Japan - food 日本美食 By Candice

When you talk about Japanese food, the first few things you would think about are miso 

soups, sushi and hand-pull noodles. In Hong Kong, you can easily notice the Japanese 

restaurant around you.

Now I would like to introduce different symbolic food one by one:

First, miso soups (味噌湯みそしる), they are the most common soup in Japan, since all family

includes miso soups in their daily meals. In all Japanese restaurants in Hong Kong, you must

be able to order miso soups, which are also very popular among Hong Kong people.

Moreover, you can buy the powder of miso soups in many convenience stores like Welcome

(惠康) and 759 (阿信屋).

Second, hand-pull noodles. Japanese noodles (日本拉麵) are becoming as important as rice in  
Hong Kong. Even though noodles are invented by the Chinese, but they are improved by the 

Japanese. That’s why noodles are popular in both countries. However, there are totally 

different kinds of soups in Japan, e.g. high soup. Because of this, a few stores selling 

Japanese noodles have become a hot topic. For example, people in Hong Kong would like to 

queue up for 6 hours to eat noodles in Ichiran (天然豚骨拉麵專門店一蘭 ).

  

Last but not least, sushi (壽司 すし) is the Japanese traditional food I love the most. You can 

also order it in all Japanese restaurants. Also, there are roulette sushi restaurant in Hong 

Kong, like Genryoku Sushi and Sushi Express. The main characteristic of sushi is raw fish(魚

生), such as Salmon(鮪魚) , octopus(章魚) and conch(螺). Though there are many 

controversies against the raw fish, I will not stop eating sushi because I really love it!