Next, Bian Xiao will help you solve it. What is the best food in Japan? See if you have eaten these foods!
1. Japanese bakery
The Best Food in Japan-Melons in Japanese Bakeries
I bet you think Lamian Noodles and sushi will be at the top of this list. There is no doubt that sushi and Lamian Noodles are amazing Japanese dishes, but for traditional things, please be sure to visit Japanese bakeries. ?
You won't have any difficulty in finding bakeries because they are all over Japan. In any city, there may be dozens of different bakeries. There are local bakeries even in rural areas. ?
In big cities such as Tokyo or Osaka, you can find bakeries near the train station or even the train station.
These bakeries have traditional Japanese desserts, such as manju and anpan (red bean paste candy), French bread, and even unique ideas, such as melon bread (メロンパンン-Meron pan).
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These round cakes are slightly crispy and sugary at the top and soft and chewy at the center. Although it will look like a melon as the name suggests, it is not.
This is a perfect dessert when you want to eat something on the trip. ?
If you like delicious bread, please go to Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. This bakery has some of the best bread in the world.
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The Best Food in Japan-Eel
If you have never tasted eel before, you have missed it. Although eating eel may disappoint some people, you must try it before coming to Japan. Eel is a kind of seafood, but it doesn't have a strong "sea" flavor. ?
When kabayaki style (baked in sweet soy sauce) is ready, it tastes more like beef than fish. It has good fat and perfectly balances sweet soy sauce and rice.
Although this kind of food can be eaten all year round, it is especially popular in summer. Shizuoka Prefecture is famous for its delicious unagikabayaki.
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The Best Food in Japan-Ichimachi Taro
This dessert is the ultimate choice for a delicious and balanced dessert. "Ichigo" means strawberry, and "daifuku" literally means good luck.
This wonderful dessert is a sweet and slightly rich Japanese strawberry covered with red bean paste. ?
They are all wrapped in soft hemp (rice cakes).
Every bite can get sweet sweetness from red bean paste, and a refreshing taste from strawberry, coupled with soft hemp, adds amazing texture.
You may have to keep your eyes open to find it in Japan.
They are sold in many places, but because of the short shelf life (it may last for a few days if it is kept cool, but most stores will be off the shelves in a day or less), the stores have not brought huge inventory. ?
Convenience stores (all Japan) convenience stores and supermarkets. You may also see a small shop selling Japanese sweets. Give it a try!
4. Carragher chicken
The Best Food in Japan-Roasted Chicken
Karaage is Japanese fried chicken. Pickled small boneless thighs or breasts are a combination of soy sauce, sugar, garlic, ginger, sake and other flavors. Then wrap the seasoned chicken with potato starch and fry it.
Although very simple, it is one of the best fried chicken that can be found anywhere in the world. ?
Every work has a perfect flesh-to-flesh ratio, which is very juicy. It's hot and crisp outside, which goes well with the gravy.
This dish is served in many restaurants all over Japan.
This is a common menu item in fast teishoku restaurant, izakaya (Japanese bar/bar), convenience stores and even small shops, and nothing is sold except karaage.
5.KatsuCurry
The Best Food in Japan-Katsu Curry
Japanese curry rice is a delicious and satisfying food. But why not take it to another level and add a juicy pork chop or chicken chops?
Crispy and fleshy katsu makes every bite of curry more beautiful. There are many places to buy curry powder. Most of them are also very cheap. CoCo is a popular curry chain in Japan.
Yipinxuan. They are all over Japan (even other parts of the world). But you will also find that many little mothers and popular shops also serve katsu curry.
6. bento-Japanese bento
Bento-Japanese bento
If you want to eat what the local people eat, you must bring a lunch box. You can find these box lunches everywhere. They are sold in supermarkets, convenience stores, food stores, basements of department stores and food stalls. ?
There are many different lunches for you to choose from. You can choose a box lunch with fish, croquettes, eggs, shumai and vegetables. Or you may want some more interesting fried chicken lunch or hamburger steak.
They also sell lunch boxes at many bullet stations (usually of higher quality than supermarkets, but also more expensive).
These bentos, called "Ekiben" (literally railway station bento), are the perfect way to enjoy food on bullet trains.
7. Japanese fruit
The Best Food in Japan-Japanese Fruit
Have you ever heard of Japanese melon at $65,438+000 or grape at 1 000? Although I have no doubt that they must be delicious, most of us won't (or won't) pay hundreds of dollars for a piece of fruit. ?
The good news is you didn't. Some fruits with normal prices in the supermarket are still great. If you go in winter, you must try mikan (orange) or grape peaches in summer.
If you stay in a Japanese hotel (a traditional Japanese hotel), you can generally choose whether to buy rice or not. Many good Japanese hotels use the best fruits in Japan as their dessert courses.
