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Omuraisu (Omelet Rice)
Omuraisu, which is short for Omelet Rice, is a Japanese comfort food. You can find it on any “Family Restaurant” or FamiResu or Diner menu and it comes out with a tiny little flag toothpick. Really. That’s just how it is, man. This dish consists of 2 components, rice fried with ketchup (no joke – I guess culinary geniuses can do something with crushed tomatoes) with an omelet on top.
I like the stir-fry the rice with Ketchup, Sriracha, Japanese mayonaise, mustard, onions, garlic, and bacon/ham. This gives it a creamy, but spicy, consistency. My mom likes to put some onion, scallions, and chicken. It’s really any type of fried rice you want. My mom makes a flat out omelet, while I like the fluffify my egg and beat the whites, mix some milk, and mix some dash, salt, and mirin. I cover it on the cast iron, which make sit puff up. Serve up before the egg fully cooks and hardens so it’s nice and soft.
Top with ketchup & mayonaise… and even tonkotsu sauce if you like. Insert flag toothpick in the egg if you have.
This is the tastiest comforting food ever. I used to eat this for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It’s sort of the chicken nuggets/mac n’ cheese equivalent of a Japanese child’s diet. This is the fall back recipe for any child that doesn’t want to eat whatever is put in front of them.
I never ordered this as a child… (I remember specifically loving the order ramens and corn cream soup – which is another story/addiction all together) at the restaurant, but I would love it and beg my mom to make it. It’s everything you would like, carbs, eggs, ketchup.
 
Few weekends ago Ryan tried to recreate his father’s crepes. The crepes themselves were adapted from various online recipes:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Or something like that. The real interesting things happen with the fillings and toppings. Next time, I want to make a simple egg custard. This time around, Ryan made some savory crepes by frying up bacon to a crisp and pulsed them in the food processor. Them he mixed the crushed bacon with oregon gouda shavings. For a sweet crepe, we just used some confectionary sugar and lemon.
Light, simple, savory, and sweet.
 
Woorijip
12 W 32nd St
New York, NY 10001
In the beginning, the ONLY savior around this place was K-Town. Although the prices aren’t sky high, the lines are long and there are LOTS of people. In times like this, a Korean Buffet take out place is great. This place has a reputation for their foods to be like home cooked meals. THey have hot buffets, noodle bar in the back, and prepackaged hot and cold foods. You can have some soju/sake/beer (not that I do for lunch) or any variety of drinks. The price is decent, $6.50 a pound for the buffet. You can get a decent meal here for under $10.
My coworker likes to get the hot foods, such as bulgogi beef stir fries and sweet sour chickens, etc… However, my favorite thing about this place is that they have such a large vegetable options (not to be confused with vegetarian – unfortunately I don’t think most Asian things are vegetarian friendly). I get their cooked baby bok choys, kimchees, spicy bean sprouts, as well as items like, vegetable and seafood pancakes (yum), spicy mabo tofu, and fried tofu. In the picture on the left, I got some edamame, some mackerel, pancake, kimchee, vegetable rolls dipped in sauce, and vegetarian maki roll. I also sometimes pick up their spicy soup. I haven’t had a chance to try their noodle bar in the back, but they have items like udon, kimchee stew, etc…
I like to tell myself this is healthy, but I usually go a little overboard in these types of places. Definitely one of my “go-to” lunch places here!
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Umi 
"There is very little that I cannot / wouldn't eat. However, Ryan was able to get a good laugh out of a panicked look I had on my face while drowning back raw baby squid with beer."
Ryan 
Ryan needs to write a blurb here about himself. Like the time he almost lost his shit over the greatness that is Japanese Bento and set lunches. Needless to say, we both like to eat very much. This is where Umi and Ryan discuss food There will be food reviews, recipes, links to resources, food news, and general food talk.
This website was coded in textwrangler on a mac by Umi H. She and her cat spent many hours one night not sleep or chasing shadows on a wall.
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