Japanese food?

Question

Any recommendations for someone who's never tried Japanese food before?

Answer 1

For a first timer - California Roll, Miso Soup. Start there - those other responses could ruin it for you.

Answer 2

Ahhh sure! Domburi
Gomaae
Gyoza
Korokke
Mushrooms
Nikujaga Okonomiyaki
Ramen
Rice
Sashimi
Seaweed
Soba Soya Bean
Sushi
Tempura
Udon
Yakitori
Wasabi

Answer 3

Not all Japanese food is scary. I'd recommend staying away from large amounts of raw fish for your first experience. Even when it comes to sushi, there are many choices that are either cooked fish, or vegetarian. Some things to try:
* California Roll (crab salad and avocado)
* Oshinko Maki (Japanese Radish)
* Kappa Maki (Cucumber)

In addition, any noodle dishes you might get should be relatively safe. If in doubt, ask your server, or whoever you're dining with (unless your friends are pratical jokers).

I don't recommend getting either Squid or Octopus for your first outing. When they're good, they can be really good. When they're bad, they can be very hard to get down.

Answer 4

Despite all the glamor and glory surrounding it sushi is not the only Japanese food out there. See if you can find someplace that does shabu shabu or teppanyaki style cooking. Teppenyaki is like the Benihana of Tokyo style of cooking where your food is cut and grilled right at your table. Shabu shabu is very similar to an Asian variant of fondue cooking. Ramen is also another up and coming contender in the Japanese food arena. As I say time and time again when relating to food.....Soo many choices soo little time/money :-)

Answer 5

Congratulations on trying something new! As far as sushi goes, I'd start with California roll. It has crab, avocado, cucumber and fish eggs wrapped in seaweed and rice. It's the most common roll and no raw fish. My favorite is a crunchy roll. It has cooked tempera batter, crab and depending on where you get it some type of vege like asparagus wrapped in seaweed and rice. It is common to dip sushi in soy sauce mixed with wasabi (the green paste). Oh yea, the pink or white thin stuff next to the green paste is not ham or turkey. It's pickled ginger (very hot).

If you want a less adventurous experience just stick to chicken or beef teriyaki (chicken or beef grilled with a sweet brown sauce on top), or shrimp tempera (shrimp fried in a light batter and comes with a delectable dipping broth).

Enjoy!

Answer 6

For a first time, if you are going to start with sashimi (raw fish), then I recommend salmon, tuna, and yellowtail with some spicy paste. If you are able to eat this, then you should be able to eat other kinds of sashimi as well. However, I recommend you not eating sea urchin, which looks like a yellow disfigured strip that looks kind of dotty-ish, because it is often left alone for the more experienced sashimi eaters.

However, if you want sushi (rolls) for a first time, I prefer the california roll, and spicy tuna rolls. The California rolls is a roll with a center of crab (usually artificial), avocados, and cucumbers wrapped in a single sheet of non-salted dried seaweed, which is then layered with rice. Sometimes, there will be a sprinkle of crab roe on the California rolls. Next, the spicy tuna roll is a roll with a center of tuna covered in that spicy paste I was talking about earlier covered in a layer of rice, which is then layered a gain with a single sheet of non-salted seaweed.

If you would like to have a taste of something else other that sashimi or sushi, then I recommend to you is tempura, which is an assortment of fried vegetables and usually shrimp.

Then, there is Udon, with is a soup made of soy sauce, with thick wheat noodles and assortment of vegetables and kamaboko, which are fish cakes.

Also, there is shabu shabu, which is a hot dish. What you do is take a small skinny, piece of meat ( does not have to be beef, can be lobster, crab, chicken, pork, etc.) and dip it into a pot of boiling water, which is often filled with vegtables. You keep it in the water until the meat has fully cooked. then you take out the piece of meat and eat it. You are given a large plate of raw piece, so don't worry if you thought it was only one piece of meat. LOL. By the end, the water should have turned into a broth and should have become tasty enough to drink.

Including to the list above, tonkatsu is a very popular dish here in the US and Japan. It is a bread, deep-fried pork cutlet, which is one to two inches thick and is usually served with shredded lettuce. It is also served with a Japanese horseradish sauce, Japanese mustard, and/or soy sauce on the side of the tonkatsu itself or spread on top of the tonkatsu. Sometimes curry is also used as a sauce for tonkatsu. Also, tonkatsu is a very popular sandwich topping in Japan for lunches and bento.

Second to last, you can always have a taste at ramen noodles. Portable Japanese ramen noodles (not the American noodles that everyone can find at the market!!!) can be hard to find, and authentic Japanese noodles are even harder to find. Before I get into taste, let me first talk about Korean ramen noodles. Korean ramen noodles are usually hot and spicy. they usually come with one kind of noodles: white wheat noodles. However, authentic Japanese ramens have a much bigger range of flavor. Japanese ramen noodles are separated into four separate familes, based on the soup: shio (salt), tonkotsu (pork bone), shoyu (soy sauce), and miso. Shio ramen soup is clear, almost transparent. It is probably the oldest of the four and, like the Chinese maotang (毛湯), is a simple chicken broth. Tonkotsu ramen soup is usually white. It is similar to the Chinese baitang (白湯) and is a thick broth made with crushed pork bones that have been boiled for hours. Shoyu ramen soup is made by adding a soy-based sauce to a stock usually made from chicken and various vegetables. Miso ramen soup is a relative newcomer, having reached national prominence around 1965. This uniquely Japanese ramen, which was developed in Hokkaidō, features a broth that combines chicken stock with a fermented soybean paste. It is often topped with sweetcorn and butter. These four groups of ramen are further split into smaller groups, which depend on where the ramen is from and how it is made.

Finally, there is onigiri. If you watch a lot of anime, then you would definitely see a triangualr rice ball with a patch of dried seaweed on it, usually stuffed with a meat or vegetable. That is onigiri. Onigiri is often stuffed with fish, seafood, pickles, natto (fermented soybeans), furikake (any dry condiment that is meant to be sprinkled ON TOP of rice), and Spam.

To eat some of these, like the ramen and the onigiri, you would have to go to an authentic Japanese restaurant. However, if there is no authentic Japanese restaurant near you, then I would consider eating at a local Japanese restaurant, where you can find many of the things listed here, but not all (but if you are lucky, you might be able to find them all!!!)

Thank you for reading what I have typed (while not doing my homework. LOL.)

SURVIVALsp1

Answer 7

Sushi.

Answer 8

Katsudon!

Answer 9

start off with ones with out raw fish in it then slowly get into raw fish

Answer 10

i wouldn't recommend sushi for your first time. but do try tempura, katsu chicken or pork, and if you like noodles, yakisoba.