Need help with buying food and finding recipes

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1. > wondering if people had any recommendations for websites or books with Japanese reciepes.

   Have you tried cookpad?

   >but if there are other good stores I would also appreciate recommendations.

   Have you tried searching for supermarkets on Google Maps?

   >I am particularly big fan of seafood

   Have you tried looking up fish stores on Google Maps?

   >pans or cooking utensils companies

   Have you tried Nitori and Cainz?

2. I swear [by this website](https://www.justonecookbook.com/) and I think a lot of people do too. Japanese recipes written in English (by a native Japanese).

   As with u/ApplicationOk8228 said, most of your questions are easily searchable with google.

   Supermarket: just go to your nearest one. Go ahead and get fish if you want.

   Utensils: anything from ikea / nitori / nearest home center should be decent, as long as you take care of them

3. I would recommend buying an air fryer (Amazon), cheap, simple and healthy way to cook fish without stinking your place out. You can buy all sorts of fish, marinate it and then stick it in for about 13 mins and it’s as good as done. Can be had with rice, noodles or salad, recently I have been obsessed wth marinating salmon in gochujang and several herbs. I then mash it up and add to kimchi cha han.

   Perhaps invest in a good quailty cooking pot and a wok also.

   There are endless blog and YT accounts that focus on all sorts of Japanese homemade cooking so honestly just search whatever you fancy and there should always be several recipes to follow.

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   Happy cooking.

4. It sounds like you’re just getting into cooking. Try to keep it really simple for the first few months. Don’t go out and spend a lot of money on cookware right now. Spend a little bit of money, use what you have for a while, and then decide what you want to try next.

   Cooking can be really fun to do with other people, so if you can make friends with someone who has a little more experience, maybe they can teach you.

5. Things like curry and nikujaga are very easy! And you can make big portions to last you a couple of days, easily. These were some of the first Japanese recipes I learned when I first moved to Japan

6. Basics to have on hand: soy sauce, mirin, ryorishu sake, a lighter miso paste, white rice, carrots, potatoes, onions, daikon, cabbage, frozen green veggies that tend to go bad faster than the root vegetables mentioned, hondashi powder, salt, pepper

   Buy as needed: eggs, tofu, fish

   Things you can experiment with: furikake for sprinkling on rice, different kinds of tsukemono (pickled vegetables), sichimi or other pepper mixes

7. https://www.japanlivingguide.net/dailylife/food/japanese-recipes

   This website has what you need.

   Also it’s not Japanese but as a college kid I lived off of sausage and potato burritos. Get a 1lb tube a sausage, 1.5lbs of potatoes. Cut up potatoes and put in pan with some olive oil, cook until it’s soft, add your sausage and whatever add ons you like (I did mushrooms and garlic) and the. Finish cooking. Put on a tortilla with sour cream and put some hot sauce and cheddar cheese on it. Bam. Thank me later 😉

8. Google

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9. I use the app [Kurashiru](https://www.kurashiru.com/) available on Apple and Play stores. comes with a video tutorial and has a pretty easy to read ui with all the ingredients and methods for every meal (also good for learning Japanese).