Japanese Guide For Tarsiers

Plums are fruits popular in Japan. However, we eat it as pickles instead of dessert.

“Umeboshi（梅干し）” is a salted plum. It is popular as a ingredient of onigiri, because it is matches with rice well.

We often put it in lunch boxes to eat later, because Umeboshi also has a bactericidal effect.

Japanese restaurants have a menu of style called “Teishoku（定食）”. This is the main dish with rice, miso soup, vegetables set. You can take protein, lipid, carbohydrate, dietary fiber at once.

Nori is often used for Japanese food. For example, it is used for Onigiri, rolled sushi, Gunkanmaki of sushi and so on.  Nori is made by stretching the seaweed into a paper and then drying it.

In addition, many Westerners do not have enzymes that digest seaweed. So they eat it but they are discharged without being digested.

I heard that many foreigners think that Japanese people eat sushi every day. However, many Japanese do not eat sushi frequently. Because it is expensive to eat at sushi restaurant. ut at supermarkets and convenience stores we can buy cooked sushi at reasonable prices.

By the way, before modern day, sushi was a little kind of ingredients, and it was a fast food to eat on a stall.

In Japan, Gyoza（餃子） are often eaten. It is wrapping minced meat and vegetables with the skin of wheat. Although it was originally Chinese food, but it also penetrated Japan.

In China, boiled gyoza are common, but in Japan the baked gyoza are preferred. It is common to eat with sauce that mixed soy sauce, vinegar and chili Oil.

Also, I heard that Chinese gyoza do not contain garlic, but in Japan there are many gyoza including garlic.