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Japanese menu

Japanese uses rice, soybean, vegetables, fruit, seafood products a lot. In one meal Japanese serve a lot of food. It is served in little plates and they eat with wooden chopsticks.

For dinner they make snacks form boiled and non-boiled vegetables (cabbages, carrots, radishes, mushrooms, corn, beans, young bamboo sprouts, lotus leaf stalks and algae), raw or pickled fish or mollusks.

It is important that the food is cooked from backed pork, veal, and poultry or fish meat with a lot of rice or thin noodles which are made of soy flour, salt, pepper and water, as a side dish. Soups are served in small, closed plates after the main course.

The meal is ended with fresh fruit: mango, melons, apples, piers, bananas, strawberries, grapes, figs, persimmons, peaches. As spices they use pepper, ginger, onion rings, wine vinegar and rice vinegar. They use pickled and salted vegetables a lot, like rutabaga, cucumbers and garlic.

As a Japanese traditional drink green tea is served without sugar in every meal time with a particular ritual.