10.11.2009

Japanese sweets 和菓子いろいろ




Hello, how are you?
I would like to write about Japanese sweets. As I wrote here before, we make Japanese sweets everyday. Especially Japanese customers can enjoy them remembering farther Japan and Foreign customers who love Japanese sweets,too.
Some customers take care about much sugar. Japanese sweets are sweet but less calories comparing to the cakes which used butter, oil, milk and sugar. Most kinds of Japanese sweets are not used oil but just vegetables. Hope you enjoy our Japanese sweets, too!
In Japan, we can buy Japanese sweets at the shop. There are many kinds of varieties and I often can not choose one but buy more sweets. My mother has an experience to work at a Japanese sweets maker after she graduated from the college. She was curious how to make Japanese sweets and fortunately the owners allow her to learn them. She could luckily had learned some Japanese sweets. She sometimes says that she has never expected to make Japanese sweets in Sri Lanka!


これらは、カフェジャパンで出した和菓子の一部です。上の写真は栗蒸し羊羹、下は、ミニ紅白大福です。
日本に居たときには作ってもらった記憶がないのですが、母は、最初に和菓子屋さんに就職したそうです。その時に、その会社で色々なことを学ばせてもらったと話してくれました。和菓子職人さんがたくさんいる所にも、入らせてもらい直に色々なことを見れたと言っています。なかなか、中まで入らせてくれない所も多い中、社長さんには感謝しているといつも言っています。
その時の経験が今に生きると思わなかったともよく話しています。
「まさか、スリランカで和菓子を作るとは・・。」
私も、色々学びたいと思うのですが、怠け者の私は、いつまでたっても上手になりません。。
ちなみに、栗蒸し羊羹の側に写っている綺麗な蘭の花は「お店に飾ってください。」と、先日お客様がお持ち下さったものです。
何でも、お庭に100以上の蘭の花が咲いているとか。羨ましいです。

10.09.2009

KATSU-DON カツ丼


KATSU-DON is Pork cutlet and egg on rice bowl. Katsu means cutlet and Don means a bowl (Donburi in Japanese).
I think Katsu-Don is one of popular Japanese food. When I was a child, my favorite food was Katsu-don. If we say Katsu-Don, usually pork is used in Japan. You will discover that it is difficult to find Chicken Katsudon in Japan. However, in our menu, we have both Pork Katsu-don and Chicken Katsu-don since there are some people who do not eat pork in Sri Lanka. It is a little culture shock for us to have both Chicken katsudon and Pork Katsudon. ;> We are trying to repeat the customers' orders in order to avoid the mistakes chicken or pork. It is very important here!!
When some vegetarian customers asked vegetable-Don, we make it without pork and chicken and with egg or without egg.
Both Katsu-Don and Chicken Katsu-Don are very popular at our restaurant. It is interesting that they are popular among foreign and Sri Lankan customers,too.

おなじみのカツ丼です。日本人なら、カツ丼とくれば、ポークですが、スリランカにはポークやビーフを召し上がらない方もたくさんいらっしゃいます。ですので、鶏メニューは欠かせません。そこで、チキンカツ丼も用意しています。カツ丼は、スパイシーな料理に慣れたスリランカの人には受け入れられない味なのかなあと思っていましたが、意外や意外、とても人気のあるメニューです。
また、ベジタリアンのお客様でも、同じような丼ご飯を召し上がりになりたいお客様もいらっしゃるので、そういう時は、お肉を使わないで、野菜だけを玉子とじしてご飯の上に乗せています。これも、玉子の食べられないお客様ですと、お野菜だけになります。

10.01.2009

Daily Special (Today's special) lunch in October

How are you doing? October has come.
These are the daily special in October. We hope you enjoy the food!
Happy eating!

Sun

  Mon

  Tue

  Wed

   Thu

  Fri

 Sat

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Cooked rice with chicken and vegetable

2

Sauted pork with ginger soya sauce

3 Poya

4

5

Crispy chicken with soy sour sauce

6

Closed

7

Prawn tempura and egg on rice

8

Cream croquette

   9

Omlette stuffed with vegetable, cuttlefish and pork

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   12

  Rolled cabbage stuffed with minced pork

 

13

Closed

   14

Potato Croquette

  15

Secret day

(^o^)

  16

Minced pork and beef cutlet

 17

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   19

Vegetable fried rice and chicken curry marinade

  20

Closed

   21

Crispy pork on rice

   22

Skewered Chicken and vegetable cutlet

  23

Prawn tempura and egg on rice

 24

  25

  

  26

Potato croquette

  27

Closed

28

Crispy chicken with soy sour sauce

   29 

Sauted pork with miso

30  

Rolled cabbage stuffed with minced pork

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