Japan

My favorite food in Japan is either ramen or going to a good sukiya and getting a nice cheese gyudon, which is basically just rice with beef laid over the top of it and covered in cheese. It's way good, definitely recommend it.

So my favorite Japanese dishes are of course ramen with gyoza which are little dumplings. Miso ramen is super good. There's also tsukemen. It's similar to ramen except the noodles are not in the soup. You have to dip them into the soup yourself and so it's usually a different like a slightly sweeter soup which is super good. Sushi is also very good. My favorite was eel but there are so many different kinds of way good sushi. Tonkatsu is super good or curry rice. Tonkatsu is like a pork cut that's breaded and fried. They usually serve over rice with like the sweet sauce. Super good and then yeah curry. Japanese curry is awesome as well.

I really liked something called Inari Sushi, which was tofu. It was rice in a tofu pouch. It was awesome. I loved sushi. Just try everything because Japanese food is awesome.

There is so much good food in Japan and if you decide to eat out, like, there's so much selection but there are lots of things when you go shopping that you can make yourself that are Japanese. I suggest finding okonomiyaki. It's like a cabbage pancake. You can put whatever you want in it. Things like udon noodles and somen noodles. Somen noodles for summer are very good. The instructions are usually on the packets. Also, you can get little packet, like, mixes for, like, different dishes, like taco seasoning. You can get taco seasoning and, like, different packet mixes for sauces for different dishes. They're really good if you are not sure what to make in your apartments.

My favorite Japanese food is ramen, which has been talked about a lot in the videos already, but there's tons of different kinds of ramen, so I recommend trying all of the different flavors and then picking your favorite. Something else is okonomiyaki, which is basically like a cabbage pancake with meat on it, and it doesn't really sound good, but it's actually really delicious, so I definitely recommend trying that. My all-time favorite Japanese food is nabe, and basically what that is is it's like hot pot, so there's like a community pot in the middle of the table, and then basically there's like a flavored soup in it, and they put lots of different vegetables and meats in it, and it just kind of boils in there, and then you know, everyone sitting around the table will grab that and put it in their bowl and eat it, and it's just a really healthy food, and you're able to get lots of vegetables, and it tastes very delicious.

When you're walking through the streets of Japan, you're going to see a bunch of vending machines and in specific vending machines, it's really hard to tell which one will have it or not. There is a can of this juice from Minute Maid and it's amazing. It's a white grape juice with little bits of aloe jelly in it. It is so good. Every time we could drive by or I guess ride our bikes by a vending machine, we would look and see if it had it or not. Within three weeks, I think, we emptied out three different vending machines completely out of that one drink because it's so good. So make sure you look out for it.

Actually, my favorite food there is sushi.

One of my favorite, favorite, favorite foods that I ever ate in Sapporo was a dish called sukiyaki. And basically what you do with sukiyaki is you have this like a grill or a pan or something where you fry a lot of meat and vegetables. And when whatever it is is cooked, then you take it off the pan and put it in a bowl of raw egg. And then take it out of that bowl and put it in your rice and eat it with the rice. And it's really good because the raw egg, you're going to have to get used to eating raw egg because, you know, if you give it a chance, it tastes really good. But the raw egg would also cook a little bit on what you had just fried. And so you get this wonderful mixture of food in your mouth and it's just delicious.

I love Japanese foods. Just like everything, tonkatsu is my favorite. Sushi, I love sushi too. At first, I wasn't the biggest fan of sushi, but after a while, it's like quality, fresh sushi. You learn to love it a lot, and I still love it to this day. Ramen, just everything. I love Japanese food. You'll love it.

It's chicken with this really good sauce. Eat it.

I'm not even a foodie and I loved the food in Japan. Everything was so great, so fresh. There's a lot of like ramen and sushi, that's great. My personal favorite was okonomiyaki, which is basically cabbage pancake. It is really good, would recommend. I know it sounds weird, there's a lot of stuff that it seems like it wouldn't be good, like octopus tentacles, just like hanging out at festivals. You'll see like other things and like raw fish on sushi, like that seems weird, but new things are healthy and fun, so give it a try and you'll like a lot of it, I think.

Some of my favorite foods from Japan that I still cook are Mabu Tofu and curry rice. And I've made a couple changes to them, but they still remain some of my favorites whenever I go somewhere and I actually have a good bowl of curry rice. It just brings back tons of memories.

In Nagoya, in Aichi, which is the area, the prefecture where Nagoya is in, their specialty is red miso. So normally you get white miso, red miso they have, it's their specialty. You can get miso katsu, it's very good, miso ramen. There's lots of places in and near Nagoya and in Aichi which have their special red miso. And if you happen to be in Okazaki, there is a miso factory that you can go and visit if you want to as well. But their miso is very, very good. Just don't eat too much because it's a bit fattening as well.

