces surplus short-grain rice. So both rice and pork are...
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Although originally from Japan, Japanese chicken skewers have become popular as street food throughout East Asia. If the cook is reasonably clean and doesn't smear the handles of the skewers with teriyaki sauce, they're easy to eat by hand. In the other case, you definitely need the opportunity to wash your hands, the sauce sticks to your hands worse than honey and sugar syrup together.
It doesn't really matter whether you put the...