Transcript Japanese - Picnic Point High School

Japanese food is one of kind, no other country
has food like theirs. Japanese food is known
world wide and enjoyed world wide. There are
probably many shops around where you live
where you can purchase Japanese foods.
Japanese people eat carbohydrates like bread,
noodles and pasta. They eat a collection of meat,
fish, fruits and vegetables. They also eat famous,
traditional dishes such as sushi, tempura and
sukiyaki in their everyday diet.
In Japan the word for meal is gohan (ごはん),
but this word actually means steamed rice but
since rice is such an important food, gohan means
all sorts of meals.
When at the table and before a meal Japanese
people say itadakimasu（いただきます ）
to be polite. Itadakimasu means “I receive this
food”, which shows thanks to whoever worked
hard to make this meal. Once finished their meal,
Japanese people say gochiso sama deshita （ご
ちいそさま） which means in English “It
was quite a feast.”
The people of Japan had started drinking tea since the 8 th century.
The tea leaves were imported from China at first and the Zen priest
had studied there in China brought back with him tea seeds and
utensils. The drink then became widely popular, especially amongst
Buddhists Priests. Tea was then known as a medicine that could cure
all kinds of sicknesses and diseases.
Between the middle of the 15 th century was where tea parties with a
large amount of people attending became wildly popular where
guests would bring delicious plates of food and some fabulous
utensils. During the same time in Kyoto and Osaka, Japanese
townspeople started to host their own but smaller tea ceremonies.
This then started to catch on and became a popular activity amongst
wealthy Japanese retailers.
Japanese people have a special way of preparing their tea, which is
called either sado（さど） or chado（ちあど. This ceremony
is a highly structured one, and it is the preparation of making green
tea. Sado or chado means “way of tea” and was perfected in the 16 th
by a tea master. Many people take lesson to learn how to do these
ceremonies.
Japanese lunch boxes are called bento（べんと） and the word
bento was meant to have originated from the 16th century . It came
from a man named Oda Nobunaga who was a military commander
and at his castle would feed large quantities of people easy meals. The
word bento was used to explain this way of handing out food to each
person which Oda did.
In a typical bento there is rice and a number of side dishes such as
vegetables, meat, fish, eggs etc. A common side dish would be some
form of a cooked egg such as tamagoyaki（たまごやき). Some
other well-known side dishes would include grilled fish, fried meat
and fish cakes. For desert there might be some sort of fruit like an
apple. It is considered to keep rice from going bad and yucky; a
pickled Japanese apricot or umeboshi is placed on or inside a rice
bed.
Bento is made in many different ways and used to create pictures
and animals like the pictures on the left. People use them when they
can’t make it home in time to have a proper meal.
Sushi is Japan’s most recognised cultural food, it is a
popular dish to Japanese people and enjoyed by many
others world wide. Sushi contains slices of either raw
or cooked delicious fish. Many different types of fish
are used to make the different varieties of sushi.
Sushi is an incredibly delicious Japanese food. Sushi
is also extremely healthy and nutritional which is why
many people eat it because it is both tasty and healthy.
There are many different kinds of sushi, here are some
examples: there is Futomaki, Hana-zushi, Inari, Oshizushi and Chirashi-zushi. All these sushi’s are
different, both in the way they look and in the way
they taste. Either way all these different sushi's look
and taste delicious.
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Slide 2 & 3 info from…………………..………………………………………………………………………………..http://webjapan.org/kidsweb/explore/housing/index.html
Slide 4 info from……………….…………………………………………………………………………….......................http://webjapan.org/kidsweb/meet/chado/chado01.html
Slide 5 info from…………………..…………………………………………………………………………………………….http://webjapan.org/kidsweb/virtual/bento/bento01.html
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http://webjapan.org/kidsweb/virtual/bento/bento02.html
Slide 6 info from……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. http://webjapan.org/kidsweb/cook/temari/temari03.html