num_pages: 288
description: Open wide and sink your teeth into Lonely Planet's new World Food guides. Whether you're hungry for adventure, or a steaming bowl of Vietnamese pho, these guides will satisfy your every craving. Written in an entertaining and opinionated style, these are the definitive culinary guides to the world's major travel destinations. They are an indispensable reference for both adventurous cooks and travellers trying to eat their way through unfamiliar menus and markets. With tantalising photography throughout, they are also a feast for the eyes. The pocket-size World Food guides serve up heaping portions of information on everything to do with eating and drinking in a country. They cover the history and evolution of the cuisine, its staples and specialties, and the kitchen philosophy of the people. Lonely Planet opens the doors on home cooking and traditions, showing how food and drink have become integral to personal and national celebrations, and discovering the myriad of regional cuisines that exist in even the most familiar countries. JapanFrom the traditional dishes served at rural hot-spring ryokan inns, to the restaurant-filled high-rise madness of Tokyo, Japan expresses itself through its food. This guide takes you on a journey through all of Japan's culinary life. We go beyond the familiar sake and sushi, covering the essentials -- dashi (stock), bento boxes, and soba noodles, and the exotic -- fermented soy beans, matsutake mushrooms, and fish that still wriggle as they slide down your throat. Itadakimasho! Let's eat!
  
  This guidebook features:
  
The essential guide to the culture of food and drink in JapanCelebrating the seasons with Japan's calendar of festivalsAn exploration of the regional influences that make up Japanese cuisineShopping and eating out in Japan as well as understanding the menuThe definitive culinary dictionary, a quick reference glossary, and useful phrases for every food and drink occasionTantalizing photography and recipes
language: English
title: World Food Japan
titlecomplete: World Food Japan
genres: Japan, Travel
ratings_count: 24
publisher: Lonely Planet Publications