Contemporary Food Habits
Each
race in the world has their habit of eating food. Same goes to Japanese and
Japan country. Historically, Japanese cuisine has been popular and known to
have healthy qualities due to the large consumption of fish and vegetables
portions. Moreover, rice which is rich
of carbohydrate nutrient is an essential food in Japan is eaten at almost every
meal. We get to know Japanese be living up to their cooking goals of adhere to
the freshness of the food and divert from processed ingredients or any artificial
menus. That is why eating raw fish and vegetables would be an ideal
representation of the Japanese’s food culture.
Besides,
Japanese did not use many spices and seasoning in their daily meals and were
also not into oily foods. Even their
most commonly used seasonings are soy sauce, miso (soy bean paste), rice
vinegar, sake (alcoholic beverage used like wine in food dishes) and wasabi. By
completing this task, we get to know somehow eating habits in Japan was
influenced by geographical location. The geographical location of Japan plays a
big part in what foods are consumed by Japanese. For example, since it is
surrounded by water, so it would make sense that fish is a main element in
Japanese cuisine.
Generally,
Japanese meals consist of a main food combined with soup, main dish and a few
sides. Main food usually consists of steamed rice or soba, ramen or udon
noodles and would be accompanied with soup dish. Soup dish typically a miso
soup made with seaweed, shellfish or tofu and vegetables in a fermented soybean
stock. Next, their main dish included fish, seafood, tofu or natto with
optional small amounts of meat, poultry, or eggs meanwhile their side dish
consists of vegetables (raw, steamed, boiled, sautéed, grilled or pickled),
wild plants, seaweed and raw or pickled fruit.
As
for the meal times, it was such as common time as other Asia countries. For
breakfast, Japanese would have their meals at around six to seven in the
morning while lunch would be held at twelve until one in the afternoon. Then, Japanese
would have their dinner at around six till eight o’clock in the evening. As we
already knew, community in Japan is considered as cultured people and being
late during their meal times if you are an invited guest is kind of
inappropriate and less-mannered. Besides, meal times in the country are
considered as important times for family gathering.
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