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ing too intimate. The culture doesn't lend itself to having dinner
parties. Instead, a dense variety of restaurants serve as venues for
nightly meals and socializing.
here, but it may seem to you that the average meal in Japan is well
prepared and likely tasty. Some visitors find the food bland and don't
care for the Japanese emphasis on texture and presentation. Either
way, Japanese food is made with care - these folks seem to obsess
over their edibles. If there are eight channels on a Japanese TV, at
least two of them are playing a food or cooking show. Many prime
time shows feature food competitions, restaurant visits and celebri-
ties pronouncing different dishes oishii! - delicious!
Food" - there's a lot of different ingredients, spices and flavours
available. Pay particular attention to the texture of a food, if it has no
taste or some bad taste, maybe people eat it for the feeling they get
in their mouth or between their teeth.
ocean surrounding them, and an abiding fondness for pickled and
bitter flavours. But over the years the Japanese have adopted many
external cuisines and made them their own. If you leave yourself
open to eating in Japan, you can find a wide range of fish and fowl,
mammals and plantmatter to chew on. If you must eat cuisine like
you have at home, be prepared for something just slightly different.
Learn to love it, imagine someone put time into making it different.
Whatever they're doing with food in Japan they're doing one thing
right; these people live the longest of any in the world.
convenient. Foreign folks too tired to decode a Japanese menu can
find their next meal in plastic models outside in the window. It's just
fine to ask the waitperson to accompany you outside the restaurant
so you can point at the particular polyurethane curry that looks just