Late last year, the Agriculture ministry announced its plans to implement a worldwide project whereby it would determine which "Japanese" restaurants were authentic and which were not. The authentic ones would be allowed to sport a government seal of approval on its window.
Anyway, the program met a lot of criticism and has been scrapped. I'm kinda disappointed, because I hate eating fake Japanese food. I hate eating fake anything. (Except imitation crab, I like that stuff.) But I especially hate the idea of people thinking chicken teriyaki is the staple Japanese dish that everyone eats for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Not true. But how will anyone know if that's all they get at the local strip mall?
It's funny, but I've been to Japan multiple times spanning several months each time and I never knew what a "Japanese Breakfast" was until just recently I was looking at a new hotel to stay at and they listed a breakfast.
My regular breakfast was always takoyaki in the microwave and a can of coffee, or rice from the day before fried in a pan with an egg, soy sauce and bacon if I had time to make all that.
Posted by: vagrant | March 20, 2007 at 03:11 AM