Japanese Food

Breakfast
A Japanese breakfast might include a clear miso (bean curd) soup, some boiled rice and fried egg.
A Lunch menu
Noodles and pickled vegetables
Sushi which is thin slices of raw fish served in blocks of rice, wrapped in seaweed. It's may be dipped into soy sauce before being eaten.

Dinner
Nabemono
Nabemono are quick-cooked stews using either fish, seafood, chicken or meat and with or without vegetables. The stew is cooked and served bubbling in its pot at the table and everyone dips in to take a serving. One special kind of nabemono is beef sukiyaki. Its made with thinly sliced pieces of beef quickly cooked at the table and dipped into raw egg before its eaten. Nabemono dishes are popular in the cooler months of autumn and winter.
Tempura
Seafood and vegetables are dipped into a batter of flour, eggs and iced water and then fired quickly in oil.
Sea vegetables
Sea vegetables are certain species of marine algae (seaweeds) such as kelp, rockweed, gulfweed, and laver. When fresh seaweeds are cooked they taste like salty green vegetables. They can also be dried. Sea vegetables are used in stews and broth, soups and salads. Some are used to wrap sushi and dried fish.

The Japanese drink tea, beer and a wine made from rice known as sake.

Go here for more about Japanese food including recipes to try. http://www.bento.com/l1-3.html

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updated March 2003