Recipe: Staple dish while having a drink at an Izakaya, Cabbage mixed with salt and sesame oil also called "Shio-Kyabetsu". Best Salad Ever.

Izakayas are basically casual restaurants who concentrate on serving drinks and small Japanese tapas dishes such as edamame, fried chicken, salads, etc. Back when I lived in Japan, I went to an izakaya on a regular basis to enjoy the "All you can drink" menu as well as regular menus. There are fancy izakayas to regular type of izakayas. Izakayas made for specific target customers too; some izakayas focusing on seafood lovers, some on older business men. It's really fun to scavenge around for your favourite izakaya since there are so many; especially around popular stations. 

Back to this recipe of cabbage mixed with salt and sesame oil called "shio-kyabetsu" in Japanese. It's a very simple dish and very popular amongst izakaya lovers and yakiniku (Korean bbq) lovers. It's always served as an appetizer. It's just a perfect salad to accomodate other meaty dishes or alcoholic beverages. Please give it a try, it only takes a minute to make!

 What You Need:

• Several leaves of cabbage (chopped, I used around 5 leaves)
• 1/2 tsp sesame oil
• Salt and pepper (as much as you want)

Simply mix all the ingredients together. Yup, that's it.