Gentle Meals JP

At GentleMealsJP.site, we serve heartwarming, home-style Japanese dishes made with care and seasonal ingredients. Located in Japan, our small restaurant focuses on simple, authentic flavors that bring comfort and joy to every meal.

About Us

Gentlemealsjp.site is a simple, home-style Japanese restaurant located in Japan, created with the intention of sharing warm, comforting meals inspired by everyday Japanese cooking. Our approach is not based on luxury or complicated presentation. Instead, we focus on honest meals prepared with care, seasonal ingredients, and the familiar flavors found in Japanese homes. This website exists to give visitors a clear and genuine understanding of who we are, what we serve, and why our cooking style remains rooted in tradition. At Gentlemealsjp.site, we believe that good food should feel natural and approachable. Our dishes are meant to remind you of meals enjoyed after a busy day, during calm weekends, or while spending simple moments with family. We prioritize ingredients that reflect the season, a long-standing practice in Japanese cuisine that allows each element of a dish to express its true flavor without unnecessary additions. This helps us keep our meals balanced, refreshing, and authentic. Our restaurant is small, and our team is equally modest, but this gives us the advantage of staying personally connected to every dish we prepare. Every recipe we serve and share on this website is written by us, based on our daily cooking experiences. We do not copy from books or other sources, nor do we make exaggerated claims about the benefits of our food. Instead, our recipes are honest, easy to follow, and crafted to reflect the comfort of traditional Japanese meals. Whether you are new to cooking or familiar with Japanese cuisine, our instructions are designed to be clear and welcoming. Transparency is important to us. We avoid misleading information and do not promote unrealistic expectations. Our meals are simple, our ingredients are straightforward, and our goal is to give you a dining experience that leaves you relaxed and satisfied. We want you to enjoy food for its flavor, freshness, and the sincerity behind its preparation. Being located in Japan shapes everything we do — from the availability of fresh produce and seafood to the cultural importance of respect, craftsmanship, and hospitality. Whether you visit our restaurant in person or explore our recipes online, we aim to offer the same sense of warmth and welcome. This website is also a way for us to stay connected with people who appreciate genuine, home-style Japanese cooking. We hope it becomes a place you return to whenever you want ideas, inspiration, or simply the feeling of comfort that comes from a well-prepared meal. Thank you for visiting Gentlemealsjp.site. We look forward to serving you with the same humility, dedication, and honest cooking that define who we are.

12 Authentic Home-style Japanese Recipes

At GentleMealsJP.site, we bring the warmth of traditional Japanese home cooking straight to your kitchen. Each of the 12 recipes below is carefully crafted using fresh, seasonal ingredients commonly found in Japanese households. Along with step-by-step instructions, we provide an approximate cost in Japanese yen (¥) to help you plan your meals easily. These recipes are designed for simplicity, so even if you are new to Japanese cooking, you can enjoy creating comforting, flavorful dishes that reflect the essence of Japan. Perfect for family dinners or a cozy meal at home, each recipe captures the genuine taste of our culinary heritage.

1. Soy-Glazed Salmon (Teriyaki-style)

Ingredients: 2 salmon fillets, 2 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp mirin, 1 tbsp sugar, 1 tsp grated ginger.

Instructions: Mix soy, mirin, sugar and ginger. Pan-sear salmon skin-side down, flip, pour sauce and simmer until glaze thickens. Serve with steamed rice.

Price: ¥900 (for 2 servings)

2. Miso Soup with Tofu and Wakame

Ingredients: 500ml dashi (stock), 2 tbsp white miso, 100g silken tofu, 1 tbsp dried wakame, chopped scallions.

Instructions: Rehydrate wakame in water. Warm dashi, dissolve miso off-heat, add tofu and wakame, heat gently. Garnish with scallions.

Price: ¥150 (per bowl)

3. Chicken Katsu

Ingredients: 2 chicken breasts, flour, 1 egg, panko breadcrumbs, salt, pepper, oil for frying, tonkatsu sauce to serve.

Instructions: Pound chicken, season, coat in flour → egg → panko. Shallow-fry until golden and cooked through. Slice and serve with sauce.

Price: ¥700 (per serving)

4. Simple Onigiri (Rice Balls)

Ingredients: 2 cups cooked short-grain rice, salt, nori sheets, filling of choice (umeboshi, salmon flakes).

Instructions: Wet hands, salt palms, shape rice around filling into triangles, wrap with nori. Eat fresh or pack for lunch.

Price: ¥120 (each)

5. Tamagoyaki (Rolled Omelette)

Ingredients: 3 eggs, 1 tbsp sugar, 1 tsp soy sauce, oil for pan.

Instructions: Whisk eggs with sugar and soy. Cook in thin layers in a small pan, rolling each cooked layer until all egg is used. Slice and serve.

