Japanese home cooking
By Dyske August 14th, 2007
Ever wonder what Japanese people typically eat at home? Do they eat only Japanese food? Do they eat sushi every night? Well, you can see my sister’s food blog where she keeps track of what her family eats every day (almost). As you can see, it’s pretty diverse.
I’ve always found it strange that in some cultures, all they eat is their own cuisines. In India and China, for instance. From what I’ve heard, they pretty much eat only their own cuisines. To be honest, I could not imagine eating Indian food every day. If you know why, in certain cultures, people only eat their own cuisines, please let me know.
Knives says:
August 14th, 2007 at 11:09 amI come from a spanish family and I know that most of the time, all my family eats is spanish food. The elders of the family eat it constantly because a lot of them don’t know how to make anything else. They’ve been cooking spanish food their entire lives and don’t really know about trying new foods, and it is much too late for them to try new things now.
To the family members that DO know of other foods but still eat spanish food most of the time, it’s a mixture of stubbornness and maybe even a hint of racism/a racial superiority complex. I remember bringing home some delicious Japanese curry while my grandmother was visiting and I offered her some. She quickly rejected, saying it’s a stupid food the Indian’s eat and that makes them all smell like jock straps. When I tried to explain the difference between Japanese and Indian curry, her mind was all but deadset on rejection and tuning out my voice of reason. Also, I often tell my mother to make rice in the pressure cooker so that it may come out with a “Japanese consistency” but my grandmother will always refuse to eat it, as she’d much rather have her spanish style, more crunchy, pot cooked rice.
So I believe the reason so many cultures get hung up on their own food, is because it’s the elders who do the cooking for most of their children’s early years, and by the time the children become adults, they’ll only have known one type of food their entire lives. It takes the parents to regularly introduce new types of food in order to break that cycle, so to say.
…..at least, that’s my take on the subject.
Itadakimasu!
Cymothoe says:
September 4th, 2007 at 5:42 amI live in America with my Chinese-immigrated family and I know we eat Chinese food every night because of tradition. For my parents, it’s a daily comfort and reminder of their old life back in China. I know that personally my father wouldn’t be able to go on for a week without eating at least one bowl of rice. However, we do go out and eat out and include non-Chinese dishes (American steak, Indian curry, Japanese fish, etc.) on our dinner table from time to time.
However, I also know my close Chinese-American friend almost never eats Chinese food at home and my cousin living in China eats out (mostly fast-food) as much as he eats his traditional Chinese food at home. Statistically, China has the highest grossing number of people eating out at fast-food restaurants.
I hope that helps… ^_^
may says:
September 15th, 2007 at 5:56 pmMy parents moved to the US from Japan right before I was born, and living in California, they were easily able to find Japanese groceries & prepared foods, as well as Japanese fast-food. Since moving to New Jersey when I was a child, we’ve eaten more American food, b/c of the difficulty of finding Jap groceries in the NJ suburbs. Pasta, burgers & fries, pizza for the kids. Japanese foods consisted almost entirely of curry (but w/ meat & potatoes, American ingredients) and miso soup (potatoes & onions, again American ingredients). The kids introduced Middle Eastern, Indian, Korean & other cuisines as we got older. Now Japanese food is only eaten out, especially since we go out to eat when the kids come home to visit the parents. Although I have to say, lately it’s been a lot of Korean. Who knows, maybe next year we’ll be doing Ethiopian or something else.
may says:
September 15th, 2007 at 6:00 pmhaha, i don’t think that helps much. but i just wanted share. hee-heee.
pick32 says:
October 29th, 2007 at 8:03 amI live on Okinawa and there is this place called COCO CURRY. Th eonly people I ever see in there are americans. I have no idea why they like it but whatever. I went to Honolulu on vacation and they had a COCO’s at the mall and the only ones in line were all the japanese tourists! I know when I go on vacation I want to try the food of the land. I saw them mostly stick to what they get in japan. Why is that? I
Kristi says:
June 19th, 2008 at 11:52 amIm lithuanian and German.. Ill eat just about anything and I always like to switch it up. But I can understand loving something so much you want to eat it all the time. Mine would be crab legs or sushi. I could eat either of those for an entire year, breakfast lunch dinner.. you name it and I would be happy as a lark to be quite honest.
My diet conists of everything under the sun thats good to eat and healthy for you. Damnit now Im hungry for sushi!
Fried Sushi says:
May 31st, 2012 at 12:10 pmIt’s about trust.
What in the world is Thai Sushi?? Every other “sushi” restaurant has become a Thai-sushi-chinese cafeteria style restaurant. The tuna looks like an eraser. The scallops are all the same size and shape ( yeah, just like in nature.) What in the world are they serving?
It’s like America has bastardized “sushi.” Sushi used to mean food that was prepared by highly trained chefs – not only for aesthetic reasons but more importantly, for food safety reasons. It is raw food and where it come from really matters. In Japan, sushi restaurants, the chefs and the fish they buy are highly regulated. The only requirement in the US is that the building passes a basic safety inspection and the rice has 5% vinegar ( which makes it really sour.)
All you can eat sushi for $10.99 is putting a lot of pressure on real sushi restaurants where $10.99 will get you only 2-3 pieces of sushi.
So, home is the safest place to eat.
Rudyanto Lay says:
July 27th, 2012 at 9:36 pmI like Japanese food
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Candy says:
March 18th, 2015 at 9:36 pmI am a Vietnamese/European American person. I love to try new foods and eat foods from other cultures. My Vietnamese grandparents will only cook Vietnamese and Chinese food. They tried to learn how to make sushi, but failed. They love to go out and eat sushi. My Europen/American grandparents refuse to eat many Asian foods and will openly call it disgusting. I hate that they do that. I don’t understand white people, yet I’m half of one.