One expects the best Chinese food in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. Would one be surprised that Japan has
excellent Chinese food as well?
I hope my photographs, taken in some restaurants in the Tokyo and Osaka
areas, will convince you that it is indeed the case. The five dishes, in order, are whole crispy
skin chicken 炸子鷄, braised
abalone 蚝皇鮑魚, scrambled
egg with shark fin and crab meat 蟹肉桂花翅, roasted
pork belly 焼腩, and braised suppon (soft shell turtle) 红焼国產山瑞.
Not all Chinese restaurants in Japan deliver such refined dishes. Most places serve up Japanese-Chinese cuisine
that has been modified to suit the Japanese palate. Some dishes are particularly popular – shumai 焼売 and shouronpou 小籠包 for dim-sum; banbanji 棒棒鶏 and kurage (海蜇頭 jellyfish) for appetizers; mabo-doufu 麻婆豆腐 for main dish; and of course chahan 炒飯. Champon ちゃんぽん, a noodle soup topped with stir-fried
seafood, pork, vegetable, is also well liked.
Ramen 拉麵, another version of Chinese inspired noodle soup, together
with gyoza 餃子, are probably the most popular cheap fast food around
Japan. Yes, Chinese restaurants are
everywhere and Japanese likes them.
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