Imamu room: Japanese home cooking

February 9, 2021 4:38 PM

A peaceful, down to earth YouTube channel with many interesting bento boxes (called "husbento" by the comment section) and home meals. Contains cooking and eating noises, background music, humorous English subtitles, and occasional short conversations with the husband and daughter.

A few assorted highlights:

• FAQ - they are a Japanese family living in Canada.
• Daily cooking. BREAKFAST: vegetable sausage soup, Japanese Napolitan pasta bun & egg salad bun, and mandarin orange (or mommy, according to the daughter). LUNCH: tabletop takoyaki. DINNER: fried shrimp, salmon hand rolls, shiitake soup with tofu & wakame seaweed.
• Full breakfast - salted salmon, tamagoyaki, natto, tsukudani, miso soup, pickled vegetables, rice.
• A week of bento boxes #12. TUESDAY: salmon and kai lan mixed rice, sour and sweet chicken, pickled radish. WEDNESDAY: rice ball, sausage, pickled cucumber. THURSDAY: tulip chicken, salad, rice seasoning. FRIDAY: fried cod ball, butter and soy sauce shiitake, tamagoyaki, stir fry shishito and sausage. SATURDAY: deep fried quail eggs and sausage, tsuna spinach salad, tamagoyaki.
• A week of bento boxes #16. TUESDAY: ham and egg, salted butter baby corn, mayo cheese mentaiko and zucchini. WEDNESDAY: shiitake hamburg steak, shishito peppers. THURSDAY: octopus karaage, macaroni salad. FRIDAY: mentaiko croquette, tamagoyaki. SATURDAY: yakitori( tsukune, chicken giblets, wrapped bacon in okura).
• A week of bento boxes #20. TUESDAY: Pork rolls, bunch broccoli. WEDNESDAY: Imitation crab omelette on rice, stir-fry pork and bell pepper. THURSDAY: Salmon and tempura bits rice ball, fried egg, spinach. FRIDAY: shiitake, imitation crab meat, greens, tilapia and mentaiko tempura. SATURDAY: Tofu and chicken hamburg steak, carrots shirishiri. Plus New Year's Day chirashi sushi and other dishes.
• The husband's first time making Japanese curry - Japanese subtitles only. Features creative use of the word densetsuno (legendary, as in "the legendary carrot passed down from my grandfather"), struggles with onion, and an improvised pot lid.

posted by automatic cabinet (8 comments total)

I LOVE this channel but I can’t subscribe to it because I will just binge watch and become increasingly hungry and annoyed that I don’t have all the ingredients to make exactly the thing in the videos right! Now! So I prefer to let the whims of the algorithm decide when it is time to watch another Imamu Room video. I get so many doable ideas and it’s all so approachable, but also really competent and pretty! I haven’t seen the curry making one, I had curry recently so I’ll watch that now and hopefully not be immediately overcome with the need to make it again.
posted by Mizu at 4:54 PM on February 9, 2021 [2 favorites]

This is delightful. Thanks for posting.
posted by wittgenstein at 6:03 PM on February 9, 2021

Oh, guess I need an electric takoyaki maker now. Thanks, automatic cabinet!
posted by mollweide at 6:14 PM on February 9, 2021 [2 favorites]

Such a great family!
posted by SPrintF at 7:14 PM on February 9, 2021

These are great thank you.
posted by Conrad-Casserole at 8:38 PM on February 9, 2021

I've been dating a woman from Osaka for about six months now. Her parents worked when she was growing up, so she cooked for the family. Learned from her grandmother. She cooks in that old school Japanese style. My kitchen is now populated with little plastic baggies, bottles, and boxes filled with mysterious powders, liquids, and what have you. (Probably not so mysterious if you know Japanese, but I don't... yet.)

I've enjoyed pretty much all the foods prepared on that YouTube channel, and then some. I consider myself extremely lucky.
posted by mikeand1 at 7:52 AM on February 10, 2021 [1 favorite]

Strangely soothing - thanks for sharing!
posted by milnews.ca at 4:10 PM on February 10, 2021

That curry preparation is great! I would never have come up with that solution for a lid, but that's an additional tool in my pocket if need be. :)

What a great channel. Clearly I need to do more with the rice before serving!
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 6:40 PM on February 10, 2021