Food

Sake is probably the best know of all Japanese beverages. It is an alcoholic brewed drink which is produced from rice.

Beer or as it is pronounced BI-RU is Japan’s most popular alcoholic beverage. It can be drank just about everywhere, and in fact, it can…

Probably the best known of the Japanese foods to westerners are Sushi and Sashimi. Over recent years, these dishes have become popular, if not fashionable…

Tachinomi is the name given to bars that have no seating, referred to in English as standing only bars, these bars are popular with Japanese…

Ramen is the Japanese name for the popular noodle soup dish that is much like instant noodles. In fact, instant noodles actually evolved from the…

An izakaya is the traditional Japanese bar that are popular with Japanese businessmen for an after work drink, in recent years these bars have also…

Gyudon is fast food Japanese style, translated gyudon means cow bowl, and that’s sort of what gyudon is, strips of beef served in a bowl….

It is estimated there is a vending machine of some variety for every 20 people in Japan. With Japan’s population in excess of 127 million…

Yakitori is one of the tastiest and cheapest meals in Japan, it is succulent pieces of chicken meat served on bamboo skewers, marinated in BBQ…