Top 10 Most Famous Traditional Japanese Foods

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Yakitori

Yakitori is a popular dish in Japan made from chicken cut into skewers on bamboo sticks and grilled over a charcoal fire. Often featured on the menus of izakaya and casual restaurants in Japan, this is a good suggestion if you're wandering the streets of Tokyo and want a late-night meal. It is especially tastier when combined with alcohol. In addition, if you go to a Japanese festival, this food will definitely be an indispensable dish if you want to participate in the festival wholeheartedly. 

Yakitori is ordered according to the portion of the chicken. You'll also find other meats and vegetables on the stick. It is usually seasoned with gentle spices before being put on the grill, so this is a fairly simple and easy dish for Japanese people. After grilling, you can eat directly on the stick or remove the chicken on a plate and serve with rice. 

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Sukiyaki

Sukiyaki is a dish cooked in a small iron skillet, which is popular in autumn and winter in Japan. It became popular in Japan around the 19th century. This dish is prepared at home or also on the menu of the restaurant, this will be a dish you think of right when you are craving a nutritious dish.

Sukiyaki is made from a variety of ingredients, such as thin beef, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, and tofu. Diners prepare their own dishes by grilling the meat pieces in a pan after pouring over a few drops of sukiyaki sauce. After the ingredients are cooked, to eat sukiyaki in the traditional way, soak the meat or vegetables in the egg yolk. This is a delicious and nutritious dish, served with rice and will help you get more nutritious and warm on cold days. 

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Oden

Oden is a dish made from a variety of ingredients stewed in broth. The ingredients are chosen to enhance the flavor of dashi (usually composed of a mixture of seafood and seaweed) and have a salty, sweet flavor. Oden has been eaten for a long time in Japan and is believed to have been first created in the Muromachi period (1336-1573).

Pale vegetables, tofu and fish are common ingredients in oden. White radish (daikon), a thick-rooted tuber, can be found in most oden shops. Another popular option is ganmodoki, a multi-vegetable mixture with tofu made in a circle.

Restaurants and street food stalls sell oden, sometimes you can even see it at convenience stores in the fall and winter. In Tokyo's Akihabara area, there are vending machines selling oden in cans. Don't forget to try this iconic dish when visiting Japan!

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Miso Soup

Miso soup is a famous Japanese dish, praised for its delicious taste and great health benefits. Often drink with other side and main dishes. In the traditional Japanese diet, every day usually consists of drinking miso soup.

Miso soup is made simply, with a little fermented miso, which has a rich taste, added to Japanese dashi (usually a mixture of tuna and seaweed). There are hundreds of different types of miso soup by region, from simple soups with seaweed and tofu, to those with shrimp and crab and many other vegetables.

Miso paste itself also comes in a variety of varieties, from the sweet-tasting white to the more concentrated red. This is a dish served at most Japanese restaurants from high-end to casual with many different prices. If you have the opportunity to visit Japan, do not forget to enjoy this special traditional miso soup.

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Sushi

Sushi is the most famous Japanese food worldwide. At many places, it is served in a variety of ways and prices, from kaiten-zushi (conveyor belt sushi), where customers can enjoy sushi at a reasonable price of around 100 yen per plate, to the age-old, luxurious traditional Edomae (Edo-style sushi), where you sit at a quiet bar to eat sushi while sushi is prepared directly before your eyes.

Typically, sushi is simply a plate of rice mixed with vinegar pressed with a piece of raw fish or seafood, called a neta, on top. Sushi is usually served with soy sauce and wasabi, but those who don't like wasabi can ask for "sabi-nuki" (meaning "no wasabi").

Sushi can be eaten with chopsticks or directly by hand. However, you should pay attention, when dipping sushi in soy sauce, you should flip it over and apply soy sauce on the neta, not on the rice. This is to prevent the rice from being sucked up too much soy sauce and losing the original flavor of the "neta".

Thus, the article has suggested to you the top 10 most famous traditional dishes in Japan. Hopefully, these will be valuable suggestions for readers who are passionate about food and culture in the land of the rising sun. Hope you enjoy the article and don't forget to leave yourself comments under the comment section.