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Okonomiyaki although I'm still learning how to properly make rice for sushi.

I would love to learn how to make a proper dashi stock. Sumimasen!

Overdone, true, but I would love to learn how to put together sushi properly. I've never done it at home because my significant other is paranoid about working with raw fish, but I would like to give it a shot at least once =D

Ah, Morimoto-san. The most masterful (nay, sexiest?) Iron Chef that ever was. May your cookbook find its way to me!

FUGU!

Not really cooked but it's still a Japanese dish.

Ala Cuisine!!!

Udon!

I love this cookbook, but haven't made anything out if it yet. My favorite cookbook to be nominated this year is Fuchsia Dunlop's "Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes from Hunan Province". Absolutely amazing, wonderful curated photos, and delicious recipes. My husband and I cooked out of it for a month straight and loved near everything it produced.

Agadashi Tofu. Nummy.

Something like Beef Teriyaki, or really any beef dish

I'd like to know how to cook Okonomiyaki

Sushi! - Especially spicy tuna. I'd like to get to the point where I could work my way around an Asian market and not feel like a fish out of water.

Eggplant Shigiyaki

Hamachi Kama! Once I find some cheeks ...

Okonomiyaki

My girlfriend loves chicken teriyaki, but can't find any edible samples of it here. I'd love to make it for her.

I would love to make a traditional Japanese dish of just about anything.

I don't have that much experience with cooking Japanese food for myself - I'd love to learn how to make the sushi rice risotto, or other non-sushi cuisine.

Okonomiyaki has always given me trouble when cooking it. I would love to learn how.

absolutely love teriyaki chicken or maybe some stir fry!! thanks for this contest!

I'd love to say something complicated, but what sounds delicious right now is omusoba.

I'd love to learn more about how to properly compose sushi.

Beef Yaki Udon

Tamagoyaki - intimidates the hell out of me.

What's not to love about Okonomiyaki, but I also want to learn Katsu Donburi, and also some really good robotayaki dishes.

Actually a year long Japanese Cooking school would be right up my alley.

I would like to make cucumber with Japanese bean paste.

takoyaki!

Shabu-Shabu.

I'd like to learn to make more Japanese pickles.

I would love to learn how to make vegetable tempura.

Eggplant Shigiyaki sounds good

Sounds like we are all having a Eggplant Shigiyaki party. YUM YUM!!!! ;-) Thanks.

Eggplant shigiyaki

sukiyaki

I'd like to learn how to make Kaiseki Ryori.

Udon!!!

I think I'd like to learn how to make proper soup bases for udon, ramen, miso, etc. Plus, the nuances between all the different types of miso!

I love sukiyaki, and would love to be able to make it at home!

Okonomiyaki

I've never made sushi before, and have always wanted to try.

Pad Thai

udon

I'd love to learn how to properly make sushi! Been wanting to for a long time...

I'd like to learn how to make unusual styles of sushi, beyond the basics.

Soybean nato!!! Stinky but tasty...

And who doesn't love BBQ eel?!?!?!

In a Japanese restaurant I had a dumpling called dango that was very good and a sponge cake called kasutera that we all liked

My wife and I had an amazing Omakase meal at our local Japanese restaurant last week. If we could cook even one of the dishes we had there, we'd be happy monkeys. Beef-tongue stew or Cod with Miso-Garlic sauce would be near the top of the list. I don't know if the book would have those, but one can dream...

I've always wanted to learn how to make yakisoba :)

Homemade Tofu

I cook quite a bit of Japanese food, but I haven't really gotten around to trying my hand at Japanese desserts. Therefore I guess I'd really like to learn how to make mochi.

It's a tie between yakisoba and UDON.

I would most love to learn from the master Morimoto how to cut, dice, chop, butcher, and use knives as wonderfully and expertly has he does. It is amazing to watch.

I'd really like to master miso! My 2 teenage daughters are constantly stuffing odds and ends into either wanton skins to make dumplings or wrapping something inside of rice and seaweed and calling it onigiri.

sushi

Sushi

the best way to make shiitake mushrooms.

I'd like to know more about Japanese stocks and broths...and more uses for miso.

love his little ponytail!

My family loves sushi.

Sushi.

I once asked a couple sushi chefs (in the states, who were Chinese and Korean, both native English speakers) which restaurants had okonomiyaki on the menu. They said that the best you could get was something you made at home. I know it's true, I'm just fond of it being made for me. Sigh.

Wait, no. I changed my mind! I want to learn how to make a proper omu-rice. I feel like if I tried it on my own, it wouldn't be so pretty. (Why do I have this feeling that Morimoto would just shake his head and sigh if he saw this?)

I'd love to learn to make any kind of Japanese soup. I've yet to run across one I haven't loved.

sushi sushi sushi

I would like to know what to do with won tons

I just want to learn how to make perfectly grilled hibachi steaks and shrimp.

Learn how to make my own noodles (udon or soba)

I want to learn to make Nasu Hasami-age. Deep fried stuffed eggplant.

Goma-ai!

