Japanese food glossary -V-Z - Japanese cooking vocabularies

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Japanese Cooking Ingredients and Vocabularies: V-Z

V-Z

Wakame	Lobe-leaf seaweed. It is often used to moso soup and salad.	Photo: Wakame
Waribashi	Wooden disposal chopsticks.
Wasabi	Japanese horseradish. Wasabi feature Wasabi Dressing recipe	Photo: Wasabi
Yakidofu	Grilled tofu.
Yakimono	Indicates dishes that are grilled
Yakitori	Skewered and Grilled chicken.	Photo: Yakitori
Yokan	Japanese sweet which is made from agar, sugar and azuki-bean.
Yudofu	Boiled tofu.
Yuzu	Japanese citrus fruit. The zest is used for cooking.
Zaru	Bamboo basket.
Zoni	Rice cake soup. It is commonly eaten during New Year's holidays.

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