Rika yukimasa husband

Rika yukimasa husband: “Dining with the Chef” on Create

A lot of the dishes have the same simple ingredients, like mirin, sake, soy sauce. But the basic ingredients [are] as you said — sake, mirin, soy sauce and then maybe dashi. We can just recreate everything even without dashi, because chicken or fish, all these proteins creates own dashi. So, as long as you have sake, mirin, soy sauce, and sugar.

Many times we add sugar to our main ingredients, then we can recreate what you eat at the restaurant. I notice sugar is always in there. A lot people are cutting out sugar, but in Japan they always put a little sugar? We add a little sugar to each dish to act sort of like umami flavor to us. When you take everything in total, the amount of sugar intake is less than what you guys have in Western food.

So instead of serving a lot, we serve a little bit less, so that people would have more stomach to enjoy anything else. Japanese desserts are not very sweet, so you can taste the chocolate.