Many exquisite traditional Japanese restaurants also use delicious Japanese fruits for dinner.
sushi
The Best Food in Japan-Japanese Sushi
Do you really think we can delete sushi from this list? Of course not! The fresh ingredients prepared by the best sushi chef in the world are unparalleled. ?
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Zushi (conveyor sushi) restaurant is also great. Kaiten sushi restaurant uses machines to make rice, but it's still delicious ... and cheap! There are many places that offer 100 yen sushi plates.
Japan not only has the best seafood in the world, but also their knowledge and preparation skills make sushi must be tried in Japan.
9. Kobe beef
The Best Food in Japan-Kobe Beef
Kobe beef. The holy grail of beef. It's expensive, but it's worth it. I mean, look at those marbles! These specially bred beef will produce fat and melt at the touch. ?
What does this mean? It will also melt in your mouth. The smooth and delicious marble pattern makes it the king of all steaks. However, the texture and taste are so different, it is not like ordinary steak you find in other parts of the world.
If you live in other parts of the world, especially in the United States, it is almost impossible to eat real Kobe beef. Only a small amount is exported to the United States and other selected countries. Many restaurants use Kobe.
Their menu is named "beef", but the fact is that it is not true. ?
That's right. You've been eating Kobe beef burger? Definitely not real Kobe beef.
You can't order real Kobe beef either. You need to go to an export place, such as Macau or Hong Kong, but why not get it from the source?
But even in Japan, there are many places that claim to supply Kobe beef. These places serve Kobe beef, which is cheap, but it is not what you should look for.
If you want to try Kobe beef, you need to make sure to try Kobe beef grade. Use A4 or A5 grade. ?
Most legal Kobe beef restaurants have it, such as Moriya in Kobe. Just try it.
You won't regret it.
10. Soft cream
The Best Food in Japan-Soft Cream
Vanilla flavor. Chocolate. Matcha green tea. Strawberries and even mustard. These are just a few soft cream or soft ice cream flavors that you can find all over Japan. If you eat sweets, cream is a must. ?
It's creamy, slippery and explosive. If you think you have had real matcha green tea ice cream before, please think twice. Japanese matcha green tea cream has taken it to another level.
Every region in Japan has special soft cream. You can find flavors such as grapes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and even onions.
1 1 spicy noodles
The Best Japanese Food-Lamian Noodles
Of course, without Lamian Noodles, there would be no Japanese food list. Many different types of broth are used in Lamian Noodles. ?
The most common ones are pig bone soup (super rich and delicious broth made of pig bones), soy sauce (soy sauce base), shio (clarified to yellowish broth with salt as the main seasoning), miso (fermented bean paste) and torigara (chicken).
Noodles are Chinese noodles of various shapes and thicknesses.
When you are in Japan, you need to try Lamian Noodles. Broth and noodles are not only delicious, but also pasta is great. Common ingredients are charcoal, fish cake and vegetables. ?
The good news is that you can find a Lamian Noodles store anywhere in Japan.
If you don't mind thick broth, please choose tonkotsu Lamian noodles. There are two famous chain restaurants in Japan that serve pork bone dishes and Ichiran.
If you want something light, you can try shio or shoyu Lamian noodles.
12. tempura
The best food in Japanese tempura
Japan used tempura to push the art of stirring and frying food to another height. If you try tempura in other parts of the world (even in Japan), the batter is usually thick and sometimes delicious. ?
However, if you go to a restaurant that specializes in tempura, or there is a better Japanese restaurant on the menu, you will enjoy amazing seafood and vegetables.
These professional tempura chefs can make the batter light enough for you to see. ?
Although it looks nothing special, you will find how perfect it is.
Thin and super-crisp batter allows food to penetrate, instead of eating large pieces of batter in every bite. Tsuyu or tempura sauce is also important. ?
In tempura restaurant, you will get a sauce made of magical ingredients such as dried bonito slices and special soy sauce. There are no bottled things in these upscale places.
13.Yakiniku
The Best Food in Japan-Kebab
Although many people think of Korean food when they hear yakiniku, it is necessary to try it when you are in Japan.
There are many high-quality barbecue shops in Korea, but the general consensus of barbecue lovers is that Japanese barbecue is supreme in beef. ?
However, if you enter Hormone, then South Korea is its territory.
There are many different barbecue shops all over Japan. Some of them are very cheap, others are free, using the best Kobe beef (see item 9 in this list).
Surprisingly, many barbecue shops in Japan offer "tabehoudai", which means "everything you can eat"
So if you pay a certain price, you can eat yakiniku as much as possible within a certain time limit (usually 90- 120 minutes).
Some of these restaurants also serve "nomihoudai", which means "all you can drink"
This is the right person. You can eat all the midnight snacks you want and drink all the wine you want ... usually about $50 or less.
