Japanese Food Culture - Traditional Japanese Food
Japanese Food Culture Super Foods that will make your mouth water. 10 Tokyo travel Tips on Food. The Gastronomic secrets of the Japanese food art.
Many people hesitate before tasting Traditional Japanese Foods, especially the raw dishes.
This is a pity since there is nothing like Traditional Japanese culture for an exciting gastronomic experience with Super tastes, colors and smells.
Food in Tokyo won't make you feel heavy. A Traditional Japanese Meal hardly contains any butter, sugar, fat or red meat.
The traditional Japanese Diet
is considered one of the main reasons that local people have one of the longest life spans in the world.
Traditional Japanese Foods Tokyo Travel Tips
A very widespread belief is that
Food in Tokyo
has to be expensive. It's true that there are
Tokyo Restaurants
where you will pay a fortune, but besides them there are thousands of Restaurants selling yummy food in Tokyo, without being pricey.
Japanese Food Culture is influenced by the fact that most Tokyo office workers commute for more than an hour to work.
That's why the population of Tokyo has a Japanese Food Culture of plenty of affordable Restaurants along the day and into the
Tokyo Nightlife
scene.
The typical office worker eats 2-3 meals a day in Restaurants. He ends his working day by drinking and eating with his colleagues before commuting home.
The problem of hygiene which you have in many other countries in Asia does not exist in Tokyo. All Tokyo Restaurants are clean and safe to eat in.
Japanese Breakfast in Tokyo
contains many small dishes which look like a lot of food to the western eye. Together they make a 'power breakfast' that is surprisingly very light.
What Is A Traditional Japanese Meal?
A Traditional Japanese Meal typically includes Japanese Rice, Miso soup, fish (usually two dishes one hot and one cold), Japanese pickles and
Green tea.
Another type of Traditional Japanese Foods is the noodles. There are at least 10 kinds of different noodles here. The noodles are served in soups Ramen, or fried Yaki Soba.
For a list of the local noodles see
Traditional Japanese Foods part 2.
Another type of Japanese Food - Sushi.
What is Sushi? Sushi is small pieces of seafood. Sushi is served with Japanese pickles, Ginger, Wasabi (very spicy) and soy sauce.
You pour some soy sauce into a small plate and add a little (!!) Wasabi. You then mix the Wasabi into the Soy. The Sushi is then dipped with the help of the chopsticks into the sauce.
To be on the safe side order
- Chutoro Tuna
- Ebi- Shrimps
- Ikura Salmon fish eggs
- Torigai oyster
Sashimi is the raw fish or seafood itself, served without Rice.
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