What is an example of traditional Japanese food?

Question

What is an example of traditional Japanese food?

Answer 1

Soup, noodles, rice, teriyaki, sushi, sashimi, kobe beef, tempura.

Answer 2

sushi and sake!

cheers!

Answer 3

One of my faves is pork and ginger

Answer 4

There's quite a lot of variety- people obviously think of sushi, and that seems to be quite an important as a kind of 'treat' food. Sushi is fish, octopus, squid and other stuff on top of vinegared rice, sashimi is raw fish sliced on a platter, important seasonings for those are soy and wasabi.

Fried beef (yaki niku) and fried chicken (yaki tori) are important forms of fast food, each has its own distinctive sauce. You can get a big bowl of rice called a donburi with different kinds of meat and fish on it, a classic donburi dish is 'Oyako-don', which is chicken and an egg together on a donburi.

A traditional breakfast would be a bowl of miso soup, some rice, maybe some little silver fish, and maybe some sticky soy beans (Natto), with a cup of oriental tea (o-cha). There is a distinctive cold barley tea that is refreshing in summer, that's 'mugi-cha'. There's a really wide variety of teas as you can imagine- macha is powdered green tea prepared with a whisk,  hard to remember the others.

Japan has had it's own style of curry since about the 1920s, very smooth, maybe a little spicier than a korma, and curry and rice is quite an important food.

There's all sorts of fish to be had, hard to remember all the names, and it is not unknown to have a kind of fish barbecue in summer on a little brazier called a shichirin. Quite a lot of cooking 'eating out' is done in front of you, whether it's frying meat on a hot plate, cooking a shellfish until it opens, or frying an 'okonomiyaki' pancake. Okonomiyaki is wonderful, a kind of pancake with cabbage cut into it and whatever fillings you want, served with mayonaise and a date sauce.

Someone mentioned 'Shabu-Shabu', that's another good example.

Convenience stores stock a number of different snacks... 'o-don' is a kind of stew you get to pick the bits you want out of, quite a concentrated flavour I believe. Rice balls are 'o-nigiri' , glutinous rice wrapped in sea weed, and a variety of fillings to choose from. A sweeter snack is mochi, a very gluey kind of rice ball made with powdered rice and filled with sweet red beans- a very sweet dessert is uji-kin-toki, which is red beans, mochi, and ice cream together, I think it can have peanuts on it. That's in restaurants really, back in the conbini, there are all sorts of cakes to be had- 'melon-pan' or melon bread is a big cake like a half football with sugar on the top and supposedly flavoured with melon. 'An-pan' is a smaller bread, filled with red bean.

There are couple of chinese influenced traditional snacks- a 'niku-man' is steamed bread with a meaty filling, eaten with a sinus-cleansingly strong yellow mustard. 'Harumaki' are spring rolls. What else? There's quite a wide range of little condiments to put in the rice, from tiny fish to tiny crabs to different kinds of pickles, and on Kyushu 'basashi', or horse sashimi, is possible. Each area seems to have its own local dish, there's a kind of tasty rolled Tofu  that you can only get in the ancient town of Nikko. I ought to mention the 'jyu-bako' as well, a special food for New Year's Day- actually, ten different dishes, each inside its own box, the whole family sits around and eats from them... I had some once, but so long ago now, I can't remember exactly what was in it... but it was delicious.... or, as the Japanese say, 'oishikatta'!

and sugared horse chesnuts! and sweet potato! Man, all that stuff...

A lot of the Japanese restaurants you will see in the UK are Teppanyaki, or iron board frying- the chef has a big iron hot plate, and he fries everything in front of you. That's dento, but the staff are rarely Japanese. I suppose it's a means of cooking more than a distinct dish, they can do you okonomiyaki, or fat soba buckwheat noodles fried up, or a donburi with eel on it - unagi-don! The only time I tried this, the eel and the sauce was just right, but the rice wasn't proper Japanese rice- it should stick together. Again, each region seems to have its own rice, and the locals are very discerning over the quality of it. I suppose that's the Japanese taste, not all asians prefer rice that sticks together. Having mentioned soba noodles, I suppose it's worth mentioning the range of noodles on offer- the most famous kind is probably ramen, and instant ramen noodles are available to buy almost everywhere. You just take them home, pour in hot water, put the seasoning in, and wait three minutes, and that's all you need. Mighty... Noodles can be in a soup, fried with other ingredients, or served cold. Cold soba is another sort of fast food, just right on a hot day.

Speaking of the heat, vending machines are everywhere in the city, you just keep buying a can on every corner, and the range includes hot and cold coffee and different teas, sweetcorn soup and pure fruit juices. It's more of a modern tradition, but definately part of Japan.

Answer 5

sushi............

Answer 6

Cream of Sum Yung Gai?

Answer 7

We had a very simple dish in a Japanese restaurant in Amsterdam...I make it all the time.

Cube some fillet steak,  chop some garlic.... fry both in very hot oil, over a very high heat in a very hot pan for a minute and eat.

Told you it was simple!

