Japan Food Culture

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Introducing popular Japanese dishes such as "YAKI-TORI"(means 'grilled chicken') and "SUSHI", as well as "IZAKAYA" menus.

Food samples are the plastic models of food that you see in glass cases outside restaurants.

Tsukemono is a kind of food, mostly vegetables, that has been pickled in salt, rice bran, miso, or something else.

Rice has been an important part of the lives of Japanese people since ancient times.

Chirashi-zushi is a type of sushi made by combining various ingredients with vinegared rice.

Umeboshi are a type of pickle made from ume (plums) fruits that are dried in the sun after being salted and soaked in ume vinegar.

Menchi katsu is a popular side dish on par with croquette.

Chawanmushi is a dish made by mixing various ingredients along with a beaten egg and dashi stock in a small bowl.

Sweet foods, such as Japanese and Western confectionaries, are known as kanmi (sweets).

The fundamental components of Japanese meals are rice, soup, and side dishes, with the soup providing both water and salt.

Among the many types of egg cuisines, tamagoyaki is said to be one of Japan's unique household dishes. It is also known as atsuyaki tamago.

As well as okonomiyaki and takoyaki, there is another type of well-known "flour-based food" called monjayaki.

In addition to sashimi and sushi, there are various ways of eating and preparing fish, such as grilling, boiling, salting, fermenting, drying, smoking, and pulping into a paste.

Made from soybeans, tofu is a type of healthy food that has been eaten as shojin ryori (Buddhist vegetarian cuisine) for a great many years. Even now it is a very common food in Japan.

In Japan, "croquette" refers to a food that is made by mixing boiled and crushed potatoes with minced meat, covering it in bread crumbs, and frying it until the outside is crispy.

Natto is a traditional Japanese food made from fermented soybeans.

In the 1960s, chicken became a common food in Japan.

Omurice is one of the most well-known "Western foods" born in Japan between the Meiji and Taisho periods.

It is said that donburimono—rice served in a dish with its side dish placed on top—was created in the Edo period and originated with unadon, rice topped with eel.