Is there any vegetarian food in japanese cousine? what should I try??

Answer 1

♡Well, I've lived in Japan for almost 9 years now and I would suggest you try the noodle dishes, soba
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/ZaruSoba.jpg
or udon (buckwheat noodles or Japanese wheat noodles)
http://www.gentei.org/~yas/udon/image/jumbp_udon.jpg
that don't use fish extract (dashi) in the dipping sauce or the soup accompanying the noodles. You could try udon dishes from plain Kishimen (wide and flat-shaped udon often served in miso broth and mainly eaten in central Japan)*This can be eaten with ALL veggie tenpura.
http://rugby-fever.cocolog-nifty.com/japan/images/kishimen.jpg
to hot Kama-age udon (cooked noodles served warm in hot water and eaten with a cold sauce like sesame sauce 'goma'- Delicious!)
http://www13.ocn.ne.jp/~spandy/kama_age.jpg
to Nabeyaki udon (a hotpot-style dish cooked with other ingredients as veggies).
http://dinner.nekosuke.com/images/nabeyaki_udon/nabeyaki_udon09.jpg
Instead of regular 'dashi' you could eat foods prepared with 'Shojin Dashi', it uses 'kombu' (kelp), shiitake mushrooms and water. (This is the easy way I make it. No fish stock here and delicious.)
Noodles can also be eaten stir fried with your choice of veggies. Just add a little soy sauce and Shichimi seasoning if desired. Excellent! Veggie yakisoba:
http://www.nwtec.com/newsfiles/Yakisoba2A.jpg
Veggie yakiudon:
http://mieman.tsukaeru.jp/syef/gazo/yakiudon.jpg
You can eat white rice or brown rice, whichever you prefer. You can have yaki onigiri, grilled rice balls that have been brushed with soy sauce and lightly grilled with Japanese pickles (my lunch many times!).
http://www.hasegawakankou.co.jp/img/sapporroko/yakionigiri.jpg
You can have 'tempura' as long as it's all veggie types. If in doubt about the sauce, it can also be eaten with different flavored 'salts' such as matcha salt... GOOD!
http://www.wankwai.de/images/rezept/rdm2005--10b.jpg
Hope this helps!♡

Answer 2

I think the only TRULY vegetarian foods are the rice, nattou (mouldy old soybeans!) or Tofu. You can always have tenpura vegetables, but ask if there's dashi in the batter! Miso soup normally has dashi added - that's like a stock made of fish - but if you make it yourself it's easy to avoid, just buy a miso paste that does NOT have dashi already in it, and don't add any yourself! That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but there are probably more..!

Obviously most salads are okay, and there's a nice way of serving cabbage - shredded and with mayonaise, if you can eat egg products...!

You won't find many California rolls here in Japan though, so unless you're in another country forget it! They're an American variation on a perfectly good Japanese theme..!

Other than that, I'm afraid MOST (although not ALL) Japanese foods have some sort of dashi added to them. It's part of what makes it Japanese food... so if you're not TOO fussy, anything that doesn't actually have bits of meat or fish will be okay, if you ARE fussy, you'll have to be more careful. Even my favourite sushi - inari-zushi - although it has no fish or meat there's dashi used in the cooking process.

Answer 3

I traveled to Japan with a vegetarian friend a few months ago, and he managed to find things to eat, even at the Kaiten-Zushi (conveyor-belt sushi) restaurant. The biggest problem is that a lot of things that look veggie actually contain fish broth. If a Japanese person is serving, be sure to ask if there is any "dashi" in the dish.

If you go to Japan, your best bet is "kaiseki ryori". It's completely vegetarian, aesthetically amazing, nutritionally energizing Zen temple food. It's also pricey. And you won't find it at your local sushi place in the US.

Answer 4

You can try a seaweed salad which usually is marinated in sesame seeds and oil. The California roll can be made without fish. A plum roll has a sweet/tart plum paste or something like that, rice and seaweed. But to really enjoy Japanese food, you have to embrace your position at the top of the food chain and go for the raw fish. Sayoonara!

