What kind of japanese food are there?

I want to learn how to make Japanese food , breakfast , lunch , and dinner. What are some easy food to cook or traditional japanese food people usually eat? I already know how to cook tariyaki , its delicious!





What's your favorite Japanese food?|||There are quite a few Japanese foods to try besides sushi.





Rice dishes - Donburi:


There are many rice dishes available. The most well known one is probably teriyaki chicken/beef rice bowl. Next up is gyudon (Beef bowl at Yoshinoya), which is kind of self-explanatory. Omurice gained more recognition in recent years; its a fun rice dish to try. Katsu-don (deep fried pork chop) is also quite popular. One not so well know dish, hayashi-raisu (rice), is also worth trying.





Meat dishes:


Yakiniku, Japanese BBQ, is definitely worth a try. BBQ skewered meats like yakitori and beef rolls make nice appetizers and they go well with beer. Karaage (somewhat similar to popcorn chicken) is well accepted by most. Dishes like teriyaki beef, teriyaki chicken and tonkatsu (deep fried pork chop) are all very common.





Tempura:


Tempura is popular among many people. It is easy to make but it isn't that easy to master though.





Noodle dishes:


Ramen gained a lot of popularity in recent years. There are many variety of ramen available and many of them are really nice. Before ramen became popular, udon and soba were quite popular. Like ramen, there's a good variety of udon and soba to try.





Above are just some popular "safe" dishes that doesn't contain any uncooked seafoods/meats. Ingredients for noodle dishes and unagi-don might be a little hard to come by. But, I don't think you'll have problem making other dishes.





By the way, natto was mentioned in a couple of the answers. That thing is not a very friendly item. It smelled quite potent and a good number of native Japanese find it very offensive. :)





@John D: Why must you give everyone a thumbs down for every single question you answered? Are our questions really that bad? :)|||I think (I'm Japanese, by the way) that people in Japan eat:





For breakfast, 50% eat toast, egg, bacon stuff; other 50% eat rice with pickles, nori (dried sea weed) or umeboshi (plum pickle), miso soup, poached turnip and stuff in stock.





For lunch, rice (probably with pickles), miso soup, grilled fish or deep fried meat or stir fry, and one or two more small dishes with soy sauce, like tofu, spinach with bonito flakes. Or a quick lunch can be done with noodle (udon, soba, ramen) or donburi; these are considered as fast food.





Dinner is the heaviest, rice (probably with pickles), miso soup, small dishes just like what we eat for lunch. Main dish can be sashimi, grilled fish, steak, teriyaki, nikujaga (which is a braised beef with potatoes and carrots in a stock), stir fry or something else. Teriyaki, by the way, in Japan is meat or fish "glazed" with soy sauce:sake:sugar=1:1:1 (?, I think this is the basic combination).





I only mentioned Japanese food that Japanese eat. We eat western or westernized Japanese food too, so the possibility is endless. Even junk food (I do not mean that it is western, just simply junk food) for lunch is still there especially among high school students, I guess.





Some like to cook more elaborate food for dinner like myself. But it is only because some LOVE cooking and eating. It is not ordinary.





Sadly, most people do not prepare their dashi (stock) any more. It is a huge blow to the Japanese food culture, but well I suppose it is the case in other countries too... Using stock cubes instead of preparing one's stock... :( I use stock cubes only when I make fast food. (Fast food can be healthy!)





Oh, we do not make sushi for ourselves because sushi making is considered experts' work, and people are intimidated. But we do make temaki-zushi for dinner. I love to have temaki-zushi parties. This is my own idea I came up with when I was in college. :) I'm not the first one who did that though..





Personally, I do not make sushi myself not because I'm intimidated by the expertise people think one should have to pull off sushi, but because I cannot find a really really good quality fish that deserves to be served as sushi. You see, if you only have mediocre fish, you rather cook it than eating it raw.





I said rice and miso soup for every dish, but while rice is imperative, miso soup can be omitted. Also miso soup just means a soup based on miso. It is like saying chicken stock soup. Consomme, pumpkin potage, sapa de ajo can all be based on chicken stock. Speaking of miso-based soup, I need to mention buta-jiru (or ton-jiru). It is a soup based on miso with pork in it. Particularly nice in winter.





Happy cooking!|||Among many others Japanese food can offer you, I recommend you to try nukazuke (made by fermenting vegetables in rice bran (nuka).


It can be made very quick and easy once you get the hang of making various kind of pickles in nuka(rice bran). It is considered the taste of grand mams.


For the details of nukazuke, please refer to the link below;


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukazuke|||Have you lost your mind?! Sushie is the bomb especially with some wosobi. As for Japanese food there is Natto which is basically fermented soy beans. Then there is also Matoudai,kamaboko,and Shinodamaki. Those are some that i can think of try some out they are suprisingly good. also you should try the octopus,|||I love Japanese food and cook it daily. My favourite dishes to cook include teriyaki chicken, karaage (fried chicken), tempura, miso soup and nikujyaga (Japanese meat %26amp; potatoes). See the link below for the easy to cook recipes.|||There are so many foods, its hard to name them all. Here are a few that are common:





BREAKFAST


Miso Soup with tofu


Tamagoyaki (rolled omelette)


Grilled fish


Natto (buy made, no work needed)


Tsukemono (pickled cucmbers)


Rice





LUNCH/DINNER


Edamane


Soba Noodles


Udon


Ramen


Yakisoba


Curry Rice


Grilled fish


Teriyaki - chicken or fish


Tempura


Shabu Shabu


Sukiyaki


Batayaki


Teppanyaki


Rice





My favorite for breakfast is miso soup, tamagoyaki, tsukemono and rice.


I cant decide which ones are my favorite lunch/dinner favorites!





Here is a website that you can find some of these recipes which are close to authentic:





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