Across
- 2. made by mixing together batter, sliced cabbage, and other savoury ingredients; spooning the mixture onto a hot plate; and then pan-frying as you would a pancake
- 3. thick, chewy, and traditionally made from wheat flour and brine water
- 4. flavoursome savoury dish of meat, potatoes and assorted vegetables simmered in soy sauce, sake, mirin and sugar
- 8. apanese omelette made by sequentially cooking and rolling up several layers of beaten egg
- 11. This salty delicacy is made by marinating the roe (fish eggs) of pollock and cod in any of a number of salty, savoury, and spicy seasonings
- 13. Made from a combination of miso paste (a traditional Japanese food made from fermented soy beans) and dashi broth
- 16. are small skewers of bite-size chicken pieces seasoned with salt or brushed with a sauce, or tare, of mirin rice wine, soy sauce, sake alcohol, and sugar
- 18. is made by coating pork chops in crisp panko breadcrumbs and deep-frying them until they are golden brown in colour
- 20. means ‘sweet bread’
Down
- 1. made by preparing (normally by simmering or frying) various meat, fish and vegetables and serving over steamed rice in large bowls (also called 'donburi')
- 5. noodle soup dish consisting of wheat noodles (also known as 'ramen noodles'), a savoury broth (soy sauce, salt, miso, and tonkotsu pork bone are the four main ramen broth bases) and toppings of meat, protein, and/or vegetables such as sliced pork, nori seaweed, spring onions, bamboo shoots, and others
- 6. raw fish or meat that has been expertly cut into thin slices and typically comes served with daikon radish, pickled ginger, wasabi and soy sauce
- 7. soy milk that has been coagulated, with the resulting curds being pressed into blocks
- 9. meat, fish, and/or vegetables that have been covered in a special tempura batter and deep fried until they become crunchy and pale gold in colour
- 10. Japanese nabemono hot pot dish most commonly enjoyed during the winter
- 12. made by fermenting soy beans in a special type of bacteria that is naturally produced in the human gastrointestinal tract
- 14. dish made with Japanese rice that has been seasoned with rice vinegar
- 15. made by taking an assortment of vegetables and proteins (including processed fish cakes, mochi rice cakes, boiled eggs, daikon radish, konjac yam and tofu), and stewing them in a light broth seasoned with soy sauce and dashi (a soup stock made from infusions of bonito fish flakes, kombu kelp seaweed, and/or other savoury ingredients) in a large hot pot at the centre of a table
- 17. yoshoku dish that was originally introduced to the Japanese by the British
- 19. known as ‘buckwheat noodles’