This is a review of Taro Japanese restaurant in Finchley, North ondon in July 2021. All my restaurant reviews are unsponsored.

This week's recipe is Teriyaki Salmon Donburi. As you probably know, donburi in Japanese describes a dish where foods are presented on a...

My recipe this week is a Japanese classic - Gyudon - which translates rather simply as "beef bowl". I'll be the first to admit that...

I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that katsu are one of the most popular Japanese dishes, both in Japan and abroad. Most people...

Here's a recipe from my good friend, Yumiko Nikaido who resides in Tokyo. This is her sanshokudon which in Japanese (literally means...

Here is a classic Japanese dish that you'll find in homes and restaurants throughout the country. It's called Oyakodon, which means,...

The Japanese love their brown sauce. The leading brand (and to most Japanese the only brand) is Bulldog. If you've never tried Japanese...

If you haven't already noticed, I am a big fan of one bowl donburi dishes (a donburi being a bed of steamed rice on top of which a...

The Japanese have a love of abbreviations and so it is with this dish - "tendon" is the short form of "tempura donburi", meaning "tempura...

If you read my blog now and again, you'll know that the Japanese are big fans of Chinese food. Most ramen shops in Japan will have some...

Here's a recipe that you could call, with just a little stretch of the imagination, "Japanese fish and Chips". You get a fillet of cod...

Have you ever heard of KPop? It's South Korea's own brand of boy band & girl band pop music and over the last decade it has taken Japan...

i posted a recipe for Chinese style chicken chukadon earlier in the year and as it was well received, I thought I'd create another...

If ever there was the perfect warming dish for chilly nights, this is it - chicken katsudon. I'm sure you know about katsu, which is the...

We all deserve a nice treat now and again, don't we? Especially so in these strange times we're living through. When it comes to edible...