Food (Part I, 1950s)

for [Music] seeing Japan brings you three intriguing Japanese meals in a famous Tokyo Garden restaurant at the [Music] chinzanso proper attire for this jingus Khan menu enjoyed Outdoors are happy coats and Farmers [Music] hats the jingus Khan barbecue style comes from Mongolia lamb pork beef and chicken are boiled on a charcoal grill with vegetables like sweet peppers onions and eggplants Savory sauces cool and flavor the meats try jingus Kan cooking once and you'll want the recipe for your barbecue at home [Music] if you eat too much there's a 200y old Garden at the chinzanso restaurant to explore while walking it all Sukiyaki pronounced skaki by the Japanese is a dish best known to foreigners but unless you've eaten it in a first class restaurant in Japan you haven't tasted the real thing [Music] good skaki meat in thin slices from near the tenderloin almost melts in your mouth vegetable ingredients include mushrooms bamboo choots leaks a kind of vegetable spaghetti called Shirataki or anything else you like all cooked in sauce a little on the sweet side to bring out the flavor of the meats skaki is served with a beaten raw egg which cools the meat and add add still another flavor to the subtle [Music] taste skaki is somewhat slippery for the novice with chopsticks but a little practice allows one to keep up with the [Music] best accompanying the skaki and the raw egg are pickled vegetables and of course [Music] rice cold beer or hot sake are the traditional drinks for this meal now we enjoy tempera seafood and vegetables deep fried in flavoring oil shrimp sweet flesh riverfish mushrooms peppers and Tiny eggplant are included in the menu although temperate cooking looks deceptively simple everything must be just right the raw food the batter the oil and the timing of each [Music] ingredient tackling temper with chopsticks for the first time also can be difficult but the taste is so rewarding the satisfaction so great that it's worth the [Music] trouble cooking in Temper style intensifies the flavor of fish and [Music] vegetables there are many other kinds of Japanese food but for Western pallets a sampling of jingus Khan skaki and tempera are a splendid beginning to a gate Adventure while seeing Japan [Music]