Japanese Food Tips

The best-selling creamy dressing in Japan is mayonnaise, and the second most popular is roasted sesame seed dressing. The main ingredients are roasted sesame paste, soy sauce, salad oil, egg yolk, sugar, and vinegar. Sesame seed dressing is used not only for raw vegetable salads, but also for hot vegetables, pork shabu-shabu, boiled chicken and as part of the dipping sauce for udon (thick white noodles) and somen (thin white noodles). Sesame seed dressing is sold by various Japanese food manufacturers. Each sesame seed dressing has a different flavor of sesame seeds, a different acidity, a different sweetness, and a different amount of oil, healthy or not so healthy. As a result, the prices are different, and the creaminess and taste are distinctive. If you are interested in sesame seed dressings, you may be able to buy them by mail order or at Japanese food stores.