What is your favorite Japanese food?

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Gigi

I LOVE Japanese food and I lived in Tokyo also for 3 years.

You must try the following dishes which are not very known by many foreigners, and are delicious!

1) Shabu Shabu (thing sliced of kobe beef cooked in a hot pot in front you with hot water. After beef is cooked, you dip into two different sauces). This is absolutely my favorite dish ever!

2) Sukyaki: similar than shabu shabu, but all ingredientes are cooked together in a large pot with eggs.

3) Tempura: vegetables and shrimp tempura. You don't find many good tempura dishes outside Japan, so eat there!

4) Gioza places. Small shops only for giozas (small dumplings)

5) Yakitori: barbecue chicken. The best places to eat yakitoria are those small places set on the street. Around Ginza has a very good place near the Station. Ask around.

6) Japanese curry: very different than Indian curry and it is really good.

7) Although it is not Japanese, try Korean Barbecue. Japanese love it and there are many excellent korean bbq places in Japan. In USA it is very expensive, so eat there...

8) Japanese sweets are very good too and they are not very sweet and high in sugar

9) Go to ramen shops. Many Japanese eat ramen soups after a long night out. they are everywhere.

10) Eat a good oodon soup too. Specially in the winter. Choose with the one with shrimp and/or tempura on top. My favourite.

Japan has excellent culinary schools. Even if you are not eating Japanese food, any other cuisine in Japan is excellent. My favorite Italian, Tai and Chinese restaurants are located there. So try many food there...

Good luck. Ganbate-kudasai

Carl_the_Truth

Grilled eel over rice.

Joriental

Don't forget to try Okonomiyaki + beer.

oncoshishin

Boiled rice and Miso soup are best.
Don't forget to add pickled vegetables.

seamonkeywater

Tempura and (i dont know the proper name) the shrimp-piece on rice sushi. Oh I just love shrimp thats biased. But I love those the most.

And mochi ice-cream!!

SMS

Tonkatsu

Yakisoba

Mmm, I miss both.

JWOBKK

I love shabu shabu

Sakura

Okonomiyaki...

HeavyD

Curry rice! It is cheap and very filling...available at specialty shops and in ALL big train stations. D

lost Man.

OMG!!! I love FOOD!

Sushi
Katsu-don
Ten-don
Tempura
Yaki tori
tofu
gyoza
shumai
ETC!

thirdfrikkingaccount

chicken teriyaki from sarku japan= heavean!

Godfather's Pizza

If you like playing with food, then go to a conveyor belt sushi restaurant. That's fun. Or how about the gyoza museum world in Tokyo where you can sample all sorts of gyoza in an adventurous surrounding? Howabout tachigui soba? You can order a cheap bowl of delicious noodles and eat it while standing at a counter.

Best bet is to make Japanese friends. Take up offers to go out with people until you get into a crowd of foodies, then stick with them. You'll be eating noodles sliding down bamboo pipes, eating sashimi straight from the wiggling fish, slurping ramen at the best ramenya, making your own noodles, etc.

Have fun.

michinoku2001

Okonomiyake is great, especially in the joints where it's the done thing to eat it right off the spatula.

Cieguilla

There's a restaurant in the Shinsaibashi area of Osaka where I had a delicious dish with noodles, sauce and fried squid on top. So yummy I had to go back for more before coming back home!

Ash G

Shabu shabu, okonomiyaki, tempura....mmmmm!! the sweets and cakes are good too. There's so many different foods in Japan, the choices are amazing!

Baysoc23

Ramen and gyoza. I know, I know, they're not originally Japanese, but the Japanese have made them their own.

mor e

Sayaka at the Salad Bar Hotel is dericious

Kei5

Nabe is the best for this season.
A pot with many ingredients it's kinda stew.
It's a party menu so if you have some friends in Japan,you must try at least once!!
http://season.nifty.com/winter/nabe/list.html
http://image-search.yahoo.co.jp/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=top_v2&p=%E9%8D%8B

BTW the Japanese are usually taught not to play with their food by their parents.

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Daisuke

California Maki and Tempura! Since you're there, try the Hot Springs! Co-ed is better... ^_^

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