Variety of Japanese and Asian Spices and Ingredients!

Being exposed to a wide range of new ingredients and products, I have decided to share a few of these amazing new products. Most of these products are widely used in Asian Cuisine and can only be found in certain stores that specialise in Asian Cuisine. I have included the traditional name as well as a rough translation of what each item actually is.  As time goes on and I become more familiar with these ingredients I will post some of my own recipes. So keep an eye out for those in the next month or so. Hope you all learn something new and put it to use next time you make a Asian fest for your Family or friend. Or even if you just able to identify those ingredients you never knew on the menu at you favourite Asian restaurant. 

Ingredients List 

1. Takano Stame - Dried Chilli
2. Kochukaro- Red Pepper flakes 
3. Szechuan Povar - Mixture of Spices native to the Szechuan Province of China 
4. Hondashi Gyomuyou - concentrated grains of bonito flakes used for flavouring 
5. Itogaki Katsuo - Fine shaved Bonito Flakes 
6. Shisen Tobanjan - Assorted Chilli Paste 
7. Moniji Orashi -Chilli Paste 
8. Hoisen Sauce - Thick sauce made from soy beans, vinegar, sugar, garlic and various spices
9. Goma Abura - Sesame Seed Oil 
10. Nata mame no Hanna - Prepared sword bean blossoms 
11. Yuzu Kusho - Spicy citrus paste (yuzu, Japanese citrus fruit similar to lemons in appearance) 
12. Nagai’s Aonori Ko - Prepared Sea Weed
13. Kozuru Zero - 0% Saki (Rice Wine) 
14. Matcha Midori - Green Tea 
15. Layu - Sesame seed chilli oil 
16. Kaiso salad - Sea weed salad 
17. Me hijiki - Sea weed (fine black) 
18. Saitaku sushi nori - sushi sea weed sheets 
19. Yakisushinori - sushi nori (roasted, Gold brand)
20. Itagaki Katsuo- shaved Bonito 
21. Fueru wakame - seaweed mix dried
22. Katsuo kombu awase dash - seaweed crushed dried bonito & kelp 
23. Kewpie (QP) - Sushi mayo 
24. Karashiko - Mustard powder 
25. Harusame - Cellophane noodles or Glass noodles made from starch and water
26. Dried Vermicelli noodles - Type of Rice noodles
27. Dashi kombu - Dried seaweed/ family of Kelp
28. Mizu Ame - Liquid Candy used as a sweetener (Millet Jelly)
29. Tankatsu Sauce - Thick brown sauce similar to HP sauce.
30. Mamenori San Goma - Soy bean sheets for sushi 
31. Rayu - Chilli infused vegetable oil 
32. Masago - Capelin roe
33. Negi - Japanese leak, mistaken for green onions 
34. Kanikama Mix - Artificially flavoured crab sticks made from white fish.   
35. Yamaimo - White Japanese yam/ wild yam
36. Sansho pepper - Powdered berry like fruits from the prickly ash tree. (Shuan Pepper)
37. Miso - Fermented Soy Beans 

---