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The Japanese attach as much importance to the aesthetic arrangement of the food as its actual taste. Before touching the food, it is polite to compliment the chef. [7] It is also a polite custom to wait for the eldest or highest ranking guest at the table to start eating before the other diners start. [8]
Foreign food, in particular Chinese food in the form of noodles in soup called ramen and fried dumplings, gyoza, and other food such as curry and hamburger steaks are commonly found in Japan. Historically, the Japanese shunned meat , but with the modernization of Japan in the 1860s, meat-based dishes such as tonkatsu became more common.
In the ASEAN region, Indonesia is the second largest market for Japanese food, after Thailand. Japanese cuisine has been increasingly popular as a result of the growing Indonesian middle-class expecting higher quality foods. [90] This has also contributed to the fact that Indonesia has large numbers of Japanese expatriates.
Traditional - Food originating from local ingredients before the days of refrigeration; Late 19th and early 20th centuries - The influx of foreign culture in the wake of the 1886 Meiji Restoration and the end of national seclusion led to waves of new dishes being invented throughout Japan using new ingredients and cooking methods.
In South Korea, the loanword odeng (오뎅) borrowed from Japanese oden is a synonym of eomuk [broken anchor] (fishcakes). [4] The boiled dish consisting of fishcakes is called by the names such as odeng-tang ( 오뎅탕 ) or eomuk-jeongol ( 어묵전골 ), with the words such as tang (soup) or jeongol (hot pot) attached to the ingredient name.
Katsudon. Katsudon (Japanese: カツ丼) is a popular Japanese food, a bowl of rice topped with a deep-fried breaded pork cutlet, egg, vegetables, and condiments.. The dish takes its name from the Japanese words tonkatsu (for 'pork cutlet') and donburi (for 'rice bowl dish').
Tamago kake gohan (Japanese: 卵かけご飯, lit. ' egg on rice ') is a popular Japanese breakfast food consisting of cooked Japanese rice topped or mixed with raw egg and soy sauce. In Japan uncooked eggs are usually safe to eat as steps have been taken to reduce the occurrence of salmonella in eggs.
There are two types of nabemono in Japan: lightly flavored stock (mostly with kombu) types such as yudōfu (湯豆腐) and mizutaki (水炊き), eaten with a dipping sauce to enjoy the taste of the ingredients themselves; and strongly flavored stock, typically with miso, soy sauce, dashi, and/or sweet soy types such as yosenabe (寄鍋), oden ...