Another Cool Fact

Some farmers grow SQUARE watermelons! That's crazy!

Whoa!

Wanna know something cool and very expensive? Musk melon can sell for 31,473 yen. That's 300 American dollars!

New Years Meals

Its New Years! Here they're eating osechi-ryori. Colorful foods are put in boxes called jubako. The colors of the foods symbolize different things. Yellow foods like kazunoko represent prosperity. The beans represent health and the pink and white foods like kamaboko represent celebration colors

Food Habits

It' hard to think that meat was banned at a time in Japan. In 700 AD meat was banned due to the rise of Buddhism. To get protein they ate fish which started sushi.

Foods America Tried

Many foods eaten in Japan aren't usually eaten in America. Some simple ones are though. Like yakisoba and sushi. I know a lot of my friends eat sushi. And my mom loves yakisoba

Typical Meals.

Some foods we see a lot are Onigiri, Sushi, Yakisoba, Yakitori, and Yakizakana.

• Onigiri is rice wrapped seaweed with an additional food in the middle.
• Sushi is rice prepared in sushi vinegar
• Yakisoba is deep fried noodles with additional vegetables and meat
• Yakitori is grilled chicken on skewers like shishkabobs
• Yakizakana is grilled fish

What time is dinner?

The meal schedule in Japan is pretty much the same as it is in America. They do eat dinner a little later though. Breakfast is around 8 or 9 am. They eat lunch around 12 and then dinner is eaten around 7 or 8.

Seasonings

Flavaaaaas

In my food I tasted a lot of different seasonings. In my yakisoba the little orange pieces were called Beni-Shouga. This is a pickled ginger used to flavor stuff. Lechante ordered the Okayu and it was flavored with shouga which is a root ginger.

Common Cooking Methods

In the restaurant we went to today some common cooking methods were noticed. 

• Tempura- coating clean meat with batter
• Sauce is made from trimmings or entrails
• Sashimi- preparing thinly sliced rawfish
• Fugu Sashimi- The difficult preparation of raw blowish
• Sukiyaki- food cooked infront of guests on a hibachi grill
• 3 Main Methods of steaming food
• ingredients are steamed in individual bowls called dobins
• foods are steamed in an unglazed dish called a horoku
• foods are steamed in one large platter

Geography&Climate

Right now we are in Japan. Japan is off the east coast of Asia. It's kinda cold but not as cold as Georgia. There's a lot of rainfall but it's enjoyable.