日本料理 に・ほん・りょう・り
Japanese Food you commonly see in
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Names of Food |
Description |
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朝ご飯（あさ・ご・はん）／ 朝食（ちょう・しょく） |
Japanese
traditionally eat rice, miso soup, and pickles
with, commonly, nori (sheet of dried sea weed), egg
(sometimes raw), fish, nattoo (fermented soy beans), or some vegetables.
Nowadays, toast and cereals are replacing the above food. “Morning Service” at a coffee shop means
“thick toast and coffee.” |
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味噌汁（み・そ・しる） |
Soybean paste soup,
usually “tofu” and seaweed in it. |
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納豆（なっ・とう） |
Fermented soy beans. |
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漬物（つけ・もの） |
Pickled vegetables
in salt or “Nuka (rice bran, salt, rice malt and
red pepper, etc.).” |
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梅干し（うめ・ぼ・し） |
Salted plums colored
red by “Aka jiso (red perilla herb leaves).” |
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昼ご飯（ひる・ご・はん）／ 昼食（ちゅう・しょく） |
Lunch is faithfully
eaten between 12:00 and 1:00. Busy
business people may finish a lunch at noodle shops at the train
stations. There are a lot of fast
food, American and Japanese around town.
Coffee shops are another good spot for lunch and breakfast. |
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晩御飯（ばん・ご・はん）／ 夕食（ゆう・しょく） |
Supper. Japanese try
to eat a lot of different kinds of food served in small portions. Kaiseki Ryoori is a traditional Japanese course dinner with
beautiful presentations according to seasons. |
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お弁当（お・べん・とう） |
Box contains various
kinds of food for lunch. It usually
has steamed rice, pickles, some vegetable with fish or neat as entrée. |
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おにぎり |
Rice balls sometimes
wrapped with “Nori (dried seaweed).” |
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焼き魚（や・き・ざかな） |
Grilled fish. It sometimes
comes with the head on. |
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天婦羅（てん・ぷ・ら） |
Deep-fried battered
seafood and vegetables. |
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寿司（す・し） |
Vinegary seasoned
rice with something (vegetables, raw or grilled fish, pickles, etc.). |
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刺し身（さ・し・み） |
Raw fish dishes. |
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すき焼き（すき・や・き） |
Sliced beef and
vegetables sautéed in sweet soy sauce. |
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うどん |
Thick white noodle
in “dashi (broth)” soup. Dashi
soup is made from dried bonito flakes, seaweed and soy sauce. |
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そば |
Buck wheat noodles (cold) with a dipping source or in hot soup. |
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焼き鳥（や・き・とり） |
Grilled chicken with
teriyaki sauce. |
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とんかつ |
Deep-fried battered
sliced pork. Pork cutlet. |
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定食（てい・しょく） |
A set menu/combo.
Usually some main dish with rice, miso soup and
pickles. |
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お好み焼き （お・この・み・や・き） |
A type of pancake
whose name literally means “cooked or grilled as you like.” You choose the ingredients from the menu
and cook the pancakes themselves on a hot plate in the center of table. Ingredients are usually
shredded cabbage, egg, flour, thinly sliced meat, seafood or vegetables, etc.
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おでん |
Oden consists of variety of ingredients
(vegetable and seafood) simmered for many hours in soy sauce based kelp
stock. |
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しゃぶしゃぶ |
Thinly sliced beef (about
1mm thick) and vegetables dipped in boiling stock and dip in special sauces. |
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親子丼（おや・こ・どん） |
Oyako-don means “parent and child.” “Don” comes from “donburi”
which is a kind of a deep china bowl.
The “parent” is chicken and the “child” is egg. This dish is prepared as simmering chicken
in sweet soy sauce based dashi sauce, adding a
beaten egg and cooking until the egg sets.
And pour it onto rice in a china cowl (donburi). |
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カツ丼（かつ・どん） |
Boil “tonkatsu” in sweet soy sauce based dashi
sauce, adding a beaten egg and cooking until the egg sets. And pour it onto rice in a china cowl (donburi). |
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牛丼（ぎゅう・どん） |
“Gyuu”
means beef, “don” comes from “donburi” which is a
kind of a deep china bowl. Boil thinly
sliced beef and onion in soy sauce base soup and pour them onto rice in a Donburi. |
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うな重（うな・じゅう） |
“Una”
comes from “unagi (eel)”, “juu”
comes from “juubako” which is a tier of lacquered
boxes. Put broiled eel with kind of teriyaki
sauce on top of rice. |
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カレーライス （かれーらいす） |
Boil meat (beef,
pork or chicken) and vegetables in curry sauce. Pour it onto rice. |
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オムライス（おむらいす） |
Fried rice with some
meat and onion, flavored with ketchup, wrapped by omelet. |
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卵焼き（たまご・やき） |
Egg omelet in
rectangular shape. |
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お茶漬け （お・ちゃ・づ・け） |
Rice and pickles in
Japanese green tea. |
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わさび |
Horseradish. |
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しょうゆ |
Soy sauce. |
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和菓子（わ・が・し） |
Japanese traditional
sweets made with sugar and rice flour, etc.
. They are very colorful and formed into various shapes and
items. They are often used in tea
ceremony. |
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お饅頭 （ お・まん・じゅう） |
Bun stuffed with
sweetened bean paste |
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yookan 羊羹（よう・かん） |
Japanese bean jelly |
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あずき |
Sweetened red beans. |
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抹茶（まっ・ちゃ） |
Green tea (flavor) |
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日本料理 （にほんりょうり）
1. Breakfast and Lunch in Daily Life
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