If it doesn't affect you, I don't know what it will be
14. Tayyaki
The Best Food in Japan-Taiyaki
These lovely red bean cakes are shaped like small fish. On the street, even in the food section of large department stores, you will see small stores selling these stores. Dough is sweet and light, but it has a very pleasant feeling when chewed. ?
The traditional taiyaki is full of sweet red beans, but the modern version is full of cream, custard, cheese, chocolate or sweet potatoes. They are usually cheap and taste good when they are freshly baked.
15. Pancakes
The Best Food in Japan-Japanese Pancakes
There are many crepe shops all over Japan. There are good reasons for this. Japan must know how to make delicious crepes! There are many different flavors to choose from. ?
Fresh fruit, ice cream, custard, pudding and even salty food such as tuna and sausage can be added.
16. Grilled chicken kebabs
The Best Food in Japan-Roasted Chicken Brochette
Grilled chicken skewers, or roast chicken, are as simple as that, but somehow they are better than trying to roast chicken at home. What is the secret? In addition to using high-quality ingredients, legal kebab restaurants also use charcoal to barbecue. ?
Each part of the grill has a different amount of charcoal, which means that the temperature of each part is different. Cooking every piece of chicken perfectly requires skill and fire prevention.
The two main flavors of roast chicken skewers are shio (salt) and skin (sauce). If you like the natural taste of chicken, please try shio. If you want something sweeter, the sweet soy sauce glaze is in your alley. ?
Although you can order many parts of chicken (yes, there are many parts in Japan, only breasts, thighs and wings), we still suggest you try chicken butt.
So juicy and crispy, you will wonder why there is no chicken ass in other parts of the world.
17. Indian food
The Best Food in Japan-Indian Food
Indian food? In Japan? Shouldn't you be going to India? Well, it may be true, but the Indian food in Japan is so delicious and real that it is worth going to Japan. ?
There are many Indian restaurants in Japan. They are great.
Traveling to Japan without eating Japanese food seems a bit wasteful, but once you have tasted the delicious South, Donduri chicken and curry, you will soon change your mind. ?
Dinner in many Indian restaurants in Japan is quite expensive, but they offer very reasonable lunch packages. If you want to try different foods or need to have a rest after Japanese food, you must go to one of the many Indian restaurants in Japan.
18. Omris
The Best Food in Japan-Omuraisu
Omurice literally means "fried eggs and rice". This dish influenced by western food is basically a friend's rice covered with an egg roll. Omurice has many different taste combinations. ?
The standard version is a tomato sauce made by a friend's rice, with an omelet on it and tomato sauce on it. ?
However, recent varieties include risotto omelet, semi-glaze, beef stew, curry and even cream stew.
Some specialty restaurants only serve omurice, or many western-style restaurants also have menus.
19. Fresh seafood
The Best Food in Japan-Fresh Seafood-Crab
Of course, you can get fresh seafood by eating sushi, but there are other dishes to try in Japan. One of them is a crab. If you have seen that huge moving crab sign in Osaka, this is a company called "
KaniDoraku "chain restaurant.
This is just one of the restaurants where you can try to cook sample crabs in many ways. You can try raw, roasted, steamed and tempura cooking.
Another seafood that is not sushi is oysters. Oysters are a specialty of Miyajima, Hiroshima Prefecture. If you go there, you can see many suppliers barbecue fresh oysters. ?
They're amazing.
Or you can eat a popular dish called "kakifurai", which means "fried oysters". These oysters are wrapped in panko bread crumbs and fried. It is usually eaten with Tata sauce. ?
These fried oysters can be found in the food section of supermarkets, convenience stores and winter department stores.
Chinese dumpling
The Best Japanese Food-jiaozi
China jiaozi stuffed with pork and vegetables is a perfect compliment to spicy noodles (No.1 1 in this list), or they are excellent in themselves. If you think you have a good jiaozi, think again.
The filling is very juicy. When you take a bite, the juice will flow out. ?
The wrapping paper is very thin, but it is also soft and chewy, giving it an amazing texture.
You can find these anywhere, even in convenience stores, but it's a safe bet in Yokohama or Kobe's Chinatown. But many restaurants in izakaya, China and Lamian Noodles also have jiaozi.
2 1. Matcha green tea dessert
Matcha green tea cake
There are many green tea desserts in Japan. Matcha green tea cake, cream puff, chocolate, soft ice cream, cake ... you name them, they may have them. ?
However, if you go to a good bakery or restaurant that serves green tea desserts, you will find that Japanese matcha is more and more rich in flavor and perfectly balanced with desserts.
If you are a fan of matcha green tea, you need to try at least one delicious dessert in Japan!
Although many places in Japan have good matcha green tea, Yuji in Kyoto is famous for its wonderful tea. As we all know, Uji's matcha products are rich in flavor, which is also the reason for many desserts in Japan.
As you may know, Japan has matcha green tea flavor package -Kats.
Most boxed teas with green tea flavors use Uji Matcha. Give it a try!