[Sca-cooks] Teppanyaki tables

[A F Murphy]

Eggs in butter are lovely if you are cooking in an American or Northern
European style. But Teppanyaki is supposed to be Japanese, and
traditional Japanese cooking doesn't use dairy. Changes the flavor all
together.

OK, modern Japanese cooks do occasionally use butter, under some
circumstances, and they have definitely discovered the joys of ice
cream... red bean ice cream is good stuff...  but you shouldn't have
dairy sneak up on you, so to say, in a Japanese meal. You should know
you are eating an exotic flavor.

The Japanese cooking fat is vegetable oil, which, until recently, was
terribly expensive. People didn't really use it much at home. Instead,
they developed a collection of deep fried foods, such as tempura, and
fried tofu, which could be prepared in shops. One ate tempura or fired
noodles out, one bought aburage, fried tofu, in shops and used it in
cooking to add the richness of the oil. These balanced the otherwise
extremely low fat diet.

Anne

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Ana replied to me with:
>
>> Yes, it is, I ate on one of these yesterdat but became dissapointed.
>> The guy
>> grilled the fish dry and fried the eggs on butter.
>
>
> What is wrong with frying the eggs in butter? What would you have
> preferred?
> Olive oil?
>
>> It was my fourth teppanyaki
>> experience and the worst of it, in despite it is Swedens most
>> respected. The best
>> one was in Frankfurt, two months ago, the guy was a Hong-Kong chinese
>> who did
>> wonderful art with the knives, slicing clams on the air. Very
>> effectful kind of
>> prepare the food, circus and food...
>
>
> How can you slice clams in the air? I don't imagine you mean catching
> the clams between the two blades. That would seem to be rather hard
> on the blade edges. I would think that the clams would be rather
> lightwieght and rubbery, so they would tend to bounce off the blade
> edge rather than being sliced.
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