Ramen, one of popular japanese food you have to eat
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Japanese cuisine does not abuse too much spices but focuses on highlighting the fresh, pure, natural flavor of the food. The taste of Japanese food is usually elegant, gentle, subtle and suitable to the nature of each season. If you can enjoy all the dishes in this country, you probably can’t miss some of the following foods. These are all popular foods in Japan. Many of them are Japanese street food, but their appeal is undeniable. Now, let’s check it out our list of the budget Japanese food with top 11 popular dishes in Japan that but make the fame for Japanese cuisine including most popular Japanese snacks, most popular food in Japan, budget Japanese dishes, famous and popular Japanese food with Living Nomads below.

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Japanese Kaiseki cuisine
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Sashimi, the queen of Japanese cuisine.
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Okonomiyaki, delicious Japanese pancake worth to try.
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Sushi, must eat food in Japan
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Yakitori, popular Japanese food you must try
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Tempura (including eel spine kara-age). One of the signature dish of Japan
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Kushikatsu, famous street food in Kyoto
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Takoyaki (Octopus Balls), popular street food in Japan
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Osaka street food

Okonomiyaki

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Okonomiyaki, also known as Japanese pancake, is not only a popular street food in Japan but also a favorite dish by many tourists. This dish is also called by many Japanese crepe but the ingredients that make up this dish are salty. The main ingredient of the cake is flour, cabbage combined with other ingredients such as meat, cheese, seafood and wasabi. There are many different versions of Okonomiyaki in Japan in each region.

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Fluffy Kansai-style Okonomiyaki
Fluffy Kansai-style Okonomiyaki
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You can enjoy Okonomiyaki at anywhere in Japan.
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Hiroshima Okonomiyaki style
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Okonomiyaki in Hiroshima with the separate layers between flour and kernel.

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Osaka is home to Okonomiyaki.
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Takoyaki

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Takoyaki, one of the most popular dishes in Japan

This is a popular street food in Osaka, then spread out and enjoyed in many places throughout Japan. The round Takoyaki cake is made of octopus, vegetables, served with Takoyaki sauce, mayonnaise and Katsuobushi (dried, fermented, and smoked skipjack tuna).

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Shabu Shabu

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Japanese Beef Hot Pot (Shabu Shabu)

Shabu Shabu can be understood as a kind of Japanese hotpot with the main ingredient is thinly sliced beef and dipped in a hotpot and then dip in sauce. This dish has a simple way of cooking, in which the delicious taste depends very much on beef. Traditional Shabu shabu must be eaten with beef but recently people can also eat chicken and pork meat.

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Many fresh ingredients that make a tasty Shabu Shabu hotpot

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A hot pot is very good for health

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Onigiri

Onigiri pickled plum rice balls

Onigiri rice balls are very popular street food in Japan. This rice ball has a variety of different kernels and wrap a bit of seaweed outside. Onigiri is a popular dish, sold at many convenience stores. With Japanese people as well as tourists traveling to Japan, this is a fast-food option, the price is quite cheap for busy time or want to save trip budget.

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Onigiri Japanese rice balls
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The essence of Onigiri is in the way the seaweed wraps around the rice.
Onigiri is sold a lot in supermarkets and convenience stores
Onigiri is sold a lot in supermarkets and convenience stores

Dango

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Dango can be understood as a sweet Japanese rice dumplings with ingredients mainly of rice flour, making round balls but usually skewers 3, 4 balls in a stick and then pourn with sauce. In Japan, dango is eaten all year round, however there are many types of dango to suit each season and time.

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Hana Yori Dango
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Hanami Dango

Hanami Dango

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Mitarashi dango
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Shiratama Dango

Udon Noodles

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Sanuki Udon

Japan has many famous noodles, one of which is Udon. Udon is a type of noodles made from wheat flour, big and thick fiber, served with broth and many other side dishes such as tofu, eggs, tempura. Udon has both hot and cold versions.

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Great delicious sanuki udon noodles of Japanese cuisine.

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Sanuki Udon japan (1)

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Photo: popular dishes in japan blog.
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A bowl of one fiber noodle of Udon

Yakitori

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Yakitori is a Japanese type of skewered chicken on charcoal. Although ingredients, the ways of cook are not picky but this is quite a popular snack. Yakitori can be processed from many different parts of the chicken such as breast, heart, intestine, organs..

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Chicken Yakitori, one of most delicious foods in Japan
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Picture: budget japanese food blog.

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One of must eat in Japan. Credit: popular japanese food blog.

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Read more: Chicken Yakitori — How to make, enjoy Chicken Yakitori in Japan.

Popular Japanese food: Taiyaki

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Taiyaki, one of the most popular Japanese snacks

The fish-shaped taiyaki cakes, filled with red bean paste, are popular Japanese food. Taiyaki is especially delicious when just baked, fragrant, crispy and soft crust. Today, Taiyaki has many other kinds of kernels such as custard, chocolate or even salty.

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One of the most popular Japanese snacks you should eat.

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Budget Japanese food: Ramen

Ramen, one of popular japanese food you have to eat
Ramen, one of the best and most popular Japanese food you have to eat

This is the most famous noodle food of Japan and has great influence in many countries around the world. Ramen has many types, the most popular ones are shoyu, shio, miso and tonkotsu. Ramen noodles are characterized by small fibers, served with a variety of foods such as eggs, meat, seaweed, onions, bean sprouts.

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Tonkotsu ramen, one of the most famous foods in Fukuoka, Japan
Tonkotsu ramen, one of the most famous foods in Fukuoka, Japan
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Ramen – One of the cheap dishes in Japan

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Most popular food in Japan: Tempura

Tempura are Japanese deep-fried foods of seafood and vegetables.
Tempura are Japanese deep-fried foods of seafood and vegetables.

Tempura is a dish usually consists of seafood or vegetables that have been battered and deep fried, tempura really diverse when it can be applied from seafood such as shrimp, squid to vegetables, mushrooms, eggplant and more. Because Tempura is coated by a thin layer of batter so it is very crispy. This dish is often served as a Japanese appetizer and snack dish.

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Shrimp tempura is one of the extremely most beloved tempura foods at Japanese restaurants.
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An Tempura restaurant in Kyoto.

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Image by: most popular food in japan blog.
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Shrimp tempura
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Vegtables tempura

Most popular food in Japan: Mochi

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Mochi cake with strawberry inside

For many years now, this traditional Japanese cake has been enjoyed by food lovers all over the world. Traditional mochi cake is made from glutinous rice flour with red bean paste, but today, the cake has a lot of different flavors and kernels such as ice cream and strawberry … making people more and more interested and favored.

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Warabi Mochi – Japanese Rice Cak
Warabi Mochi
Warabi Mochi – Japanese Rice Cak
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Warabi Mochi – Japanese Rice Cak
Warabi Mochi, delicious gift you can buy in Japan.
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Nikko Mochi cakes
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Picture: budget japanese food blog.

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