What is the street food that most makes Japanese people salivate?
Recently, bubble tea in Japan, there has been a trend of double-clicking.
The bubble tea shops in Tokyo's busiest business districts, such as Ginza, Shinjuku, and Harajuku, have become sparse and thin, and the bubble tea that has not been popular for two years has entered the frenzy of closing stores.
*Extended reading: Bubble tea has finally been in Japan?
1st store in Kachi Harajuku Omotesando,Graduated!
Harajuku COCO, Graduate!
It is not unusual to think that the milk tea shop in our motherland has evolved many times in the past ten years, and there are new hot spots almost every year, such as cheese milk caps, seasonal fruit tea, dirty series, pure tea and the black technology "Ice Boke" that was hotly chased by the whole network last year.
And at a glance at Japan's milk tea, it turned out to be "from Taiwan", "bubble tea" for decades.
In Harajuku, once known as the "holy land of bubble tea" by the Japanese, the business of bubble tea is dismal, and chain stores such as "tribute tea" and "COCO" are closed or closed.
Is it because the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an economic downturn?
It seems that it is not, now Harajuku Takeshita and other places have gradually returned to the bustle of the past, and even if the pot is thrown to the epidemic, it is impossible to explain that the milk tea shop has just closed, and the same shop has been immediately put down by the fried chicken shop.
Harajuku Takeshita-dori, which has been revived
A fried chicken shop that occupies the "highlands"
Sure enough, for the Japanese, bubble tea is temporary, and fried chicken is the eternal god?
In modern times, Japan's exchanges with the West and China have been deepening, and most of the things that are accustomed to contemporary Japanese food life have appeared after the Edo period.
Japanese foodies combine Japanese style with the essence of Western and Chinese cuisine to form their unique food culture.
Chun Shui Tang, the founder of bubble tea, also sold noodles and desserts in the milk tea shop, and the taste was also Japanese flavors such as black sesame dan dan noodles, ginger sour and spicy soup, and Uji matcha, showing an extraordinary desire to survive.
Chun Shui Tang: Black sesame noodles with chicken and ginger sour and spicy soup noodles
Shunsuido Kyoto Limited, Uji Matcha Bean Flowers
In this way, it is not surprising that fried chicken, which comes from the West, is more popular with Japanese people than bubble tea, but has been transformed by the Japanese since the Meiji Restoration.
So what is the street food that most makes Japanese people salivate?
We don't go through the program, just eat! See if there's anything you like
Exploding Karaage
Under the new crown epidemic, the replacement of milk tea shops can already explain to some extent how well fried chicken can be beaten.
Even, in order to survive, some milk tea shops even sell fried chicken milk tea packages, and this spiral rubbing method also makes people call insiders.
Note: In fact, the total sales of fried chicken shops are still about 58% lower than before, but the good thing is that the basic market is large.
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Needless to say, the chicken has been marinated in soy sauce, garlic, ginger and a variety of seasonings, and the smell is fragrant, the outer layer is crisp and crispy, the chicken on the inside is juicy and tender, and the name of the king of street food is well deserved.
In the Queen of The Heavenly Sea's Japanese drama "Samsung Nutritious Lunch", only the light of the convenience store fried chicken actually overshadowed the dishes of the three-star chef. Although there are elements of drama and exaggeration, compared with the French meal full of "Versailles", fried chicken is the god of ordinary people
In the play, the queen also struggles to defeat the fried chicken in the convenience store
For more philosophical questions about Japanese fried chicken, you can move on to our previous related articles for more information.
*Click to see the island people's fried chicken philosophy: Why do Japanese people quarrel over fried chicken?
Explosive Croquette
As one of the three giants of foreign food in the Taisho period (tonkatsu, cola cake, curry rice), it is needless to say that it is the mass base in Japan.
The fried potatoes and meat are a match made in heaven, the chopped onion can stimulate its sweetness, the outer layer of crispy and the soft cola cake on the inside is already very addictive, and each person can also eat it with soy sauce, Worcester sauce or ketchup according to their own tastes, and the delicious taste is even higher.
Unlike meats such as fried chicken and pork chops, which are greatly reduced in flavor after they are cold, the texture of the sunken mashed potatoes makes the cola cake still have a different flavor even if it is "cold".
