Yakiudon: Sauteed Noodles with Okonomi Sauce

When I want to kill a lot of veggies before they go bad, sauteed veggies (Stir fry) can be one of the options.

If you saute boiled noodles with those veggies, it will be yakiudon♪

How you season yakiudon varies.
Some people like it with soy sauce based flavor, while others prefer Worcestershire sauce.
Also, there are a flavor with miso and simply salted one.

My style here is done with Otafuku okonomi sauce which is often used for my hometown Hiroshima's soul food okonomiyaki.
This is a little sweeter than other sauce, so I like sprinkling some dried chili pepper blend called shichimi which is sold as "nanami" in the United States.  

For today's yakiudon, I killed some mushrooms, a carrot and a leftover green pepper♪

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Ramen Noodles with Black Fungus + Midori Sriracha

I guess Japan must be having its rainy season right now.
It was wet and misting day here in NY too, so I decided to make ramen noodles (chicken) in soup instead of cold noodles.

As I always do, I cooked noodles and the soup separately.

I put some rehydrated black fungus into the soup and cooked them together.
They say black fungus is a great poop medicine and good for a diet♪

The ramen noodles are topped with some steamed veggies (radishes and bok-choy) and cilantro.


I also tried adding this sauce I bought today.

This Midori Sriracha sauce made of serrano green peppers was very hot!!!

The label says "unique Japanese interpretation of the classic sauce" but..
I do not find any Japanese-ish element in it.

Green + spicy → can remind us of wasabi.... but...

Japanese cuisine is not really that hot.

All I could find Japanese was "rice vinegar" as one of the ingredients.

Anyway, the sauce was really hot, so we need to be careful not to put too much, but the noodles with heat of Midori Sriracha was actually pretty good♪

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