Product Description

Reading manga sure can make a person hungry! Food appears frequently in Japanese comics, but what exactly is it that the characters are eating? The Manga Cookbook is an illustrated, step-by-step guide to preparing simple Japanese dishes using ingredients found in every Western kitchen. Learn to identify and make the same things you see in all your favorite manga: authentic onigiri (rice balls), yakitori (skewered chicken), oshinko (pickled vegetables), udon (Japanese noodles), okonomiyaki (Japanese-style pizza), and many others! All recipes were tested extensively by a team of culinary experts, including certified nutritionist Yoko Ishihara, to ensure they are kidfriendly and safe to make with little or no adult supervision necessary. Comes packaged in a deluxe gift set, complete with a Japanese-style "bento" lunch box and chopsticks emblazoned with the official Manga University logo!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8288368 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

Customer Reviews

Manga=Magic. TOTALLY worth it.
Got my order at last after 6 months, WELL worth the $999 I had to spend. The book itself is not so much a cookbook as more like a grimoire, in that you actually READ the recipe from the book, and it will appear in the bento box automatically! I've been reading myself meals for several weeks now, so I hope there isn't a limit to the amount of food-summonings or something, though I'm sure there isn't. Even so, I would highly recommend getting one of these, especially if you don't know how to cook. The pictures are very nice as well.

OH. And whatever you do, don't OVERread the book. I made that mistake the first time when I opened it, and there was a rather nasty explosion of food. So...DON'T read the book end to end when you first get it, tempting as it may be. I was cleaning up snacks for HOURS off the walls and ceiling.

Good read, good food, overall, good buy!

is that a typo?
$999.99 for a bento box,a set of chopsticks a bag, and a book (that is only $18.50, btw).
This is either just advertisment, a joke, or its crafted out of pure gold.

Need to complain somewhere
I pre-order this item in August and the site said it would delivery in mid-Sept. Now it's early October and I get an e-mail from Amazon that it's out-of-stock! Next time, I will remember to keep my pre-orders a secret.