Eclecticism has become another big killer of cola cakes, it is not only the top stream of the food stalls, but also as the top of the buckwheat, udon or rice bowl, which makes people feel satisfied, and can be sandwiched in sandwiches and bread as fillings, moisturizing and silent. How to eat, I think it is delicious~
Coke burger and hot dog
Cola cakes that have been baptized in Japan have a proper noun Inapanese style breadcrumbs (Japanese bread flour, abbreviated as Panko) abroad due to the special dough.
Obviously from abroad, it has even achieved reverse output, which shows the charm of fried goods such as cola cakes after the transformation.
Dango
As a branch of the Wagyu, the mass base of the tuanzi is naturally not weak. The number of shops selling dumplings in various parts of Japan is no less than the number of shops selling cake dumplings in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
If you also like the soft and sticky taste, then Japanese dumplings can definitely give your mouth 100% satisfaction.
In addition, people can feel the joy of changing the seasons from the group.
Flower viewing will think of hanami dumplings, moon appreciation will think of moon dumplings, summer shaved ice, if there is no white jade dumplings, it seems that this bowl of ice is not so delicious.
Being able to tie food and time together is a point that many other daily snacks are difficult to achieve, and it is also the unique charm of dumplings.
Therefore, in terms of the degree of domineering taste, the dumplings may be slightly inferior to various fried goods. However, if you want to talk about the appearance that can evoke people's poetic imagination of spring flowers and autumn moons, the various dumplings are perfectly suitable.
* Pattern Dumpling Portal: Do Japanese people also eat dough in the spring?
Tardine Taiyaki
As we all know, sea bream grill is a kind of seabream-shaped snack~
I believe that there must be a small partner who is curious, why must it be a sea bream grill and not a tuna grilled salmon grill?
There are two main reasons, one of which is that the Japanese love red, so the snapper of the "noble powder" throughout is basically the C-position fish of the major pavilions, which is a symbol of high class.
Part 2: "I want to" "Give" "Ka", "Give" Kaki Kayu", Aya Iri.
Speaking of appearance, let's talk about taste.
In terms of taste, sea bream is also a model of Japanese and Western fusion, waffle-made skin first attracts people from the roadside with a slightly caramelized smell, followed by a soft texture to make people intoxicated, and finally the sweet red bean filling can easily hit the hearts of every dessert lover.
Even though eating a whole bar may feel too sweet, the satisfaction of the first bite seems to be just now.
Of course, today's sea bream has long been in order to stand out in the fierce snack competition has been spent on a lot of ideas, the choice of fillings is amazing, in addition to the red beans, chocolate, cream, matcha and other sweet and decent, there are even what dumplings, sausages and other evil people to join in.
There are even people who try to form a "dream linkage" between sea bream and small dumplings, and a small steamed bun on the bread...
* Want to see the island people's strange small dumplings to go here: the Japanese finally started to do something about small dumplings
Dark temperament of the small steamed sea bream grilled
This can't help but remind people of the snail powder green dough we have here, and the competition for snacks has been so fierce?
Shokoban / Shoban Komaruko with Octopus Grilled
Although octopus is now the number one when it comes to Kansai's representative snacks, takoyaki is the undisputed number one, so much so that even in China, you can see octopus grilled in a Japanese restaurant.
This kind of taste is crispy on the outside and sticky on the inside, the recipe is still the royal combination of seafood + carb + vegetables, even if you eat buffet, it is difficult to control to eat two portions~
Although it is widely popular, the history of octopus grilled is not very long.
The founder of takoyaki was Rukichi Endo of Aizuya, Nishiari-ku, Osaka City, and the original "takoyaki" did not have octopus at all, and the filling was meat and konjac, which can be considered to be freshly made small meatballs.
Today's takoyaki method was only established in 1935, and Endo imitates the local cuisine of his hometown of Aizu, seasoning the flour so that it can be eaten directly without any seasoning, which is very convenient. Modern sauces with octopus grilled sauces did not appear until 1948 after the war.
Xiao Tong had a good friend who once said: "Octopus grill is a flour dumpling, what is delicious?" ”
Although my mood was shocked and embarrassed, I still couldn't say the sentence: "You have to eat octopus grilled to do it."
