Out of curiosity, do you guys branch out to Chinese? Not the typical fare but dim sum and soup dumplings are awesome.
Not really. She's always teaching herself to make more great stuff than she already does, but she favours French and Italian cuisine when not cooking Japanese. They're both quite popular in Japan.
On one visit to Japan, we joined another couple, friends of hers, for dinner at a restaurant belonging to a Japanese chef who had trained in Italy. It was a full five-course set menu and OMFG--talk about the best of both worlds... The smelts were like if French fries were fish, for example. Speaking of French food, she made a glorious cheesecake too. Sorry for not getting a pic but both yesterday and today I was too preoccupied with eating the fucking thing lol.
Tonight's delight,
Sunomono on the side (cucumber salad), with seaweed, mock crab (Surimi), and these itty bitty fish whose name I can never remember, topped with a fantastically sour dressing. In the tea cups,
chawanmushi (looks like pudding with mushrooms but it's egg steamed by dashi, with shiitake mushrooms and a bit of protein in suspension (like you put in the middle of onigiri---
@koquerelle)--usually chicken in her case; it's to die for regardless of what it looks like, to accompany a sushi dish (in the large bowls) that, like chawanmushi, tastes a thousand times as good as it looks
For the missus, it's traditional to have sushi on this date:
https://www.belongingjapan.com/culture/seasonal-customs/hinamatsuri-festival-japans-girls-day-guide/
The rice underneath the visible elements, nori, egg, and shrimp, contains various others, like mushroom and carrot. I can't even remember them all. Oishii AF.
You know, it strikes me really funny that the jealous trolls above don't seem to realize that if my wife is something I made up I must be some kind of fucking genius--speaker of several languages, owner of a successful business (successful enough to afford buying my own house in this market with zero help, at any rate), expert cook, world traveller, near-professional-quality photographer, and the list goes on and on.
It's amazing what jealousy will do to people. Especially, semi-anonymous weirdos on the internet.
Edit: she sent me a couple of links via text of places in Canada where you can get chuno sauce but it's late and I'm too lazy to post them now--I'll drop them here tomorrow. That's mainly an FYI for
@koquerelle
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