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gyōza a kind of Chinese dumpling ( jiaozi), usually filled with a<br />

mixture of minced pork, cabbage and Chinese chives (Allium<br />

tuberosum), and steam-fried<br />

gyūnabe beef and other ingredients cooked in a cast-iron pan, flavoured<br />

with miso or soy sauce; a predecessor of sukiyaki<br />

hagate a meagre peasant dish consisting of rice, millet and barley<br />

cooked with chopped daikon leaves<br />

hishio an ancient category of fermented food products, with three<br />

major types – vegetable-based, fish or meat-based, and grainbased;<br />

the last is the prototype for today’s soy sauce and miso<br />

honzen ryōri a formal, opulent banquet with a large number of dishes served<br />

simultaneously at several small tables<br />

horumonyaki grilled tripe and offal; a wartime dish of Korean origin and a<br />

predecessor of yakiniku<br />

kabu turnip, Brassica campestris var. glabra<br />

kaiseki short for kaiseki ryōri (kaiseki cuisine), a refined meal consisting<br />

of several courses served in sequence; two styles of kaiseki are<br />

distinguished: the tranquil and minimalist ‘tea kaiseki’ (chakaiseki)<br />

and the more flamboyant ‘restaurant kaiseki’ or ‘banqueting<br />

kaiseki’ (enkaiseki)<br />

kaitenzushi ‘rotary sushi’: sushi served on a conveyor belt<br />

kanpan ship’s biscuits<br />

Kantōni ‘nimono from the Kantō region’, an alternative name for oden<br />

karintō one of the oldest Japanese sweets: pieces of dough made of<br />

flour, water and egg, deep-fried and coated with brown sugar<br />

katemeshi a meagre peasant dish consisting of rice, millet and barley<br />

cooked with chopped daikon<br />

katsu karē breaded cutlet in curry sauce on rice<br />

kimuchi a Japanese name of a Korean-style pickle (kimch’i), made of<br />

salted vegetables fermented with red chilli pepper, garlic,<br />

green onions, ginger, seafood and other ingredients, very<br />

popular in Japan<br />

kimuchi nabe a variety of ingredients simmered directly at the table in a large<br />

earthenware pot, flavoured with kimuchi<br />

kishimen wide and flat wheat noodles, a speciality of Nagoya<br />

Konbu kelp, Laminaria spp., customarily used dried for making stock<br />

konnyaku a gelatinous paste made from the root of devil’s tongue,<br />

Amorphophallus rivieri var. konjac, formed into bricks<br />

kuchitori assorted appetizers; the first course in the ‘restaurant kaiseki’<br />

menu<br />

kuromame small black beans, Glycine max<br />

mabodōfu a dish of Sichuan origin (mapo doufu): minced pork stir-fried<br />

with tōfu in hot chilli sauce<br />

makizushi sushi roll: rice flavoured with vinegar, salt and sugar, stuffed<br />

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