The major part of the food they eat in Japan is served cold almost every time because the food they eat is raw. When the food is fried or cooked they will not serve it before it has getting cold. It’s not meat that makes people rich in Japanese kitchens in Japan, it’s fish and vegetables. That’s because the Japanese can’t afford the expensive and one of the best meat in the world. The meat of high quality is especially served on teppanyaki-restaurants, which is a dream for meatlovers, but that food doesn’t belong to the traditional Japanese kitchen.

For the very most Japanese people fish is the most natural and common food. Maybe it’s because only 17 percent of Japan is agriculturable. And most of that part is rice planters. There have never been possibilities for stock-raising in a larger scale.

But Japanese islands are surrounded by water with a lot of fish. And not only fish, there’s a lot of shellfish too.

Japanese meals have very special esthetics. It has been told many times that it seams like the beauty is more important than the taste in Japanese kitchens. It’s more like an exhibition than a restaurant. But the Japanese themselves say that the atmosphere is important to how it’s going to taste. And how to create a nice atmosphere is an art that is called yosou.

An ordinary dinner is what comes with the plate. In the front left corner we got a bowl of rice and in front right corner we got a bowl of soup. Besides that there’s a lot of small and different plates and bowls. There’s always a bowl of bottled vegetables, “pickles”. The meal is what is served, the only thing you can have more of is rice and eventually soup. Desserts are normally not served but sometimes you end up with some fruit. The Japanese drink beer and “sake” to their food, never vine. They also have a lot of rules and here are some of them:

Do never take Soya on the rice

When you’re done, see if you’ve everything at the right place so it doesn’t looks like Hiroshima on your plate.

Do not point or shake with your sticks in the air.

Do not leave your sticks standing in a bowl.