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Teppanyaki evolved from Sukiyaki which is a particular type of hot pot. During the Bakumatsu period (1853-1869), people figured that use the hot iron plate to cook meat is much faster than boiling. Also, it gives the meat a special flavor than another cooking method.

After World War II, iron plates are everywhere like garbage in Japan. Shigeji Fujioka, founder of the first Teppanyaki brand “Teppanyaki Misono” in Japan had introduced the idea of using discard iron plate to make dishes at Kobe in 1945. It is the first time that the restaurant moving the kitchen to the front. This idea first time give a chance for the customer to communicate with the chef and watching how the chef is making the dishes. Also, the Teppanyaki is the combination of Western and Japanese cooking style which brought a new flavor to Japanese style cooking.

After over 60 years of evolution, the material of Teppanyaki is not only limited to meat like chicken or beef but also another different type of food material like seafood and vegetables. The Teppanyaki is more like a general idea. It could be classified into so many different subdirectories such as Teriyaki, Kabayaki, and Okonomiyaki. Depend on different material and cooking style gives the dishes different names. It became street food in some place in Asia with cheaper price and easier method of cooking.

It became street food in some place in Asia with cheaper price and easier method of cooking.

Today’s recommendation restaurant in Ontario is Kobe Teppanyaki &BBQ at city of Markham. They provide real Grade 5 Miyazaki Wagyu and fantastic Teppanyaki show during the dinner time. Seat around the Teppanyaki Bar with friends and enjoy the excellent food and presentation to celebrate or maybe relax in the weekend. https://www.kobebbq.ca/

Before we finish the topic today, let’s enjoy the Teppanyaki show online!

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Sushi and Sashimi, one of the world most popular food style in Japan. It originally from China, Tang dynasty (A.D. 618 – A.D. 907). During Tang dynasty, people love to eat fresh raw fish especially those literati. By this time, Emperor Taizong conquered Japan and Korea. He brings all his favorite food to Japan and local people start to follow which Sashimi was one of it. A long time after, Japan started a civil war. A soldier needs to figure out a good way to keep food away from metamorphism. So, first, they start to use rice vinegar pickled fish meat and cover with rice. The rice, unfortunately, is not to eat at the beginning, it just the protection to keep fish eatable. Later on, people found the rice after ferment with fish taste good so people start to eat rice with fish. This is the Sushi roll history.

Around 1823, Hanaya Yohei invented modern Sushi, fish on top and rice on the bottom. His name became a well famous Japanese franchise sushi store now. The different production methods derived from different regions in Japan gives a different taste of Sushi and the Sushi is not limited to fish only.

Nowadays, people do not need pickled fish anymore just for fresh. 鮨– originally from Chinese means some kind of fish. In Japanese, it means salted fish with the sour and stinking smell. It has the same pronunciation as 寿司(sushi) so, some restaurant starts to replace it to make the customer feel better when they dinning in the restaurant.

Today I am going to introduce to you guys a small Sushi place located at Niagara-on-the-lake. The beautiful town with lovely Sushi. The fish according to one of the chefs which is my friend James were shipped from Japan directly. With so many different choices of fresh fish, the chef gives you a great presentation of making Sushi and Sashimi. The second reason I love this place is that they use real fresh grinding and serve you not like most of the Sushi restaurant use wasabi powder. Check it out, and remember to get a small bottle of sake and after meal green tea ice cream. Always call before you visit, since they are pretty busy during dinner time.

for menu: https://masakisushi.ca/

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People love meat a lot especially Chinese. Hotpot is one of the most popular ways to eat meat in China. A research study shows in 2015, Chinese spend over 15 billion Yuan on the hot pot which is about 3 billion Canadian dollars. That clearly shows the love of a hot pot.

The Chinese start to eat hotpot around B.C 200 which is until now, over 2000 years of history. In China, we have so many different genre hotpots which begin in a different province. The different style of hotpot depends on the local natural environment and the cultural environment. For example, Beijing style hotpot using a copper pot with charcoal to boil the soup. The food needs to cut into very thin slice so it could be cooked within seconds. A story behind this copper hotpot is Genghis Khan loves lamb but during the wartime, he has no time to wait the BBQ lamb ready and serve. So that his chef decides to cut the lamb into thin slice and put it into boil meat soup to eat with dipping sauce.

Hotpot is not only popular in China, but also worldwide. The well known Chinese hotpot brand Liuyishou Hotpot was founded in 2000. Until now they have over 1000 locations throughout the world. In my opinion, they have produced the best Chongqing style of beef oil spicy hotpot in Canada. With all fresh ingredients and decent flavor house-made sauce to provide you a great experience of Chinese hotpot. Just be careful when you visit them during the weekend. Make a reservation will be a great idea. Best food of winter time, prepare for the spicy.

for more information : https://www.liuyishouna.com/

Work cited

HKExnews. “Market Size of Hot Pot Condiments in Chinese Compound Condiment Market from 2010 to 2020 (in Billion Yuan)*.” Statista – The Statistics Portal, Statista, http://www.statista.com/statistics/683383/china-hot-pot-condiments-market-size/, Accessed 22 Feb 2019

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Noodle is one of the most popular main courses in China. 4000 years ago, Chinese people developed a new way to eat cereals and beans. Make the cereals and beans into the dough and rolled flat to cut or pull hard to change the shapes into long strips. In China, there are so many different ways of making noodles with different taste.

Today, I will introduce one of the most famous noodle styles in China, it called Lanzhou noodle or Beef noodle soup from Gansu province. Basically, there are 2 types of noodles in China, dry noodles (mix with sauce, stir-fried and cold mix sauce) and noodle soup. The Lanzhou noodle is the noodle soup type. The shape of the noodle can be different, such as regular, flat， slim and etc . The different shape of noodle gives the dish a different taste. When the chef making the dough into noodles, they need to pull the dough up and fall the dough onto the table while holding the two side part of the dough until the dough become noodle. The soup comes with the noodle takes even more effort to make: use flash cut beef and bones with spices to boil more than 5 hours.

There is a standard for Lanzhou noodle: “clean, white, red, green, yellow.” Clean means soup has to be clean as water but with decent flavor. White, red, green, yellow means white radish, chili oil, parsley and the color of the noodle. According to existing history book in China, the Lanzhou noodle style establishes in Qing dynasty by Weijing Chen who gives the standard for Lanzhou noodle.

https://youtu.be/ry8KHxCtIY4

The restaurant I will introduce to you today called Orient Express Toronto, they are located in Scarborough, ON. Don’t be confused by the name of the restaurant, they are not express, they have a very nice hand made noodles with traditional way. They have done some basic modify on the noodle recipe to meet the local taste but keep the original taste. The chili oil they have are homemade with fresh dried crushed chili. Try the noodles there and you will see the true beauty of the noodle culture.

the following website is their website, but maybe required translate http://www.dongfanggong.com.cn/

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My name is Joshua Bian, I am glad to meet all you here. The blog I will write about later will be something related to food and travel. Hopefully, you will enjoy the blog here and welcome to leave any comment if you’d like to : )

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