Help with a Japanese grocery list while shopping in an American grocery store?

Question

I love Japanese foods, but I need help with a grocery list so I can make common foods that they eat in Japan. I love rice, soy sauces, noodles, ginger sauces ect. Also, I am a vegetarian, I do not eat any types of meat.

Any Japanese recipies or how to make sauces would be greatly appreciated as well!

Answer 1

Well . . . first, you need recipes.  No sense buying stuff that you can't use.

http://japaneserecipe.blogspot.com/

http://japanesefood.about.com/b/2005/10/...

I think you will have problems finding much Japanese food in a regular grocery, but maybe I'm wrong.

First, rice - look for CalRose, or Pacific Rose or something like that.  It's not long grain rice, it's short, fat, stickier.

Soy sauce - buy the best Japanese soy sauce you can buy.

Nori - seaweed.

Sesame seeds.

Tofu.  Different types for different dishes.

Vegetables - lots of vegetables.

Ginger.  YES!  Ginger.  Fresh.

Google Japanese recipes easy, and find something that looks good, and go shopping.

Good luck!  Do you have a Japanese community where you live?  Shop where they do . . .

Answer 2

Japanese cuisine has a lot of mushroom dishes, you may like them.

dried shitake mushroom

dried sea weed

tofu

Japanese rice wine (sake)

miso (soy bean paste)

corn starch

vegetarain dashi no su (stock / broths)

mirin (sweet Japanese cooking wine)

any kind of Japanese salad dressings (soy sauce + sesame oil + rice vinegar + roasted sesame seed + sugar)

http://www.bento.com/trt-yuba.html

http://www.bento.com/trt-vegsoup.html

http://www.bento.com/tf-recp.html#kitche...