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What are uni sea urchins and how do you eat them? What are "dancing shrimp"? What is the difference between tonkatsu and takoyaki ? Do you pick them up with your fingers? Which sauce to use? And just what is in that sauce? From world-famous sushi to fatally attractive fugu, it's all explained clearly and humorously in this sketchbook filled with charming full-color illustrations and insightful texts.

So don't be intimidated—dive in! You are bound to have endless food adventures in Japan. This book shows you how.

TUT TLE

An Explorer’s Guide to Japanese Food

TUT TLE

BETTY REYNOLDS left a career as a creative consultant and advertising art director to accompany her husband to Asia. They first moved to Singapore and then Tokyo where they lived for seven years. She now divides her time between Philadelphia, PA and Orcas Island, WA but her heart remains in Japan. Other Tuttle books by Betty Reynolds include: Clueless in Tokyo, Tokyo Friends and Japanese Celebrations.

For first-time visitors and seasoned gourmets alike, Japan Eats! is an entertaining guide to the pleasures and pitfalls of dining in Japan—with hilarious insights and tips not found in other books. Whether it's the proper technique for holding chopsticks or the etiquette of slurping soup, author Betty Reynolds reassures the bewildered and includes mini-lessons on how to read the curtains at the entrance, the menus on the wall, and even the signs on the bathroom doors! A

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An Explorer’s Guide to Japanese Food

Itedakimasu! 3

Irasshaimase! Welcome! 4

Signs of Importance 6

Required Finger Skills 10

Sashimi and Sushi 12

Soba & Udon 22

Ramen 24

Kare-raisu 26

Oden 27

Tempura 28

Sukiyaki 30

Shabu-Shabu 32

Okonomiyaki 33

Yakitori 34

Kushi-age 35

Nabe 36

Izakaya 38

Konbini 40

Tsukiji and Toyosu 42

Ikezukuri 44

Eki-ben 46

Ryokan Ryori 48

Sumo Supper 58

Hanami 60

Matsuri 62

Oshogatsu 64

Wagashi 66

Osembei 68

Go chiso sama deshita 70

Acknowledgment 71

Eating in Japan is an absolute delight and one of the pleasures of living or traveling there, but to the non-Japanese eating out can be a confusing experience. At least it was for me when my husband and I moved to Tokyo in 1994. At first we were inhibited by the language barrier, indecipherable signs and menus, plus our general lack of Japanese culture. But soon we realized that our forays out were always an adventure. We received some food we didn’t know we ordered and ate some things

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we never thought we would eat—but usually even the consequences of our mistakes were delicious.

In time, as we made Japanese friends we were introduced to unique experiences and incredibly delicious food. This sketchbook is a reflection of those many meals shared . I hope it will help people better appreciate Japanese cuisine, whether they are dining in Tokyo’s Ginza or a local Japanese restaurant anywhere in the world.

Goran kudasai! Please take a look

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やきそばパン からあげ

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What are uni sea urchins and how do you eat them? What are "dancing shrimp"? What is the difference between tonkatsu and takoyaki ? Do you pick them up with your fingers? Which sauce to use? And just what is in that sauce? From world-famous sushi to fatally attractive fugu, it's all explained clearly and humorously in this sketchbook filled with charming full-color illustrations and insightful texts.

So don't be intimidated—dive in! You are bound to have endless food adventures in Japan. This book shows you how.

TUT TLE

An Explorer’s Guide to Japanese Food

TUT TLE

BETTY REYNOLDS left a career as acreative consultant and advertising art director to accompany her husband to Asia. They first moved to Singapore and then Tokyo where they lived for seven years. She now divides her time between Philadelphia, PA and Orcas Island, WA but her heart remains in Japan. Other Tuttle books by Betty Reynolds include: Clueless in Tokyo, Tokyo Friends and Japanese Celebrations.

For first-time visitors and seasoned gourmets alike, Japan Eats! is an entertaining guide to the pleasures and pitfalls of dining in Japan—with hilarious insights and tips not found in other books. Whether it's the proper technique for holding chopsticks or the etiquette of slurping soup, author Betty Reynolds reassures the bewildered and includes mini-lessons on how to read the curtains at the entrance, the menus on the wall, and even the signs on the bathroom doors! A

n Explorer’s G

uide

to Japanese FoodJA

PAN

EA

TS!T

UT

TL

Ewww.tuttlepublishing.comPrinted in Hong Kong

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