Japanese food?!
Japanese food?
i know about some traditional japanese food, but what would a japanese meal plan for an entire day look like? please give me a sample menu for breakfast lunch and dinner...... what's a japanese breakfast anyway?
Answers:
Traditonal Japanese breakfast consists of steamed rice, miso (soy bean paste) soup, and side dishes.
Popular Japanese lunch dishes are rice bowls and various noodles. For example, beef bowls, soba noodles, ramen noodles, and udon noodles are popular. Many people bring bento (lunch boxes) to school or work. Popular lunch box menus are rice balls, sushi rolls, steamed rice, and various sandwiches.
Dinner is the main meal in a day. You might be surprised by the variety of food available in Japan. You'll find that not only sushi or tempura are popular, but also Italian, Chinese, Korean, French, and American dishes. For example, spaghetti, hamburgers, and Korean BBQ are some of the most popular menu items among Japanese children. The current Japanese cuisine is highly influenced by other Asian and western countries. Japanese people adapted the cuisine to their eating habits, creating their own dishes from foreign fare.
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When I was in Japan I typically had natto with maguro and a quails egg for breakfast. Okinomiyaki or another street-vender's fare was a good lunch, though I sometimes went to a Ramen place. Dinner was often shabu shabu or tongatsu or another Japanes main course. I never ever even once ate American. Japanese and French food, in that order, are the best in all the world.
I will try to be as general as I can, but just like in the U.S., foods and eating habits vary by region.
In general a typical Japanese breakfast could include any or all of the following:
miso soup, nikujaga, or tonjiru
raw/softboiled (onsen tamago) egg with soy sauce and chopped green onion.
salad (usually with a soy sauce based, ginger, or vinigrette dressing)
natto (fermented soy beans, usually mixed with soy sauce and hot mustard or aoshiso)
some kind of grilled fish
pickles (tsukemono)
nori
Lunch tends to be lighter, many people eat only onigiri (rice balls) which can have almost anything inside and may or may not be wrapped in nori. Other popular options might be sushi, udon, ramen, donburi (rice in a bowl with something on top like sauteed beef and onion, stirfried tofu, deepfried porkchop panfried again with an scrambbled egg, etc.) or soba (which may or may not be served with tempura).
Dinner tends to be the biggest meal of the day, particularly if it is a part of one of the not infrequent work parties. It is difficult to generalize about dinner, because there are so many possibilities. Any of the above might be eaten in addition to yakiniku (also known as korean or mongolian BBQ) - the diners sit around a hotplate or grill and fry their own meat and vegetables at the table. It is generally precut into thin bitesize pieces and dipped in one of a variety of sauces. Similarly there is also shabushabu - it is basically the same as yakiniku, but instead of a grill the raw meat is dipped in boiling water. Added to these are then an almost inexhaustable array of regional dishes.
Then of course, foriegn food has become really popular as well. Especially in big cities you have almost the same array of choices as you would in the U.S.