It's a toss-up between learning how to properly cook okonomiyaki or learning to prepare a tasty udon soup.

I love Morimoto- I have eaten at a couple of restaurants with the Iron Chefs that challenge him and they have always been excellent. I cannot wait to one day dine upon his creations!

Sushi and udon soup.

i want to learn some new seaweed salad dishes.

The journey of a lifetime begins with a first step. I'd really love to learn how to make sushi rice.

I'd like to learn the perfect seaweed salad. Or gyoza.

Okonomiyaki ROCKS! but I don't know how to make it

I would love to cook Shabu-Shabu!

sushi

sukiyaki love it when out dining

Pad Thai is thai.
Won tons are chinese.
Gyoza are chinese too.

I think you should give it to one of the people who answered with cuisine from the wrong culture -_-

Eggplant

Agedashidofu. I'm pretty good with sushi, ginger dressings, tempura, you know, but I just can't get the tofu thing down. I order it all the time and love the creamy tofu and crispy crust, and I'd love to learn how to make it.

Dashi

udon and dashi would be great basics to have in my repetoire

I'd love to make Okonomiyaki.

I'd like to make the perfect udon and tonkatsu.

good sushi rice

Miso Soup and Sushi

Okonomiyaki

Gancy sushi - you know, the ones with crazy designs inside.

Shrimp Tempura for me!

Um.. that would be fancy, not gancy.

Greetings! Our family likes Japanese Stir Fry! My husband gets fresh vegetables, chicken, spices, etc. and it is wonderful. Thanks,Cindi

i'd like to make food shabu shabu style

Udon noodle soup. Just in time for next winter! Ha.

I like Beef, Pork and Rice dishes. I'm always looking for new ways to prepare them.

I would def like to know how to make sushi once and for all!

My dad is obsessed with Morrimoto, AND his birthday is the next month. So even if I don't win, I'll probably buy it for him anyway!

I would love to learn to make okonomiyaki and pickles! Yum!

Udon soup and good shrimp tempura

The sushi rice risotto sounds enticing.

Okonomiyaki

Yummmm seseme chicken

any sushi that is vegan but also sophisticated

I would like to try okonomiyaki.

I would like to find new things to do with EggPlant

Years ago I had a Japanese friend who made the best Udon. I wish I'd had him teach me.

I love anything tempura - would love to know how to make it properly.

morimoto is a new fave of mine i'd love to cook myself

Probably totally unfancy, but I remember from a million years ago (when I was ten) eating rice with green tea and seaweed for breakfast and loving it. I've tried to reproduce it but I'm probably not using the right kind of tea or rice or seaweed - maybe there's some dashi included somewhere?

Food eaten once as a child that you can never find again. There's something about that.

I've eaten at Morimoto's restaurant in Philadelphia and had some pretty wonderful food. I'd like to go back again some day.

I love Morimoto as an Iron Chef! I would love to perfect Sukiyaki, it's delicious! Thanks for the great give away!

I'd love to learn to make Tempura - thank you for the great contest!

I am obsessed with Iron Chef America. I love to watch Morimoto work. I'd like to learn how to make salmon onigiri. Sounds yummy.

Tonkatsu. Delicious, deep fried pork. Or one of the majority of Japanese dishes that would actually lower my cholesterol.

Sushi

I'd love to learn how to make udon~ yum!

konnyaku, with various traditional pickles as a close second.

Eggplant shigiyaki

I haven't made many Japanes dishes but udon sounds wonderful.

Udon...

I would love to learn how to make a good Okonomiyaki.

would really like to learn to make udon.

Just about anything... Tempura, proper sushi, Japanese salads... the list goes on.

Lobster Nabe with Tofu.

I love morimoto, I have been watching him on tv since the 90's! Would love to have his book, thank you for th contest!

I would love to learn to make yakisoba! Thanks!

Chawan-mushi

Sushi

My husband and I are wanting to learn how to make sushi and tempura.

Ebi Kimizushi - I always screw up the egg yolk. Sushi isn't that hard, I don't know why I keep %&$*ing this up. LOL

i know absolutely nothing about Japanese cooking so this would be a perfect way to learn

I really want to master miso soup and sukiyaki... that will be a nice day.

I haven't been able to cook any Japanese cuisine that tasted good so we always eat out when we have the taste for it. I'd like help with the whoe cuisine.

I would love to learn traditional Japanese knife skills and knife care.

If i can learn to make yaki soba, i will be very very happy

Would love to learn any!! But Shabu-Shabu would be a great start!!

I would love to make a Japanese tempura. It is very light compared with other tempuras.

Seeing as my japanese cooking abilities are very limited.. Id love to be able to make anything japanese!!


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yes please

Probably Unagi Don. I LOVE eel. YUM I would also love to learn how to make the japanese staple, Miso Soup. I've always wanted to try it but have never been able to find all of the ingredients.

yakisoba

Inspired by the recent showdown on ICA, more uses for ginger, beyond stirfry/soup seasonings

sushi

Sushi

Sushi, because I honestly don't know a thing about it. Never tried it, never even seen it.

