Japanese Homestyle Food, Like Your Mother Used to Make

Japanese Homestyle Food, Like Your Mother Used to Make

by Kye Westfall

In Pocatello you can buy almost any fast food that suits your fancy. With an abundance of cultures thanks to the University, it's not hard to find a restaurant that has another culture's cuisine. Yet in Pocatello there is an over-saturation of Mexican and Chinese food, and some countries are not represented as much as they should be.

  Japan is one of those countries that is under represented. Sumisu, a local restaurant in Pocatello, has the best sushi you can find in Idaho, but it doesn't have what really makes Japan's cuisine delicious: curry.

Curry is Japan's national dish and there's nothing like curry to fill you up on a cold day. Japanese curry is sweeter than Indian curry, and a lot more mild. Packed with large potatoes, sliced carrots, luscious onions, and shoyu chicken (Yoshida’s soy sauce chicken dish) all mixed in a thick sauce laced over steaming hot white rice, you wish you had found Yoshida a lot sooner.

Sanae Wood, the owner of Yoshida, was originally from Fujiyoshida, Japan, a city about the size of Pocatello. Far from the ocean and the styles of cooking featured on the coast, she grew up learning how to make what she calls "riceballs with meat." Her modest view of her own food is respectable, considering the food at Yoshida is some of the best you can get in town. Yoshida is also themed after Wood's hometown, and after Japan's highest mountain, Mount Fuji. Wood grew up in the shadow of Mount Fuji, and in 1991 she moved to Idaho, and brought her cooking skills with her. Founded in only two years ago, Yoshida has a ways to go, and with it's excellence it will go far. 

Read my full review: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mSI6tQdTkndBFv0zjJyiWevOtXJde8jZ11CtODWHpvs/edit?usp=sharing