Answer 8

KAISEKI RYORI

Kaiseki-ryori is an artistic and gracious Japanese seasonal cuisine. In fact, it can be said that kaiseki ryori is the ultimate Japanese cuisine. In Japanese, ryori means dishes, so what does "kaiseki" mean? The meaning comes from the story that said Buddhist priests in strict Zen training used to keep a hot stone (seki) in their kimono pocket (kai) in order to make their fasting more bearable. The kaiseki-ryori was originally served during traditional tea ceremonies and is also called cha (tea) kaiseki. It was thought that the tea would taste better if the people weren't starved. So the word "kaiseki" is used for the light meal served during the tea ceremony.

Kaiseki-ryori uses the fresh ingredients of the season and are cooked in ways that enhance the original taste of the ingredients.

Each dish is simply seasoned and presented beautifully in nice dinnerware. Often, things from nature, such as tree leaves and flowers, accompany the dish. Kaiseki-ryori was vegetarian in its origin, but nowadays, the modern kaiseki meal may include meat and seafood.

Japanese people go to a kaiseki restaurant during special occasions. If you need to entertain your special guests, kaiseki-ryori is a good choice. Kaiseki is a meal of courses, consisting of a number of small dishes: steamed dishes, simmered dishes, and grilled dishes. It often includes sliced raw fish (sashimi), tempura, grilled fish, soup, rice, and so on.

The basic cha kaiseki course served in a tea ceremony includes one kind of soup and three kinds of vegetable dishes. In addition, a cup of clear soup called hashiarai (which means washing chopsticks), a plate called hassun, which presents a few kinds of vegetables and seafood, and pickles called konomono.

Although each dish holds only a small serving, it's good to take your time to eat, being sure to enjoy the presentation of the food and the atmosphere of the room. Most kaiseki restaurants are high class and very formal. Consequently, the kaiseki-ryori is usually expensive, since it takes time and skill to prepare. If you eat a course in a kaiseki restaurant, it can cost more than 20,000 yen ($150) per person. Some restaurants are even more expensive. But don't worry, you can also order boxed meals called kaiseki-bento or mini-kaiseki in most of the kaiseki restaurants. These are more reasonably priced and are suitable for lunch. Mini-kaiseki can be under 5,000 yen ($40) per person. Each kaiseki restaurant's prices vary, so you should be able to find a restaurant to match your budget. Just remember to make a reservation. Some Japanese inns serve kaiseki dinner for guests, especially in Kyoto. Outside of Japan

Answer 9

anything with shoyu

Answer 10

shabu-shabu,its a stock broth heated at the table with trad veg and herbs into which you dip a selection of very finely sliced beef (wagyu),I think there is a seafood version as well.

Kind of like a fundue style but without the cheese and bread etc..

Answer 11

Well I know that in some towns in Japan, they KILL and SLAUGHTER dolphins for their meat. b******s.

Answer 12

Sushi, Udon, Rice, Fish, Noodles

Answer 13

Cat, dog, and just about anything else that lives and breathes on land or in water.  Not nice, but true.

Answer 14

When talking about traditional Japanese food, I would think of something which are originated from Japan, therefore, I do not include tempura in this catagory because tempura was introduced by Portugeses!

Tukemono (Japanese Pickles) is a very commn item you can find on traditional Japanese dinining table to serve with rice and miso soup.  Below are some popular tukemono.

Takuan - (white radish - yellow in colour)

umeboshi (sour plums - dark red in colour)

fukujintsuke (usually serve with curry rice)

beni shoga (sour ginger - red in colour, as topping of okonominyaki, yakisoba - Japanese fried noodles, beef rice -Gudon)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukemono

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takuan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umeboshi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukujinzuke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beni_shoga

Answer 15

Other than sushi, here are some typical home/mother cooked meals....

Pickles (all sorts of radish)

Niku-jaga (simmered potato and meat)

Rice Balls

Tamago-yaki (rolled omelette)

Kimpira Gobo (braised burdock)

Simmered Hijiki

Simmered Kabocha

Miso Soup

Spinach Gomaae (spinach salad with sesame sauce)

Potato Korokke

Daigakuimo (candies sweet potatoes)

Takikomi Gohan (mixed rice)

Chawan-mushi (steamed egg custard)

Gyu-don (beef rice bowl)

Unagi-don (eel rice bowl) my favourite! :P

Tonjiru (pork miso soup)

Zoni (rice cake soup)

Shabu shabu (a type of hot pot)

Answer 16

Tempura (battered fish and/or vegetables)

Sushi (actually means RICE, but used to describe raw fish) dishes.

Saba Tatsuta-age (deep fried fish)

Makisushi (. Vegetable Sushi Roll)

Bamboo Shoot & Miso Paste

Squid Teriyaki

Shiitake Soup

Noodles

Rice

Sake

Answer 17

Ramen  - lol

Answer 18

Rice

Sushi

(eg. with Salmon, Reel, And many other fishes Tunas etc)

also egg?!~

Japanese are a copy-cats; they copied 'Kimchi' into 'Kimouchi'...

(Kimchi is originally brewed and made in Korean Culture; it is made up of spicy vegetables such as spicy HOT chilli with a cabbage; the Japanese liked it , and they copied it to Kimouchi (pronounciation)')

Thanks for reading,

Answer 19

BUNBUHUKU