Food

  by  Ewan-M

  by  luckysundae

The Japanese word for meal is gohan.  Gohan actually means 'steamed rice' but the Japanese use it so much that it is part of almost every meal! Some of the foods they like to eat are sushi, which is raw fish rolled up in a seaweed wrap, sashimi, which is raw fish and vegetables, rice, okonomiyaki, which is a pancake filled with many different ingredients, (okonomi means as you like and yaki means fried so it makes as you like it fried) soba and udon noodles.  Japanese also like miso soup and they are very keen on deserts they call wagashi. They eat sweet pancakes a lot and they sometimes shape some of the icing into traditional Japanese characters.  Japanese children take things called bento boxes to school instead of lunchboxes. Their parents make their fruit and vegetables shaped like their childs favourite characters like Mario and Luigi.
Japanese bento boxes usually contain:  ongiri = rice balls, furikake = dried fish flakes, pickles, curry, sausages, tofu, dumplings, teriyaki, kebabs, sushi and bitesized vegetables and fruit.
Our lunchboxes contain: sandwiches, juice, crisps, fruit, vegetables, chocolate, cheese and salami.

As you can see, the Japanese diet is very different from the British diet and they tend to have a bigger variety than us. Bento boxes are set into different sections for different things usually they are fruit and vegetables, main food and dessert. There are some amazing recipes for Japanese food on http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/cook/index.html

  by  avlxyz 

In class, for our Japanese topic we were trying out different Japanese foods, like sushi, wasabi peas, dried cuttlefish and lots of traditional Japanese foods!
Once again our class topic expert, Fai, brought in sushi for us to try and occasionally different dips with mixed soya sauce that they would use in Japan. Our teacher also bought lots of Japanese foods from the different Chinese and Japanese Stores like China town. We loved the wide range of foods that we did manage to grab hold of. Altogether in class we thought that Japanese foods were lovely!
Sushi is raw fish surrounded by sticky rice and rolled in seaweed, or it can just be raw fish rapped in seaweed, so the main ingredients are raw fish and seaweed. Wasabi peas are dried peas with a range of different spices that when you suck feel so, so hot! Dried cuttlefish is just cuttlefish, but dried up. When you eat it it feels all twiggy, as if you’re eating bones, or sticks.