sushi, sashimi, and udon or soba when you think of food in Japan, people here have an incredibly rich and varied diet, with popular Chinese and Italian and Indian dishes, American favorites like “Hamburg Steak” (a large steak made of hamburger meat, which Japanese assume we eat every day in the U.S.), and so on. A lot of the foods I really like now are ones I hadn’t even known existed before I came to live here. One of my all-time favorite meals is katsu, a cutlet of pork or chicken that’s fried and eaten with rice and that heavenly sauce, and it’s one of the dishes the J-List prefecture of Gunma is famous for. Then there’s Chicken and Egg Soboro, perhaps my favoritest food ever. It’s basically teriyaki chicken, flavored ground beef and scrambled egg eaten over steaming rice, and I always have to fight with my kids for seconds when we have it at my house.
