We eat brushes and pans, the Japanese actually eat pots and pans. In winter, pot is even more popular. However, here to say, not all people eat pot. Many people know that the Japanese are meal system, in the family dinner is each dish according to the person divided into a one by one to eat, some people are strict adherence to, absolutely do not allow everyone's chopsticks to a plate to go to the pinch, so the family naturally can not eat pot. My mother-in-law's family was not very particular about this, so I naturally came across a lot of Japanese pots and pans when I came to Japan. There are many types of Japanese pots and pans, and in addition to brushing pots, many of them are made in Japanese clay pots, which are similar to our casseroles. You can do Korean-style spicy cabbage pot, there are also many other pots, such as fish-based pot, chicken-based pot, different regions, eat different pots. I'm going to talk about one of the more unique ones, Sukiyaki - after searching many translation sites, I found that this one is called Chicken Sukiyaki, which actually has nothing to do with chicken at all. When you eat it, you grill the beef first and add a special seasoning and water to it. The seasoning is in liquid form, and it is a mixture of soy sauce and sugar, and the flavor of fish seasoning. The beef is usually eaten first, and when the beef is almost finished, various vegetables, mushrooms such as enoki mushrooms and matsutake mushrooms, tofu, corns, and so on are added to the beef-soaked pot. Even, by the way, the best feature of this hot pot is to dip it in raw egg! (Into the picture)

2, barbecue class

Japanese people are very much in love with barbecue, no matter how many barbecue restaurants, always full of people. Every holiday BBQ family is also particularly large, the supermarket barbecue with a variety of dipping sauces, basically every family will also have an electric grill pot, from time to time in the home can also be grilled meat. Japanese barbecue, I summarize, the first not only grilled meat, but also grilled a lot of vegetables, will not be too much fat intake, the second is really expensive. Speaking of this, it is somewhat related to the topic we have been working on recently, which involves Japan's food self-sufficiency rate. Japan's food self-sufficiency rate is only about 40%, which is related to the post-war Japanese dietary structure, 50-60 years ago, the Japanese people were a cereal and fish-based diet, the intake of beef and milk is very small, the self-sufficiency rate at that time was about 90%, after the war Japan through a high period of economic growth, the structure of the diet has also been changed, Japan is an island, but not how to eat fish is more and more people. Now the Japanese people love beef, but cattle after all to grain as feed, Japan can not produce so much, can only be imported from abroad, foreign imports of cereals to raise livestock, will inevitably result in high costs, expensive. Later, and a large number of imported beef. This vicious circle, resulting in a lower and lower rate of self-sufficiency, some people say, this is the United States after the war against Japan's economic strategy. Recently, Japan is also advocating the restoration of the Japanese-style diet, advocating self-production and self-marketing, in order to improve the self-sufficiency rate. Say Japan's beef it, beef is divided into three categories, the first is called and cattle, the so-called and, refers to Japan, Japan is known as the Yamato nation, this cow is a native Japanese cattle, this and cattle, most of the price is not expensive, some of the famous, such as Matsuzaka cattle, Konohagi cattle, are particularly expensive, of course, the taste is also the best, basically is the entrance to the feeling of instantaneous. The second type is called domestic cattle, this kind of domestic cattle can easily be misunderstood as Japanese production, in fact, this kind of cattle is indeed born in Japan, but in the calf period was sent abroad to feed, the price is relatively cheap. The third is imported from abroad, generally produced in the United States, Australia and Canada, the majority of supermarkets sell most of this beef, the price is also relatively popular.

3, noodles

Japanese people also love noodles. Udon, ramen, and soba are all very popular. Udon noodles are actually noodles that are thicker and more sinewy, and can be made into soups or eaten cold like cold noodles. I am from the Northeast, before I came to Japan, I had no contact with soba, soba shape is similar to noodles, the color is close to black, there is buckwheat unique fragrance, there are people who can not accept this special aroma, I still like it. However, this buckwheat is not easy to digest, but also more likely to cause allergies, I almost do not give children to eat. In Japan, we must eat soba on New Year's Eve, it is called "Nenkoshi Soba", only eat this to pass the meaning of the old year. As for ramen, I feel that the Japanese love for ramen is no less than I, a local northeasterner. Japan to China as the source of ramen, but I think Japan's ramen more flavor, we often also often eat noodles in northeastern people, mostly for the general hot soup noodles, that is, popping the pot, soup seasoned with salt and monosodium glutamate (MSG). Japan's noodle soup is mostly old pork bone soup, the flavor is simple. The taste is divided into soy sauce flavor, salt flavor and sauce (みそ日本酱汤的原料) flavor, I personally prefer the third. A good ramen store, often at noon and night rows waiting for seats to eat, in our view to eat a bowl of noodles and spend tens of minutes seems to be very unworthy, which, too, can be seen in the Japanese people on the ramen a love it.

4, Japan's unique food

A おでん (Kanto boiled)

This if eaten at home, in fact, should be divided into the pot category. At home, you can usually make this in a clay pot. I prefer to eat it at the store, where it's served in a years-old broth and cooked all the way through on low heat, which makes it especially flavorful, especially the daikon radish, and the beef tendon, which is so delicious. This way of eating is more down and dirty, people who have seen the machine cat may be familiar with this scene, Konfo's father after work, and his boss in the street stalls while eating this drink, and in fact, a lot of Japanese working class people really after work, a few close friends eat and drink and chat, very interesting. The Chinese translation of this thing is called Kanto Boiled, before I never understood, I always thought it was Osaka as the center of the Kansai region's famous food, checked some websites only to find out that this thing from the beginning of the origin of the Edo (Tokyo's ancient name, around Tokyo also into the Kanto) region, so it has this name, right.

Bたこ焼き（章鱼小丸子）

I think this must be more familiar with the domestic also have a lot of such stalls, in Japan this thing is more common, the basic shopping center of the dining floor have such a store, but also many people also do it at home, it is necessary to think that it is very difficult to do this thing, because this do this thing like that with a small hole in the iron plate everywhere there are sales (into the picture), I do not like this thing too much, I do not like this thing, I do not want to see this thing, I do not like this thing. ), I'm not too much of a fan of this stuff, but it's still fun to participate in the process of making it when you eat it at home.

Cお好み焼き

The Chinese translation of this, I really do not know, checked some places, turned out to be a variety of fried vegetable cake. From the point of view of practice, it's still quite graphic. In Japanese, the word "Okonomiyaki" has the meaning of preference, that is, you can pan-fry your favorite things and eat them. That being said, there are some basics to it, including mixing flour and mashed yam in a certain ratio, frying it with meat or adding cuttlefish strips, and adding a lot of things on top, such as cheese, spicy cabbage, and so on. I personally feel that it is somewhat similar to pizza in preparation and appearance.

It can be said that during World War II, the Japanese could carry out a massacre of the Chinese, and even dared to eat the hearts, livers, intestines and lungs of the Chinese ！！！！ At the time of Japan's defeat after WWII, Japan's supplies were no longer enough, and the Japanese could only eat shit and drink urine. The others had no choice, either the US feeds it after WWII.