Ramen, I think is like my top favorite. It's not like, it's so good. And depending on what area you serve in, there's actually famous ramen restaurants. So, ask the members in your water branch where the best ramen is. Somen is also really good. It's another noodle. I personally really loved bread. They have little bakeries. They call them a panya. And you can go to a panya and you can get such yummy bread. My favorite was the curry pan. So, it was this fried roll with curry in the middle of it and it was super yummy. So, Japan has so much good food. Just experience it for all you can and you're going to love it. So, I feel a huge misconception of Japan is that they just eat raw fish all the time or fish for every meal and that's not the case. Fish is a part of their diet, but it's not like in every food thing.

You can kind of find it everywhere, but I really love tonkatsu. It's like a pork cutlet. And if you get a katsudon, it's a pork cutlet, but they put it on rice and you get like, it fries it with egg and stuff. It's super good. Sushi is always really good. You can get dollar sushi on conveyor belts or you could go to yakiniku, but that's more expensive. And that's like fried meat. It's super good. You can actually eat lots of food out of the convenience stores, the konbini, which is surprising, but it's actually super safe. They're really good. Good luck. Have fun finding food.

Fukuoka is known for their Hakata ramen and so I would eat that every week almost when I was in Fukuoka and you could get a bowl of ramen for about 300 400 yen and it'd fill you up and so that was that's awesome

One of my favorite foods is Zunda. It is the best thing ever. Like, find anything flavored with it. Like, you can find Zunda shakes, Zunda, like, melonpan, Zunda dorayaki. Like, and Zunda is just basically, um, the, like, mashed up edamame that's sweetened, and it's so good.

Japan in general, I think you're just going to be wowed by the food. Definitely don't go in with the expectation that it's just going to be Japanese food that exists there or it's going to be good. The Japanese take a ton of pride in their cuisine and their ability to make good food and whether it be Italian that you eat in Japan or Chinese or, you know, American food, I think you're going to enjoy the food a ton. Take advantage of what's plentiful there though, seafood is something if you like it or if you could learn to like it, you're going to love it there. And I think just affordability wise too, you want to go with, see if you could go with what is plentiful in that region and seafood will be one thing I definitely recommend taking up if you haven't yet.

You can't understand true sushi until you go to Japan, I guess. I don't know. It was super good. Also, ramen. If you've heard of ramen, it's not top ramen. Much better. Ramen is really, really good. I also love, I just love the noodles there are super good. I love udon. It's like kind of thicker rice noodles. And there's really good restaurants that they have where they'll give you a super good udon. Be excited for the food. It is super, super good. Some of the best food I've ever had in my life was in Japan. You'll love it quick. Definitely some seafood, but also eat lots of chicken and other meats. Honestly, they eat really a broad variety of things. You'll you'll find stuff you love.

So Japanese bakeries are awesome. There are so many different kinds of breads that are just so good. So there's melonpan, or meronpan is what it's called, but it's this sweet bread with like a like a sugary coating on top. Super good. Or they've got a bunch of different kinds of cream-filled breads that are way good. Anpan is super good. That's this, it's a bread with a sweet bean filling in it. I don't know, some foreigners don't like it as much, but it's really good. It grows on you. They also have these kinds of pastries that street vendors sell that are their batter filled with like custard or other kinds of cream, even anko, which is the red bean paste. Those are super good. They're called like imagawayaki, or there are a few different kinds.

So many good foods in Japan. Sushi is excellent. They've got these great restaurants where you can go and pick a plate and it has a slice of sushi on it and they're color-coded and so each plate has a color and it's priced according to the color of the plate. So by the end of your meal you have your plates stacked up. Red ones might be 50 cents, blue ones a dollar, green ones two dollars and that's how they add up how much you owe to pay for your sushi.

So my favorite foods would have to be chicken katsu, okonomiyaki, and like karaage, like, and just any kind of yakiniku restaurant. And you probably have never heard of any of those, but basically katsu is chicken or pork served over rice, kind of lightly battered. That's so good. That's my favorite. And then okonomiyaki is kind of like this savory pancake that's got all this cool seasoning and just anything you want on it. I'm not much of a seafood person, right? So like, people think that when you go to Japan, it's all seafood, but no, there's a whole bunch of other stuff. Yakiniku is just, you go and have meat and wagyu beef and stuff like that. So yeah, lots of great food there. You're gonna love it.

I like the ramen that we would eat. We would make curry by the potful. I also liked yakisoba and yakitori and then we'd also have shabu-shabu which was, I really liked that. Yakisoba, a lot of yakis. I don't even remember what all that stuff is but mostly noodles. Lots of rice. Ate rice all the time. Good stuff.

I would say my favorite is it's called tonkatsu, which is a pork cutlet. I don't know the translations here. Takoyaki and okonomiyaki. Takoyaki and okonomiyaki. Those are great. Also like you're going to have udon and the ramen is it's not top ramen, let me tell you. Go to the actual restaurants, find out where it's good and go. But really just try a bunch of stuff because there's some fantastic freaking stuff out there. So go and try a lot of stuff. Please. Thanks.