丽饼/Crepe
Another snack from France, but because of the Japanese remodeling fire.
Once upon a time, in France, the crepe was the "conical pancake fruit", basically used as a staple food, want to eat salty, put some salt and butter, want to eat sweet, put some sugar and cream, completely without today's fancy.
Japan has expanded on crepes, giving it more possibilities, and in specialty stores you can eat crepes wrapped in a variety of fruits, cream, chocolate, ice cream and even meat (a practice invented by the Japanese).
Dazzling crepes
Originally just a simple village girl's crepe, it already has the attribute of an internet celebrity. Sure enough, appearance is justice.
In the TV series "Extreme Master Fu Dao", the role of Kenichi Takito was originally a "vicious tiger", and after all, the underworld also sold crepe on the side of the road, and it is international law to eat it on the mobile phone first.
From the Japanese drama "Extreme Master Fu Dao"
Gokono /Osaka-yaki/Character 烧/广岛烧 Okonomiyaki
When you see the burning characters, you should be able to guess that this is the same food from Kansai.
These "burns", in general, are the same kind of food. Refers to food that spreads ingredients such as batter, seafood, meat, vegetables, etc. onto an iron plate to make pancakes, and then drizzles them with your favorite sauce.
Osaka Okonomiyaki-like japanese-day dissociation, "Okonomiyaki stuttering" (okonomiyaki) Japanese "roasting" (grilling).
Osaka 烧~
Have you thought of anything when you see this? Isn't it very much like "pizza"~
Xiao Tong here will talk a little bit about the characteristics of these "burns".
#御好烧/ Osaka yaki, thick, pie-shaped, noodles and side dishes mixed together, is a complete cake
#文字烧, thinner, mushy, side dishes placed alone in the middle of the hole, is a "cover pouring cake"
#广岛烧, thick, cake-shaped, to add fried noodles, and the noodles and fried noodles are made separately, is a "cover topping cake"
This is Hiroshima ware, pay attention to the noodles below
Note: In most Japanese contexts, Osaka yaki is Miyoshi yaki, or Kansai-style Miyoshi yaki.
Friends who know something about eating and drinking in Japan will definitely know that the Japanese food world has always had a "dispute between things", and the personalized food of Okonyaki is naturally no exception.
Osaka yaki in the Kansai region is the absolute king, while in the Kanto region, Hiroshima yaki is even better, and as for the character ware, it is basically a favorite variety of the people of Tokyo.
Thin words burn
Uncle Goro, who was shocked by Osaka Ware
Skewer / Explosive skewer skewer / Deep-fried skewer
Finally, it's the long-awaited skewer and skewer finale.
How can there be no gourmet skewers and fried skewers loved by people all over the world in the snack world?
The two cooking methods of roasting and frying fully stimulate the various aromatic substances in the ingredients through the Maillard reaction, and the high temperature dehydrates the ingredients themselves, and the taste also evolves.
There is nothing in this world that a skewer can't solve, and if there is, add another skewer, absolutely appropriate.
Japanese kebabs are a little more delicate and refined than we are, and the ingredients are basically chicken and beef, and there are not too many "dark" temperament ingredients.
The main two series of grilled skewers are salt roasted and sauce roasted, salt roasted refreshing, sauce roasted rich, each according to preference ~ ~
In addition to pigs, cattle, sheep, horses, chickens, fish, shrimp, shellfish in the sea, onions, mushrooms, peppers, onions, onions, eggplant, bamboo shoots, okra, small tomatoes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, eggplant, eggplant, green peppers, lotus, burdock, pumpkin, garlic, asparagus, asparagus, as well as cheese, rice cakes, ginger and so on, can be fried to eat. (Call ~ end of the name of the dish!)
Usually, the skewers are dipped in soy sauce and served with cabbage. However, in some places, the skewers are even fried and then boiled in the towed (a kind of beef tendon soup dish) and then eaten, I don't know if you can eat it habitually.
Tokute yaki skewers from lonely gourmand S6E1
The content about grilled skewers and fried skewers is too large, Xiao Tong here will throw bricks and introduce the jade slightly, anyway, eat once you will know. (Uncle Goro silently praised ~).
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