The traditional Japanese food staple food can only be white rice, and other noodles or rice staple foods are not allowed, and then other dishes-fish, meat, vegetables, pickles and soup are served. The names of dishes are named after the number of these dishes. For example, the simplest Japanese meal is "one-dish meal" (Japanese: one juice and one dish/ぃちじゅぅぃっさぃぃぃぃ), which consists of a dish of pickles (usually pickled radish).

Japanese traditional Japanese food and beverage decorations are very delicate, just like works of art. The representative is Huaishi cuisine. For the Japanese, these aesthetic Japanese dishes are just daily traditional diets; However, this aesthetic style did not exist since ancient times, but was deliberately formed at the end of Meiji era in order to export its excellent culture to western countries.