Monica Lestari Pardosi

                                     ZOSUI              Zosui or ojiya, is a light and thin Japanese rice soup like rice vegetable soup. Zosui is made from pre-cooked rice and water flavored with soy sauce or miso and cooked with other ingredients such as meat, seafood, mushrooms and vegetables.      There are a number of zosui varieties, including maru zosui made with Chinese softshell turtles, zosui fugu, tori zosui made with chicken, zōsui kani made with crabs, zosui sukiyaki, and zosui shabu-shabu. For home cooking, the remaining broth and rice are combined with whatever ingredients are available.          There are some different of Zosui or Ojiya     Zosui is prepared by rinsing the rice first to increase its elasticity. This is not the case with the ojiya. In zosui, the broth and rice ar...

                                              MELON PAN            Melon pan is sweet bread from Japan in the form of biscuit dough bread (pastries) on top. melon bread, this bread doesn't taste melon at all, it's just a round shape and the top of the bread looks like melon skin. Biscuit dough is made from eggs, flour, granulated sugar, and butter.      Melonpan is a snack consisting of Japanese bread. Melonpan has been recognized by many Japanese over 10 years ago.      Melonpan does not have melon flavor. However, at this time there are many melonpan containing melon cream in it. In addition, there are also melonpan containing chocolate chips, green tea flavors, and so on.       In addition, in some regions of Japan, there is also a round shape melonpan as we have introduced at the begi...

                             MAKIZUSHI a.Definition              Makizushi is type of Japanese food sushi roll filled with various fillings . The term makizushi refers to the fact that the sushi is rolled : maki means " to roll " and zushi is conjugated version of the word " sushi " . Makizusho is the best-known type of sushi outside of Japan .       Makizushi arealso refered to as nori maki or norimaki because the sushi rice and fillings are all wrapped up or rolled insideroasted , dried seaweed. In japanese cuisine , this seaweed is known as nori .        Makizushi and norimaki are often used interchangeably as a general category for sushi roll . They can also refer to larger or fatter sushi rolls , such as futomaki . b. Variation of Makizushi         Makizushi can be filled with a variety of ingredients , inc...