Rice balls with plum inside that don't fall apart. And well-packed bento lunches.

I had a Japanese caregiver who sliced and diced vegetables in an almost magical way. I'd like to learn the art of cutting vegetables for Vegetable Tempura.

I have never tried cooking japanese cuisine. Would like to give it a try.

I would love to learn to make sushi, my family would love it, the cats would love it.......also veggie tempura..yum!

rolls with red bean paste in side them and red bean ice cream

Sushi Rice Risotto

I would love to cook and make red bean ice cream

I would love to learn how to make a special spinach dish that I had at the Japan Inn in Washington, DC.

I'd love to learn to make a perfect sashimi salad.

I've never had japanese food

I would love to learn to make authentic sushi...

I would like to learn tempura.

Japanase cooking is the best.

Yum, Japanese food!

Japanese cuisine is one that I haven't explored yet. I would like to start with sushi.

I'd like to learn how to do tempura!

chicken katsu

tempura!

I would like to learn how to make sushi.. and make it look pretty.

seaweed salad. I love the stuff and can't get enough.

Tempura

I want to make a great seaweed salad!

Sushi for me

I LOVE YOUR BOOK

Shabu-Shabu Thanks

SUSHI

yellowtail sashimi

I would love to learn how to make mochi!

Tokyo X!

Hope rolls!

I would love to learn how to make Pad Thai!

I would love to learn how to make Pad thai!!!

OHHH!!! Sushi and Hot Pot, a hot noodle soup with veggie and seafood. Devine.

I have limited knowledge of Japanese cooking outside sushi. I'd love to have a good Sunomono recipe, though!

Oh so many things! Black cod miso, dashi stock, chasu ramen... I could go on!

I would love to make sushi and the Sushi Rice Risotto. I'm all about the fusion of flavors.

pot stickers

Speedo123 and Catalyst,

Pad Thai isn't Japanese......

I'm just starting out cooking Japanese cuisine. I would love to be able to make sushi!

I don't think enough Japanese restaurants offer okonomiyaki on their menus, so that's what I would love to master.

I also love the subtle taste of a lot of Japanese salad dressings.

Tampopo

Sushi - I LOVE sushi

agedashi tofu, gom-ae, and a good miso salad dressing. please?

anything tempura

sushi, thanks for the contest!

ginger dressing or maybe Saba Shioyaki

Tempura ga tabetai des.

Sushi, mine never taste like the resturant

Shrimp Tempura

I really want to learn how to make Sushi.

Sushi rice yum yum.

sushi sushi sushi please!

I would love to know how to make Okonomiyaki!
Thanks :)

this looks great

katsu

Nobu's Miso Black Cod - Delicious.......

Chawanmushi!

me love morimoto

I hope to learn Okonomiyaki! The perfect izukaya snack!

I can't make anything Japanese right now, but top of the list would be sushi, spicy salmon and tempura.

Tempura-fried okra. How's that for fusion?

I would love to learn how to make sushi.

And seaweed salad. My favorite japanese restaurant serves this with smoke squid and it is divine.

I would love to be able to make a really good warming comfort-food miso soup with tiny perfect cubes of tofu and bits of seaweed.

My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

I'd love to learn to cook 'true' japanese food but I'll start simply w/ Miso soup.

tonkatsu

baby tako sunomono

i'd like to learn to cook teriyaki anything, hehe!

Tempura

i'd like to learn to cook anything japanese!

my japanese sister-in-law has a way of broiling salmon which I haven't been able to master despite her telling me how easy it is.

So simple, but I would like to make both good seaweed/spinach salad and some new takes on udon.

I'd love a simple recipe for ochazuke. Comfort food, esp for these endless winter days!

any vegetarian dish - veggie tempura and sushi too!

I love watching iron chef. These recipes would be so good.

anything tempura. I don't like raw food so much

Sushi!

cook books {Sigh}

i love iron chef!!!

I'd love to learn to make a good miso soup.

-Rini

sukiyaki

Chazuke...a simple, but delicious dish...

What I really need is to find isome tofu recipes so my kids will eat it! I love it myself! Morimoto's the master - I have faith!

I would like to learn how to make a good miso soup.

Shabu shabu

Love him on Iron chef and would love to win this baby! : )

I would like to make those Beautiful japanese candies that are translucent. If that's out of reach - a miso coated cod would rock.

chawan-mushi

I would love to make sushi, even though my husband doesn't like it. More for me, and that eggplant Shigiyaki sounds delicious!

Miso Soup

I've been to Japan and cook Japanese dishes in my home.

thank you

I love Japanese food!

The recipe i wish to cook is...
Japanese style crispy fried chicken tidbits
and soba noodles with green onion broth. I love
cooking for my family it's a lifetime journey of learning.

This would be so cool.

shabu shabu

Love sushi!!

Sushi, to find a variety that my girlfriend will actually like.

that or anything utilizing ginger. oh man i love ginger.

oh god, wish I knew a good recipe for tonkatsu.