Your Dining Room. Your Japanese Food. Your Umami.
A delectable Japanese meal served in a restaurant can often deliver a flavorful experience called umami. At Umami Insider, we believe that you can find the same experience in your own kitchen and dining room, when you cook and eat your favorite Japanese dish at home. You might think Japanese food is hard to cook, but there is no reason to fear trying your hand at recreating the same dishes you eagerly devour in the restaurant.
Umami Insider is happy to help you achieve cooking stardom. Through the wide variety of Japanese food recipes, ingredients, food culture and cooking tips shared on our site, you’ll soon see that these complex looking dishes are not so difficult to create on your own, in your own kitchen.
Umami…?
It has been mentioned before — in movies and television shows, by food critics, chefs and dining connoisseurs. But only when you have experienced umami for yourself can you really understand exactly what it is. It is much more than something that simply “tastes good.” Even in Japan, where the word was originated, people have trouble describing exactly what umami is.
But once you fully become immersed in a meal, entranced by the indescribable flavors that seem to weave a spell over your taste buds, you’ll know umami. Perhaps you’ve already felt this mysterious and sought-after emotional reaction before. On the other hand, perhaps you’ve yet to discover how a meal can elevate your senses and lift your spirits.
If so, search no more. Through our ever-growing collection of Japanese food recipes and introductions to flavorful and healthy Japanese ingredients, you’ll find that cooking Japanese food in your own home kitchen can be a remarkably fun activity. And once you taste what you have created, you’ll truly know umami.