Japan has some really good food. If you can, just try and find a good Indian food place as well.

If you're ever in Asaigawa, check out the ramen restaurants. Asaigawa is famous for its ramen. Now this isn't like any kind of ramen you get here in the states. It's definitely not like top ramen. There was one restaurant I went to and they had presence of all these celebrities, even the prime minister and government officials coming to this little hole-in-the-wall restaurant to eat the ramen because it was so good. They take so much time in how they prepare it, how they prepare the broth, how they prepare the ingredients, how they all put it together for presentation. It's amazing and you will never be satisfied with this ramen here in the states ever again. It will just never match up. So definitely check out the ramen if you're in Asaigawa.

One of my favorite foods was introduced to me when I was in Fukuoka. It was winter, it was cold, and I was walking through the streets, and my companion pulled me into an alleyway, and there was a man making ramen in just a little shack, and just a little bit of a roof hanging over, and with a curb-type table set at a bench, and I ate Hakata ramen. And my companion showed me how break open a raw egg and dump it in, and it was my first bowl of real ramen, and it was the best. I still remember it and think, ah, I want to go back. Hakata ramen. It's really good in my book.

Favorite foods of Japan do include sushi, but there's also a lot of foods that you can make with chicken, pork, and beef. And maba-dofu with tofu. Maba-dofu is actually Chinese, but it's one of my favorites. Tonkatsu, pork cutlet, is another one that is really good. Of course, sukiyaki and teriyaki. You can have those with beef or chicken or even shrimp. Anything with rice or noodles or anything that you can stir together and fry. Yakisoba, fried noodles, excellent. There's all kinds of foods that you can try that are not fish-related if you're not big on fish. Gyoza, pot stickers, edamame, beans, soybeans, try those. And miso soup goes with everything.

If you're talking about Hokkaido, you gotta bring up ramen. In the cold weather, nothing warms you up like a big steaming bowl of ramen. There's miso ramen, soy sauce ramen, shio ramen, which is like a salty chicken stock. It's all delicious. Pork and kimchi stir-fry by itself or on top of rice gonna drive you crazy. Pot stickers, Chinese gyoza. They're wonderful, amazing. If you like seafood, the colder the water, the better the seafood. And Hokkaido is as far north as you can get. My hometown is the number one crab fishing port in all of Japan. Seafood is delicious and cheap. Learn to love it. Try everything.

The food in Japan is amazing. It is great and that's one of the best parts about Japan. There's so many delicious restaurants. So some of the best foods are sushi, Japanese curry, stir fries, fried rice, tonkotsu, all this stuff. It's so good. So they have these restaurants where there's like a sushi merry-go-round and you take a plate and you just take whatever you want and at the end they use a ruler and measure your food to see how much food you ate. And yeah, it's so good. So that's how they know how to charge you. But like honestly, oh the convenience stores have such good little bentos, like these little meals too.

The ramen is amazing. I loved it. The noodles were so good. Abura soba. You definitely got to go get the sushi. It's nothing like, it's so much better than here. And the food overall is just so amazing. It's not super spicy. In Japan, it's really mild. It's a lot easier to get used to kind of like a Western type food feel. So it was really easy coming from America going there, and it was just so amazing.

If you like American ramen, you will love Japanese ramen. Two, there's this thing called okonomiyaki. There's two different styles. One of them is called Hiroshima-fu okonomiyaki. And it's basically like an omelette they have for dinner. They have noodles and cabbages and different vegetables, fish, shrimp, different meat. And they'll mix it all up in this batter. And they'll cook it in front of you if you go to restaurants. And you put the sauce on it and it's super good. And then probably my last favorite thing to go to just around town is if you have a chance to go to a bakery, if there's a bakery around town, go check that out. They have delicious breads filled with different creams and chocolate and filling and stuff. It's amazing.

You're going to a place of quality meat and quality fruit and everything's fresh and delicious. Everything you eat is just going to be presented well and with great quality, so you can really enjoy it. Eat tonkatsu, fried pork cutlet. It's so good. The quality will just blow your mind, especially if you come back to the U.S. and try to eat it here. It's just night and day, the quality of the meat and food over there.

I love sushi, that is my favorite. However, in Ogaki-shi, so that would be Gifu-ken, Ogaki-shi, they're famous for having high quality water. And Mie-ken, Ise-shi, so the city of Ise, is very famous for its udon, which are like some thick fat ramen kind of like noodles, super yummy. My favorite though, Matsuzaka beef. So Matsuzaka is also in Mie-ken next to Ise, the city of Ise, and the Matsuzaka beef is comparable to the Kobe beef in that they feed the cows beer, they massage them, so the kind of steak that you're going to get in Matsuzaka is amazing, so delicious, and great with rice, whatever you're eating, so yummy.