Amazing Japanese Food

Have you ever missed the foods from your countries when you visited overseas?
As I lived abroad, I realized how great Japanese foods are, so I missed them so much.

Japanese cuisine has everything from great tastes, benefits for health, and
to fancy appearance. More over some traditional foods have been passed on
for a long time so they have special meanings that we’re supposed to eat them
in certain seasons, on special events and/or with purposes.
For example, we eat Mochi(soft and stick rice cake) during new years in Japan,
and we eat it wishing for long and healthy life.

There are many articles in the world which are written about how delicious and/or
healthy Japanese foods are.

Japanese food has become very popular around the world and there are many
restaurants opened up more and more.
In 2013, with the cooperation of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diplomatic Missions,
“Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF)” conducted a research
on numbers of Japanese restaurants in foreign countries.
2006 -24,000 restaurants
2010 -30,000 restaurants
2013 -55,000 restaurants

Moreover, Japanese food was selected as No.1(83.3%) for everyone’s favorite
foreign food in the world in March, 2013.
(Researched by JETRO, Japan Extremal Trade Organization *multiple answers allowed
*food from one’s home country is not counted.)
We can see clearly that Japanese food has been very popular around the world.

I would like to share a video of “international ME”,
“Japanese Food / What To Eat in Japan (Lesser Known Must Try Japanese Food)”


There are so many Japanese dishes which I enjoy so much
but two of my favorite ones from the video are Sukiyaki and Stawberry Daifuku.
Which dishes do you like or would you like to try?


T.F