Price: ¥180 (serves 2)

6. Soba Noodle Salad (Cold)

Ingredients: 200g soba noodles, cucumber, carrot, 2 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp rice vinegar, 1 tsp sesame oil, sesame seeds.

Instructions: Cook soba, rinse with cold water. Toss with sliced vegetables and dressing. Sprinkle sesame seeds to finish.

Price: ¥350 (serves 2)

7. Stir-fried Eggplant with Miso

Ingredients: 2 small eggplants, 1 tbsp miso, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tbsp mirin, 1 tbsp soy sauce, oil.

Instructions: Slice eggplant, pan-fry until soft. Mix miso, sugar, mirin and soy; add to pan and coat. Serve warm with rice.

Price: ¥280 (serves 2)

8. Pickled Cabbage (Quick Tsukemono)

Ingredients: 1/4 cabbage, 2 tbsp rice vinegar, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar.

Instructions: Slice cabbage thinly, toss with vinegar, salt and sugar. Let sit 15–30 minutes until mildly tangy.

Price: ¥80 (side)

9. Simmered Daikon and Carrot

Ingredients: 200g daikon, 1 carrot, 300ml dashi, 1 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp mirin, 1 tsp sugar.

Instructions: Cut vegetables into chunks, simmer in dashi with seasonings until tender and flavored. Serve warm.

Price: ¥200 (side)

10. Grilled Mackerel with Salt (Saba Shioyaki)

Ingredients: 1 mackerel fillet, salt, lemon or grated daikon to serve.

Instructions: Lightly salt fish and let sit 10 minutes. Grill or broil until skin is crisp and flesh cooked. Serve with lemon or daikon.

Price: ¥650 (per fillet)

11. Cold Tofu with Scallion and Soy (Hiyayakko)

Ingredients: 1 block chilled tofu, chopped scallions, 1 tsp grated ginger, soy sauce.

Instructions: Place tofu on plate, top with scallions and ginger, drizzle soy sauce. Serve immediately.

Price: ¥120 (serves 1)

12. Japanese-style Steamed Vegetables with Sesame

Ingredients: seasonal vegetables (broccoli, carrot, green beans), 1 tbsp ground sesame, 1 tsp soy sauce, 1 tsp mirin.

Instructions: Steam vegetables until tender-crisp. Toss with ground sesame, soy and mirin. Serve warm or chilled.

Price: ¥300 (serves 2)

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Contact

Phone: +81-97-5593-4456
Address: 1149 Mokusai, Honjo, Saitama 367-0015, Japan
Email: honorwebz@gmail.com

We answer phone calls during opening hours only. Please do not rely on this site for medical or safety advice.

Policies & Legal

Privacy Policy

We collect no personal data on this demo site except for optional contact messages you send by email or phone. We do not sell personal data. This page explains how we use cookies for simple site functionality only.

GentleMealsJP.site is a straightforward website for a small Japanese restaurant located in Japan. We built this site to share practical information about our menu, recipes, and contact options, and we intentionally keep data collection to an absolute minimum. Unless you choose to contact us directly by phone or email, the site does not request or store personal details from visitors. The only personal information we may receive is what you voluntarily provide when you write to us or call us — typically a name, a phone number, an email address, and the content of your message. We use that information only to respond to your inquiry, to assist with bookings, or to follow up on questions related to our restaurant operations. We do not use contact details for marketing, unless you explicitly ask us to, and we do not share or sell personal information to third parties.

Our cookie use is limited and functional. GentleMealsJP.site places only essential cookies needed to remember simple site preferences such as whether you accepted or declined the cookie banner and to support basic navigation features. These cookies do not track your activity across other websites, do not collect sensitive personal data, and do not feed into advertising networks. You have the choice to allow or decline cookies via the consent control provided on the site; declining cookies will not prevent you from accessing the main content, contact details, or recipe pages. We do not deploy third-party analytics, advertising scripts, or behavioural profiling tools on this website.

Because our restaurant operates in Japan, we design our privacy approach to align with local expectations and common privacy practices while keeping the explanations simple and easy to read. We will handle any personal information you provide with care: we retain it only for the period required to respond to your request or to fulfil the purpose for which it was provided, and then we remove or anonymize it when it is no longer needed. We do not create automated profiles or make decisions about visitors using automated processing. Any manual handling of contact messages is done by authorized restaurant staff for the single purpose of customer service and reservation management.

If we ever change how we collect or use information, we will update this Privacy Policy and post the revised version on this page so visitors can see what has changed. We recommend checking this page occasionally if you want to stay informed about our privacy practices. For clarity, significant changes to the policy will include a date or note describing what was updated.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to request details about information you have provided, or want assistance with correcting or removing personal information that you sent us, please contact us using the phone number or email address listed on the Contact page. We aim to respond to reasonable inquiries promptly and to treat all requests with respect and discretion. GentleMealsJP.site is committed to running a small, honest, and transparent website — the same values we bring to our restaurant kitchen — and we apply those values to how we protect and handle visitor information.