Answer 5

Appetizers
Edamame- steamed soybeans
Miso soup- soybean base, usually served with tofu, green onion and seaweed
Age tofu- fried cubes of tofu served with tempura sauce
Veggie tempura- batter fried veggies served with tempura sauce
Seaweed salad
Inari- sweet tofu stuffed with sushi rice

Sushi
Veggie roll- cucumber, carrot, asparagus and avocado
Tempura veggie roll- batter fried sweet potato and acorn squash
Cucumber roll
Fresh salad roll- cucumber, avocado, asparagus, sweet egg and tempura chips wrapped in rice paper
Avocado roll

Dinners
Veggie stir fry
Udon- veggie soup- be careful... some places put crab in it ...ask your server
Zaru soba- cold buckwheat noodles served with a sauce

The place I work at has a good selection of vegetarian food... most do because the Japanese and Korean eat a lot less meat than the average American.
I hope this helped!

Answer 6

I'm vegetarian, and when I go to Japan I plan on eating a lot of rice.

Answer 7

They make veggie rolls (like sushi, but with veggies instead of fish), provided you count seaweed as a veg and not as something that smells like the ocean.

Vegetable udon soup is also good.

Answer 8

They have california roll sushi which has no fish, just usually avocado's and ginger and cucumber. Tempura vegetables (yum) and Edamame ( soy beans). They have a lot to choose from if you go to the right place!

Answer 9

nicely, you could purely get some actual miso and make your own soup. Mushroom flavour Koka noodles are ok for vegetarians, as are the on the spot cup noodles you get in Lidl's. distinct on the spot noodles are veggie-pleasant, genuinely. i have in no way had a difficulty with searching them.

Answer 10

Yes. There are a lot of meatless options when it comes to japanese food!

Miso Soup is one option

1 cup chopped onion, separated
1 cup chopped broccoli
1 cup long grain rice
4 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon sesame oil
5 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
6 cups water
2 tablespoon Frontier vegetable broth powder
1 tablespoon fresh ginger minced
2 teaspoon ground cumin
3 tablespoon soy sauce
salt/pepper
2 tablespoon miso
1/2 cup frozen peas

Miso Broth In a sauce pan, saute 1/2 cup chopped onion and 4 cloves minced garlic in 2 tbsp. vegetable oil. Add 4 cups water. Stir in vegetable broth powder. Add ginger, soy sauce, sesame oil,cilantro, cumin, salt, pepper (to taste.) Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer.

Rice In a large saute pan, saute the remaining garlic and onion in remaining vegetable oil. Cook until onion is translucent. Add broccolli and stir fry until bright green. Add rice and salt and pepper (to taste). Stir rice in pan until it becomes opaque (3 minutes). Add 2 cups of water and stir well. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer. Cover and cook until almost all water has been absorbed (15-20 min.). Add peas and cook until heated through and all water has been absorbed.

Remove one cup of broth from sauce pan and pour into a bowl. Stir in 2 tbsp. miso paste, then add back to broth in the sauce pan. Stir until well blended.

To serve--Divide rice into 2 large soup bowls. Pour miso broth over rice. Can be eaten as is or stirred together into a delicious rice soup. Very filling and warming on cold winter nights--especially when payday is a week away and you can't afford these flavors in a restaurant. This is a quick combination of favorite Japanese flavors. Feel free to add seasonings and vegetables of choice. I didn't have tofu when I made this, but it would be a most natural and welcome addition. Please try this recipe and let me know what things you added to personalize this simple soup.



Also.. there is vegeterian sushi!


1 cup rice (white)
1/4 cup rice vinegar (amount to your taste)
1/4 cup sugar (amount to your taste)
2 teaspoon salt (amount to your taste)
Nori (seaweed in dry, rectangular, paper thin form)
soy sauce (to taste)
Wasabi (powdered horseradish)
Vegetables (optional- see procedure)

Cook the rice. If you know how to cook rice, that's great. If not, the package usually will tell you. (Note- this recipe is based on 1 cup UNCOOKED rice, which will be considerably more when cooked)

Mix vinegar, vegan sugar and salt in separate bowl (a soup bowl will do). Mix into the cooked rice. Buy little rectangles of nori (seaweed) and wrap the rice with the nori. Dip in sauce made by mixing soy sauce and wasabi (to taste)

You can also wrap up vegetables with the rice. Avocado, cooked asparagus, cucumber, thin carrot slices, and ginger taste good with this.

These ingredients can all be found at an Asian food store.
Well Good Luck! Hope I helped!