To purchase a black & white copy of a manual for $5.00 (including shipping & handling), please contact our Customer Service Department by e-mail, or by calling 800-733-6270, M-F, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PST. Not all models may be available. To view and print this document, you will need Adobe® Acrobat® Reader®.How to make Japanese rice For the first in our Japanese recipe series: how to get rice right Thursday 25 August 2016 10:58 BST A closer look at Luca, the new restaurant from The Clove Club team Revealed: How 'lightning' Bramall escaped redundancy to join Arsenal Agents move to stamp out transfer opportunists as Fifa turns its back Armed men steal watches worth £110,000 in raid on luxury boutique Rice is a staple of Japanese cooking. But to get it right - tender without being sticky - calls for a particular cooking method. Follow the recipe below to make the ultimate Japanese rice. Ingredients (makes 660g cooked rice) 300g Japanese short grain rice

Place rice in a bowl, add water and gently wash the rice by using a swirling motion. Discard water and repeat this process several times until the water is clear.ordina sushi online milano Soak rice in clean water for 30 minutes. sushi making kit cheapThen discard water completely using a sieve.buying fish for homemade sushi Place rice in a heavy-bottom lidded pot and add 360ml of water. best sushi rice australiaBring rice to the boil over medium heat. Once boiled, reduce heat to low and simmer for approximately 12 minutes. Keep the lid on until the rice is cooked. Turn off heat and let the cooked rice stand for 10 minutes.

Using a wooden paddle, fluff the rice to let excess moisture to evaporate.  Follow us on Twitter @eslifeandstyleAn unassuming object has appeared on the shopping list of Chinese nouveau riches: Japanese toilet seats.According to People’s Daily, Chinese shoppers swarmed into stores in Japan during the Chinese New Year holidays and bought up all electronic toilet seats in stock.But while those who trade in luxury bathroom gadgets were celebrating in Japan, the demand for lavatories with 'built-in cheek warmers' has sparked condemnation in China - with even the prime minister entering the debate. Ambitious shoppers: Chinese tourists have been reported to buy up all toilet seats in Japan during the Chinese New Year holidays Bottomless suitcases: Other hot items on their shopping list include rice and rice cookersThe furore was sparked when it was discovered that these toilet seats were made in China - but only available to Chinese people who are prepared to fly abroad. 

It’s been joked online that these seats went on a ‘self-guided tour to Japan just like their new owners’.Some Chinese tourists to Japan bought as many as five toilet seats without checking the price beforehand, wrote Wu Xiaobo, a renowned Chinese columnist, in one article.  'Toilet seat' has since become an internet buzzword in China. The other popular items Chinese shoppers buy in Japan are rice cookers and rice (imagine the weight of the luggage).'As long as Chinese tour groups are here, toilet seats will go out of stock,' said a shopkeeper in Japan in Mr Wu’s article.Advanced toilet seats from brands such as Panasonic are regarded as the representation of Japanese technology in China and are a status symbol to own. Toilet seats are considered to be the typical symbol of advanced Japanese technology in China Functions: From spray washing to blow drying to massaging, a Japanese toilet seats can do it allA separate article lists 14 different functions a typical Japanese toilet seat has, which includes spray washing, blow drying, massaging and auto-deodorisation.

These seats are reported to be compatible with all toilets.A sales representative from Panasonic told People’s Daily that such toilet seats are common in Japan and appear in public toilets too.He said Chinese buyers were not familiar with the product in the past few years, but once they found out the benefits and found the products affordable, they came to buy up all. Made in China: Some of the toilet seats in Japan are produced by Chinese factories which prompts public outcry over the motivation of purchasing it overseasEagle-eyed Chinese netizens have also found out that the packaging of some of the toilet seats were full of Chinese characters. They later found out that many seats were originally made in China in cities such as Hangzhou.This has prompted public outcry over the reason why they travelled overseas to buy homemade products.An experts on home electronics told People’s Daily that the only solution to restore Chinese shoppers’ confidence in buying in China is to eradicate low-quality made-in-China products once for all.

Common scene: High-tech toilet seats can be found in many places in Japan, including public toiletsThe buzzword also made its way to the ongoing Lianghui, the National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.In responding to the news, China’s premier Li Keqiang said a more tolerant attitude and rights of choice should be given to consumers and that Chinese companies should strive to produce similar products.'At least, (this) can save the flight fare for the consumers,' said Mr Li. Create your own traditional bento box or try homemade sushi with wasabi and Japanese rice.A few years ago, my wife and I spent a couple of months in Japan. She taught English and I cooked, initially in a restaurant and later in private houses. We lived in a tiny flat with two little electric burners, a miniature fridge and a toaster. There was no space for a chair, so we had to sit on the bed to eat dinner. I loved our time there, and it gave me the extraordinary opportunity to learn Japanese cooking.

I’d spend my days visiting incredible markets and food halls where I sampled pretty much everything, from live fish to cod sperm and chicken sashimi. I learnt the names of the different wild greens that arrived in spring and, experimenting on my tiny stove, how to cook the first shoots of fresh bamboo, as exciting an arrival as the first asparagus back home. I became familiar with different grades of shoyu (soy), miso and a handy condiment, mirin, a sweetish rice wine the Japanese use to pep up their dishes (you can buy it in larger supermarkets). We have some pretty good Japanese restaurants in Britain now, although it’d be easy to infer from these that Japanese people live on sushi and little else. In fact, sushi is a Tokyo speciality, not widely eaten elsewhere. In a Japanese home, simple meals are based around a bowl of rice, a donburi. This is often shortened to “don”, as in tendon, katsudon, oyakodon etc. Rice is greatly esteemed in Japan, as in most East Asian cultures: cooked rice is even given the prefix “go” which denotes the utmost respect.

It is always cooked with great care, following a similar method to my recipe here (which accompanies all this week’s dishes). Nowadays, though I find myself without access to wild Japanese mountain greens or my own personal bamboo patch, I often base my simple home suppers around a bowl of rice, and these recipes are my favourites. Feel free to experiment by adding asparagus to the tempura, or using a different meat in the chicken and egg donburi. A bowl of rice is usually accompanied by miso soup, another Japanese favourite. To cook it, start by making dashi (stock), using seaweed and dried bonito flakes, before mixing in some miso paste and adding a little tofu, some spring onions, mushroom or even a few clams. It’s a bit tricky to find bonito flakes or the right kind of dried seaweed (nori), but some of the instant miso soups on the market taste pretty good. Wasabi, the fiery Japanese horseradish paste, is pretty widely available now, too.Experiment until you find products you are happy with.