A frightening aspect when it comes to recipes or instruction manuals is when you have no idea what it all means. The instructions given are overly complicated or incomprehensible. However, in JAPANESE COOKING RECIPES, the instructions are clear and easy to follow. If you want to try your hand out at making Japanese recipes, then this book's a perfect way for you to start learning basic recipes.The book is well illustrated with clear photos and is bilingual, with instructions and descriptions both in English and Japanese. Overall, a neat book with fun recipes to try out when you have the time or want to try out something new.

Japanese Cooking Recipes by Fumiko Kawakami was an excellent cookery book. I love Japanese cuisine and to have and learn from an excellent and well illustrated cookery book. I found it very easy to follow throughout and enjoyed creating some of these recipes. They were a hit in my house.

Big Thank you to NetGalley and Shinsei Publishing for an ebook. This is my honest review.

My family & I enjoyed this cookbook! The author/chef offered easy to follow directions and easy to find ingredients. We’ve already made a few dishes, all so yummy! Very happy with this cookbook and highly recommend to anyone who enjoys Japanese cuisine or if you’re looking to try a new cuisine/recipe.

Working from home due to the COVID19, i was delighted to get an ARC digital copy of this book, the recipes are great, something for everyone - I love Japanese food and cooking - time in my kitchen is therapy for me right now so thank you for this beautiful, unusual cook book.

This book was incredible! It truly teaches you how to cook Japanese food in a way that goes beyond just recipes and explains how to use certain utensils and which ingredients are important and why. I was incredibly impressed with this book and the way it incorporated Japanese culture.

For anyone who has wanted to dive into trying out authentic Japanese food, this is the perfect book for you! This easy-to-follow recipe book showcases recipes that you won't find at your local Japanese Grill. Instead, you will find major Japanese cuisine recipes that are very straightforward to make and ingredients that are not going to be difficult to find.

For those that are visual learners, like myself, I appreciate that every step comes with a detailed colored photograph. That way, you can assess whether you are following the recipe exactly.

As an ENL teacher, I am going to use this book with my Japanese students as a tool to learn procedural and sequencing language terms. Each direction and background information is written in both English and Japanese. Likewise, English speakers learning Japanese will be able to the Japanese characters.

As a side note, one of my Japanese ENL students taught the class how to make Onigiri. I am delighted to find a recipe that I can use to recreate the delicious rice ball. With social distancing and more time on our hands, what better time is there of learning a new cuisine than now?

Thank you to Fumiko Kawakami, the publisher, and NetGalley for this electronic copy in exchange for my honest review.

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I absolutely loved this book and highly recommend it. In addition to being a great guide for cooking whether you're a novice or more experienced looking to expand your knowledge, everything in this book is written in both English and Japanese so it's also helpful for people who want to practice the languages.

Part 1 of the book is about basics that will apply to any dish, such as use of cooking utensils and supplies, preparing food before cooking, common ingredients and seasonings, bases such as soup stock or rice, and meal presentation. Parts 2-5 all contain recipes grouped by category (usually location of origin). Each recipe has a full-page photo of the completed meal, a list of tips for cooking and troubleshooting for mistakes, a photo of the ingredients, and step-by-step instructions with photos for each step. The instructions are all very clear and the introductory section at the beginning is long and comprehensive, so the book is quite versatile.

Everything you need to know to begin cooking Japanese Food, for beginners right through to experts. A great starter cookbook, with nicely set out and easy to follow recipes.

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One very interesting book! Usually cookbooks contain of a list of ingredients, how to make food, and some with pictures to show how to make. I like those with a story on the dish itself. But this one is just like hospitality school cookbook. It's so detailed on what to do and what to avoid with so many tips. And bilingual japanese-english! So for those learning Japanese, can use this book to enrich their grammar, vice versa to Japanese who learns english.

This is a great resource for anyone trying to make authentic Japanese cuisine. For me, as the mom of a picky eater, a lot of these recipes won't work, but I did find several to try. I loved the incredibly detailed instructions complete with step by step photographs. I appreciated that times were noted in the beginning of each recipie. Very informative text.

Now, this is a detailed cookbook. In addition to that, it's bilingual (Japanese/English), full of information and intriguing recipes, and step by step instructions. Overall, it's an amazing resource and if one is a newbie when it comes to Japanese cooking, it's really helpful. There's a bunch of recipes I'd like to try too.

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Sometimes these cookbooks can be overly simplistic or really just cater to the foreign audience, but this cookbook delivers on the premise of teaching you Japanese cooking.

First: the book is in both Japanese and English. This threw me off at first but I ended up liking it, just as someone who has been learning Japanese.

Second: the cook goes in-depth about Japanese cooking. Now if you think it’s history - no. It’s the values and cultural ideas behind the flavors of Japan and how they typically think about them. It was a lot of detail that I had never really seen before.

Third: a lot of the recipes are not the typical ones I would see in a Japanese cookbook, and I feel that that’s a strength of this book. I felt that the recipes were more homey and realistic to what people eat - while I’m not a fan of a number of the recipes, I appreciate the detailed instructions and photo guides that accompany each step.

For example: I don’t really like Japanese pickles. As someone who does her country’s style of pickling (kimchi), I enjoyed seeing the differences in our methods and how to do such a thing from scratch if I ever wanted to make these style of pickles. That’s just for one recipe alone.

My only negative is that there weren’t really any sweets or desserts, but that might be for a different cookbook.

Would recommend.

Japanese Cooking Recipes by Fumiko Kawakami is an amazing resource for Japanese cooking with easy to follow recipes. I really enjoyed this one for an amazing resource and a reference guide for all thinks Japanese, from the basic to complex preparation. thank you for the copy of this cook book that is very well written by Kawakami.

Great book if you are seriously into Japanese cooking. Not for your average cook. Picture are a bit small . The text is in both English and Japanese. which make the page look very cluttered. Although mine was a pre publication copy so it might be in just one language on publication.. Having said that I did find out some new ingredients and techniques.

Everything you need to know Japanese cooking. From beginner who does not know how to roll a sushi to making more complicated yet easy enough dishes such as miso soup is here.
Good starter cooking book.