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Kyoto daikon radishes. Agriculture began in Kyoto some twelve thousand years ago. It was the ancient capital of Japan and the home to the aristocracy. They supported a market for high-grade food. Kyoto is surrounded by mountains, making it difficult to transport seafood to the area. Instead, people cultivated the most delicious vegetables possible.
Oyster sauce describes a number of sauces made by cooking oysters.The most common in modern use is a viscous dark brown condiment made from oyster extracts, [1] [2] [3] sugar, salt and water, thickened with corn starch (though original oyster sauce reduced the unrefined sugar through heating, resulting in a naturally thick sauce due to caramelization, not the addition of corn starch).
The mushroom has a broad, fan or oyster-shaped cap spanning 2–30 centimetres (3 ⁄ 4 – 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches); [3] natural specimens range from white to gray or tan to dark-brown; the margin is inrolled when young, and is smooth and often somewhat lobed or wavy.
Owariya (Japanese: 尾張屋)or Honke Owariya is the oldest restaurant in Kyoto, Japan; it was founded in 1465. [1] The specialty are traditional buckwheat noodles, called soba. Japan's royal family has been known to eat at the restaurant. [2] The restaurant uses the "freshest" Kyoto spring well water to make its soup broth. [3]
Pleurotus citrinopileatus, the golden oyster mushroom (tamogitake in Japanese), is an edible gilled fungus. Native to eastern Russia , northern China , and Japan , the golden oyster mushroom is very closely related to P. cornucopiae of Europe , with some authors considering them to be at the rank of subspecies . [ 2 ]
The dish is prepared by coating raw oysters with flour and then covering them with panko flakes, a type of bread crumb. [3] The oysters are then deep-fried at about 180 °C (360 °F) for roughly two minutes, at which point, they should appear golden brown.
Pleurotus eryngii is the largest species in the oyster mushroom genus, Pleurotus, which also contains the oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus. It has a thick, meaty white stem and a small tan cap (in young specimens). Its natural range extends from the Atlantic Ocean through the Mediterranean Basin and Central Europe into Western Asia and India ...
Saikyoyaki (Japanese: 西京焼き) is a method of preparing fish in traditional Japanese cuisine by first marinating fish slices overnight in a white miso paste from Kyoto called saikyo shiro miso (西京白味噌). This dish is a speciality of Kyoto and the local white miso used for the marinade is sweeter than other varieties. [1]