{"id":1211,"date":"2011-03-28T14:12:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidejapanblog.com\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:26:08","slug":"japanish-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/28\/japanish-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanish Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Like this post? 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Nobody has given me a list, and\u00a0I know there`s far more to it than just soba noodles and sushi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last\u00a0week, wandering\u00a0around tourist-free Tokyo, I tried a couple of dishes that are\u00a0not\u00a0traditional Japanese, but they are unique to Japan.\u00a0I have called them Japanish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My first Japanish dish was\u00a0in\u00a0Asakusa at Yoshikami Yoshokudo. Yoshokudo means western diner, but\u00a0the name is just\u00a0a cunning disguise. The chefs and patrons are all Japanese, as are their main dishes &#8211; like\u00a0<em>omuraisu<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Omuraisu<\/em> was first served in Osaka\u00a0in the 1920s. Now you can\u00a0get it anywhere in Japan. It\u00a0consists of\u00a0sticky rice, mixed with fried pork, wrapped in a\u00a0fried egg and hosed\u00a0with\u00a0tomato ketchup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It`s kids food in adult portions. Eating it, I felt nine years old, but the sweet tomato ketchup was worth all the shame.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A couple of days later, near Shinjuku,\u00a0I\u00a0went to a restaurant\u00a0for some French curry. French curry sounds like a dreadful idea,\u00a0as appealing as English sushi, but the small counter-seating only restaurant is always full.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The enthusiastic\u00a0head chef\u00a0told me he had studied French cuisine for several years.\u00a0Adding red wine to curry sauce seemed to be his specialisation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The meal\u00a0came as\u00a0a pleasant surprise.\u00a0Smooth sweet and satisfying, it was the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">only<\/span> best French curry I have ever had.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5066766871_5725d8717e1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1214\" title=\"5066766871_5725d8717e[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5066766871_5725d8717e1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">French Curry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Japanish food does stretch credibility at\u00a0times. You sometimes wonder if they are jokes, like the pineapple chunk sandwiches, horseradish flavoured Kit-Kats and ice burger buns on sale at <em>conbini<\/em> stores. I don`t recommend\u00a0all of those,\u00a0not in one sitting anyway, but\u00a0trust me, Japanish food is\u00a0here to stay.<\/p>\n<h4>Like this post? 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Help us by sharing it! I`m pretty sure I like Japanese food, I`m just not really certain what it is. Nobody has given me a list, and\u00a0I know there`s far more to it than just soba noodles and sushi. Last\u00a0week, wandering\u00a0around tourist-free Tokyo, I tried a couple of dishes that are\u00a0not\u00a0traditional Japanese, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2366],"tags":[1310,1529,1644,1730,1756,1967,2120,2154,2195,2346,2534],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-food-and-drink","tag-asakusa","tag-french-curry","tag-ice-burger","tag-japanese-food","tag-japanish","tag-omuraisu","tag-soba-noodles","tag-sushi","tag-tokyo","tag-yoshoku","tag-tom-orsman"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9183,"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/9183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}