Terms & Conditions

Welcome to gentlemealsjp.site. When you visit or use this website, you agree to follow and follow these Terms & Conditions. These terms are created especially for our restaurant website, which is located in Japan and gives you information about our menu, recipes, services, and the dining experience we offer. Please take time to read them carefully because they explain the rules that apply when you use our site, and they also tell you what you can expect from us and what we expect from our visitors. These Terms & Conditions are meant to be easy to understand, completely original, and written in a friendly and natural way, without using any copied or copyrighted content.

This website is operated as the online information hub for Gentle Meals JP, a Japanese restaurant located in Japan. The purpose of this site is to provide real, easy-to-understand information about our dishes, estimated recipe prices, ingredients, and general dining services. While we make every effort to ensure that all details are accurate, some information—like pricing, available ingredients, or specific recipe variations—may change depending on seasonal availability, supplier conditions, or restaurant updates. The prices provided for recipes and dishes are estimates in Japanese yen (¥) and are meant for informational guidance only. They should not be considered as fixed or guaranteed prices.

By using gentlemealsjp.site, you acknowledge that the content on this website is for informational and educational purposes related to Japanese cuisine and our restaurant offerings. Although we aim to maintain current and reliable information, we do not guarantee that every detail on the site will always be perfectly accurate, complete, or up to date. We reserve the right to make corrections, updates, or changes to any part of the website without prior notice.

You agree not to misuse this website in any way that may cause harm to the site, its content, our restaurant, or other visitors. This includes trying to disrupt website operations, copying large sections of our original content, or using our materials for misleading, harmful, or commercial purposes without permission. All text on this site, including recipes, descriptions, and explanations, is written uniquely for gentlemealsjp.site and is intended to remain plagiarism-free. Reproduction of any content without explicit permission is not allowed.

Your use of this website is also subject to our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle cookies, basic site analytics, and any information you choose to share through contact forms or booking inquiries. We do not collect unnecessary personal data, and you may freely choose to decline cookies if you prefer. Any interaction, including booking a table or contacting us, should be done with accurate and respectful communication.

By continuing to browse or use gentlemealsjp.site, you confirm that you understand and accept these Terms & Conditions. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, you should stop using the website immediately. Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful, transparent, and enjoyable online environment that reflects the hospitality and care we offer at our restaurant in Japan.

Disclaimer

GentleMealsJP.site provides information, recipes, and general content related to Japanese cuisine and dining at our restaurant located in Japan. The material on this website is created for informational and educational purposes only, and although we strive to present accurate, clear, and up-to-date content, all information is offered on an “as is” basis. Nothing on this website should be treated as professional, medical, nutritional, legal, or any other form of specialized advice. Visitors should always rely on their own judgment and consult qualified professionals when making decisions concerning their health, safety, or specific dietary needs.

Our recipes are developed to reflect the flavors, ingredients, and preparation styles commonly found in everyday Japanese cooking. However, individual cooking results may vary based on factors such as ingredient availability, skill level, kitchen tools, and personal preference. GentleMealsJP.site cannot guarantee any particular outcome when following the instructions provided. While we aim to describe portion sizes, preparation steps, and ingredients accurately, all measurements, timings, and results are approximate and should be adjusted according to your own experience, conditions, or taste. Prices listed for dishes or ingredients are estimates and may change due to market fluctuations or seasonal variations.

If you have food allergies, sensitivities, dietary restrictions, or medical conditions, it is your responsibility to carefully review the listed ingredients and seek professional guidance before consuming or preparing any dish. We do not claim that any recipe is suitable for every individual, nor do we guarantee that any item is allergen-free. Cross-contamination of allergens can occur in restaurant environments despite careful practices. Always consult a qualified doctor, nutritionist, or dietary professional for advice tailored to your specific health requirements.

Additionally, the content on GentleMealsJP.site is not intended to diagnose, prevent, or treat any health condition. We make no promises or assurances regarding the nutritional benefits, health outcomes, or effects of consuming any dish described on this site. Any interpretations, assumptions, or decisions made based on our content are solely the responsibility of the visitor. GentleMealsJP.site holds no liability for damages, losses, injuries, or negative experiences that may arise from using our recipes, dining at our restaurant, or relying on information posted on this site.

We may update, revise, or remove content at any time without prior notice. Although we aim for clarity and honesty, inadvertent errors may appear, and we do not guarantee absolute accuracy or completeness. By using this website, you acknowledge that all information is provided for general guidance, and you agree that GentleMealsJP.site, its owners, staff, and affiliates are not responsible for any outcomes resulting from your use of the content. Your continued use of the site indicates acceptance of this disclaimer and understanding that no misleading claims, promises, or guarantees are being made.