I am really into Japanese food. I've grown up in America where I was taught not to play with my food. In Japan, you always play with your food. What kinds of Japanese food should I check out? I am in Japan now, and there are many things I've not tried! Your thoughts?
2007-12-05 01:33:30 · 20 answers · asked by Toilet Finger! 2 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Japan
I LOVE Japanese food and I lived in Tokyo also for 3 years.
You must try the following dishes which are not very known by many foreigners, and are delicious!
1) Shabu Shabu (thing sliced of kobe beef cooked in a hot pot in front you with hot water. After beef is cooked, you dip into two different sauces). This is absolutely my favorite dish ever!
2) Sukyaki: similar than shabu shabu, but all ingredientes are cooked together in a large pot with eggs.
3) Tempura: vegetables and shrimp tempura. You don't find many good tempura dishes outside Japan, so eat there!
4) Gioza places. Small shops only for giozas (small dumplings)
5) Yakitori: barbecue chicken. The best places to eat yakitoria are those small places set on the street. Around Ginza has a very good place near the Station. Ask around.
6) Japanese curry: very different than Indian curry and it is really good.
7) Although it is not Japanese, try Korean Barbecue. Japanese love it and there are many excellent korean bbq places in Japan. In USA it is very expensive, so eat there...
8) Japanese sweets are very good too and they are not very sweet and high in sugar
9) Go to ramen shops. Many Japanese eat ramen soups after a long night out. they are everywhere.
10) Eat a good oodon soup too. Specially in the winter. Choose with the one with shrimp and/or tempura on top. My favourite.
Japan has excellent culinary schools. Even if you are not eating Japanese food, any other cuisine in Japan is excellent. My favorite Italian, Tai and Chinese restaurants are located there. So try many food there...
Good luck. Ganbate-kudasai
2007-12-05 02:00:19 · answer #1 · answered by GiGi אהבה 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
If you like playing with food, then go to a conveyor belt sushi restaurant. That's fun. Or how about the gyoza museum world in Tokyo where you can sample all sorts of gyoza in an adventurous surrounding? Howabout tachigui soba? You can order a cheap bowl of delicious noodles and eat it while standing at a counter.
Best bet is to make Japanese friends. Take up offers to go out with people until you get into a crowd of foodies, then stick with them. You'll be eating noodles sliding down bamboo pipes, eating sashimi straight from the wiggling fish, slurping ramen at the best ramenya, making your own noodles, etc.
Have fun.
2007-12-05 21:15:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nabe is the best for this season.
A pot with many ingredients it's kinda stew.
It's a party menu so if you have some friends in Japan,you must try at least once!!
http://season.nifty.com/winter/nabe/list.html
http://image-search.yahoo.co.jp/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=top_v2&p=%E9%8D%8B
BTW the Japanese are usually taught not to play with their food by their parents.
2007-12-05 20:04:54 · answer #3 · answered by Kei5 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Shabu shabu, okonomiyaki, tempura....mmmmm!! the sweets and cakes are good too. There's so many different foods in Japan, the choices are amazing!
2007-12-05 23:41:01 · answer #4 · answered by Ash G 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's a restaurant in the Shinsaibashi area of Osaka where I had a delicious dish with noodles, sauce and fried squid on top. So yummy I had to go back for more before coming back home!
2007-12-05 14:31:02 · answer #5 · answered by Cieguilla 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Tempura and (i dont know the proper name) the shrimp-piece on rice sushi. Oh I just love shrimp thats biased. But I love those the most.
And mochi ice-cream!!
2007-12-05 17:08:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sayaka at the Salad Bar Hotel is dericious
2007-12-05 09:54:25 · answer #7 · answered by mor e 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Curry rice! It is cheap and very filling...available at specialty shops and in ALL big train stations. D
2007-12-05 22:31:03 · answer #8 · answered by HeavyD 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Boiled rice and Miso soup are best.
Don't forget to add pickled vegetables.
2007-12-05 10:49:36 · answer #9 · answered by oncoshishin 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Okonomiyake is great, especially in the joints where it's the done thing to eat it right off the spatula.
2007-12-05 09:43:59 · answer #10 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