Food in Japan

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Food in Japan

One of my favourite things about living in Japan is the food. I just love Japanese food!

Sushi, Sashimi, Ramen, Donburi, Okonomiyaki, Nori……you name it I love it!!

Local supermarkets can be inexpensive if you know what to look for and stick to Japanese food. It is when you try to eat food that you would normally have at home that your grocery bill will go through the roof. If you try and eat “meat and three veg” every night you will be in for a big shock. That being said, part of the joy of living in a foreign country is experiencing these things that you would not normally get the chance to.

Buying local seasonal vegetables, rice, and soya bean products and learning to cook with them will save you a lot of money while in Japan. Also, if you visit your local supermarket just before closing in the evenings you will often find perishable items largely discounted.

Eating out can be very expensive or very inexpensive depending on where you go. There are plenty of great noodle restaurants where you can have a full meal for between 500 and 1000 yen. Noodle (ramen, soba and udon) stores can be found on what seems like every corner and in every train station and are a quick and easy way to satisfy ones hunger. As long as you are not opposed to standing and eating at the same time.

A more average priced meal at a restaurant is roughly between 1000 and 3000 yen, while there is no upper price limit when it comes to high-class restaurants such as ryotei. One thing that always amazed me when eating out in Japan was that all the menus had pictures, great for us foreigners who would not know what they were ordering otherwise and also that plastic food that was on display out side most restaurants. It looks so real you really think you can eat it!

For a quick snack there is always the ever present convenience store which sell lunch box (bento), salads, noodles, hamburgers and my favourite, the onigiri (a seaweed wrapped rice ball filled with tuna, beans and various other fillings, costing around 100yen it fills you up on the run.

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