Japanese dinner, an attempt

I am now trying to cook my own food at home instead of eating out. Should save me some money and I do have a decently equiped kitchen at my disposal now.

Japanese meals usually don`t consist of one big plate with a dish, but several small bowls and plates containing "tapas" type of food, a little to pick from everything. Should be healthy and balanced because you get to eat a lot of different ingredients and do not eat too much of anything. I am trying to do some stuff that I have seen at restaurants or canteens. The dinner on the picture is tofu with soy, grated carrot and cucumber, then a bowl with gyoza, dumplings with meat and a mixed salad and of course green tea. Doesn`t it look nice?

Of course this is pretty simple. The salad was pre-washed and cut, so just had to do the dressing, grated some carrot and cucumber on top of the tofu and the gyoza were - I admit - deep frozen and just put in the microwave. Well, I`m beginning and want to move on. I`d like to try to do a ramen and also roll some sushi. I`ve already made Okonomiyaki back home in Switzerland and it turned out really good. Watch out for more from the cooking studio...