Cuisine

Fruits and Vegetables

Vegetables

• Soybeans
• White Peach
• Seaweed
• Rice
• Eggplant
• Ginger
• Cabbage
• Carrot
• Snow peas
• Peanuts
• Radish
• Yams
• Leeks
• Onion
• Green Onion
• Celery
• Water chestnuts
• Mushrooms
• Cucumber
• Bell Pepper
• Green Pepper

Fruits

• Pear
• Peach
• Cherry
• Orange
• Pineapple
• Durian
• Lychee
• Kumquat
• Passion-fruit
• Goji Berries
• Plum
• Apple
• Melon

Entrees

• Sushi - rolls made from rice, raw fish, and other ingredients
• Sashimi -fresh raw fish slices
• Ramen - thin wheat noodles
• Udon - thick wheat noodles
• Soba - buckweat noodles
• Yakisoba - stir fried soba noodles
• Tofu -curd made from soybeans
• Tempura -battered and deep fired shrimp
• Yakitori -skewered barbecued chicken
• Donburi -bowl of rice and meat
• Natto -sticky fermented soybeans
• Tonkatsu -breaded and fried pork
• Curry and Rice -sometimes served with a meat like tonkatsu
• Sukiyaki -slow cooked sliced beef with vegetables and soy sauce
• Miso Soup -broth with a fermented soybean paste mixed in
• Okonomiyaki -savory pancakes with a variety of toppings and sauces available
• Grilled Eel -glazed with sweetened soy sauce
• Onigiri -rice balls
• Gyoza -dumplings
• Takoyaki -octopus balls
• Wagyu Beef - high quality marbled steaks

Desserts

• Dango -sweet rice dumplings on a skewer
• Red Bean Paste Buns -buns with a sweet red bean paste filling
• Taiyaki -cakes in the shape of a fish with sweet filling
• Mochi -rice and cornstarch balls, often with sweet filling
• Kashipan - melon bread

Drinks

Tea

• Sencha -standard green tea
• Matcha -made from powdered green tea leaves mixed in water
• Mugicha -Not actually from the tea plant, mugicha is made from roasted barley, and is commonly drank in the summer
• Gyokuro - The highest quality green tea thats grown in very specific conditions
• Genmaicha - green tea with roasted rice
• Hojicha - roasted green tea leaves
• Sakura - Green tea flavored with cherry blossom petals

Alcohol

• Sake -rice wine
• Plum Wine
• Whisky

Other

• Soda - flavored carbonized drinks
• Aojiru -a drink made from kale