100 Japanese Foods to Try
From Just Hungry
A List of 100 Japanese Foods To Try At Least Once
- Properly washed and cooked, top quality new harvest white rice (shinmai)
- Freshly made tofu, as hiyayakko or yudofu
- Properly made misoshiru and osumashi
- Properly made homemade nukazuke
- Very fresh sanma (saury), sizzling hot from the grill, eaten with a drizzle of soy sauce and a mound of grated daikon radish
- Homemade umeboshi
- Freshly made, piping hot crispy tempura. I prefer vegetable tempura like shiso leaves, eggplant and sweet potato.
- A whole grilled wild matsutake
- Freshly made sobagaki with sobayu
- Mentaiko from Fukuoka, or tarako
- Onigiri with the three classic fillings: umeboshi, okaka, shiozaki
- Assorted fresh-as-possible sashimi
- Saba oshizushi
- Mugicha
- Kakifurai
- Morinaga High-Chew candy, grape flavor
- Karasumi
- A pot of oden, preferably with homemade components especially ganmodoki, boiled eggs and daikon radish
- Ika no shiokara
- Calpis
- Ankou nabe
- Unadon
- Komochi kombu or kazunoko
- Yamakake, grated yamaimo with maguro (red tuna) cubes (or just with a raw egg)
- Properly made gyokuro shincha
- Milky Candy
- Wanko soba
- Omuraisu with demi-glace sauce
- Handmade katayaki senbei
- Yohkan (yokan) from Toraya
- Ishi yakiimo - sweet potatoes cooked in hot stones, available from street vendor carts
- Natto
- Fresh seaweed sunomono (can also have some tako in it)
- Ikura or sujiko
- Tonkatsu
- Goma dofu
- Chawan mushi or tamago dofu - the same dish either piping hot or ice cold
- Freshly made mochi, with kinako and sugar, grated daikon and soy sauce or natto
- Gindara no kasuzuke
- Hoshigaki
- Inarizushi
- Chikuzen-ni
- Surume
- Yakinasu with grated ginger
- Tamago kake gohan
- Kabuki-age
- Nikujaga
- Spinach gomaae
- Fuki no tou
- Okonomiyaki
- Yakitori
- Ohagi
- Japanese style curry, with rakkyo and fukujinzuke as condiments
- Kenchinjiru
- Yakult
- Kakipea
- Takoyaki
- Sakura mochi
- Buta no kakuni
- Daigaku imo
- Kappa Ebisen
- Chicken tsukune
- Hakusaizuke
- Hayashi rice
- Goya champuruu
- Dorayaki
- Ochazuke
- Sakuma Drops
- Stewed kiriboshi daikon
- Takenoko gohan (or in fall, kuri gohan)
- Cream or potato korokke
- Fresh yuba
- Real ramen
- Monaka
- Ekiben of all kinds
- Edamame
- Chicken karaage
- Kuzumochi
- Mitarashi dango
- Konnyaku no dengaku
- Yukimi Daifuku
- Sukiyaki
- Nama yatsuhashi
- Panfried hanpen
- Nozawanazuke or Takanazuke
- Kiritanpo
- Amanatto
- Narazuke
- Aji no himono
- Baby Ramen
- Kobucha
- Kasutera
- Tazukuri
- Karintou
- Sauce Yakisoba
- Kamaboko
- Oyako donburi
- Atsuyaki tamago
- Kuri kinton
- Japanese potato salad
