Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network

Show Name: Food Away from Home (World Tour)

Episode Title: Jammin in Japan

Cece: What’s up guys? Welcome to the fourth episode of our podcast, “Food Away From Home (World Tour)”, with your hosts Annie, Cece, and Shiv. In this episode, we're going to be talking about the different foods that you can find in Japan, and where they can be found. Let's get started!

Shiv: Japan is a large country-island-that is located in the South Pacific Ocean. It has many geographic locations that vary from cities, countrysides, and mountains, such as Mount Fuji. In these widespread and vast areas, there are many different cultures and traditions, as well as amazing foods, that need to be tried out.

Annie: We can start with Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Tokyo is a very populated and touristic city, with many different experiences and places to visit-but lets get into the food!

Annie: In Tokyo, the foods include many.

-Sushi, which is a ball of rice underneath a piece of freshly picked, raw fish, such as salmon, and tuna.

-Sashimi, which is just pieces of freshly picked, raw fish.

-Maki, which is your classic rice roll with seaweed to contain the rice and a piece of raw fish on top.

Cece-I have been to Japan, and I found it such as amazing, and cultural place. There were so many things that were unique, and different from the U.S, and it had very beautiful scenery. I spent about a week in Tokyo, and can tell you that the foods are so good, and need to be tried!

Cece-What I especially liked about the foods were the Shabu Shabu japanese dishes.

- Shabu Shabu are restaurants where there are hot pot dishes and you can cook your own thinly cut meat, tofu, as well as vegetables, inside of this “broth” like soup.

• “Shabu Shabu” is a literary term for “swish”, because of the swishing sound that the meat makes when it is cooked. They usually use Wagyu beef, which is very prestigious and important to the Japanese culture.
• I found these so interesting and diverse, and I loved the taste of the finishing product!

Shiv: Another popular and interesting food in Tokyo is ramen. Ramen is a bowl of broth, or soup, with noodles, either crispy or rice noodles, in the broth, with vegetables, tofu, and oteh==her ingredients for a perfect finishing product!

Cece: When I went to Tokyo, I visited this one restaurant, where you could choose the ingredients you wanted in your ramen, simply buy taking a grocery basket, and "shopping around” for fresh ingredients around the store. Then, you would pay for the ingredients, and give them to the chefs, who would make you the ramen using the ingredients you chose. They could also add spice levels, and toppings for you as well. This was so good, and a unique experience!

Shiv says what her favorite is - Annie and Cece build off of that

Cece: Now, take it away Annie

Segment 2: Popular foods and Sweets/Snacks

Annie: There are many delicious foods in Japan. Many that you might eat! There are many snacks as well. There are different foods in Tokyo and Kyoto, like what we described in India, but they are all still delicious. Shiv will start us off with some of these cuisines.

Shiv: Thanks Annie!

Some of the popular foods in Tokyo Japan are many that you might have heard of!

• Raman - Noodle soups with rich broth and toppings. Great for anytime of the year.
• Sushi - Rolls of rice, veggies, and fish/meat and dipped in soy sauce, wasabi, and/or ginger. There are both meat rolls as well as vegetarian rolls.
• Tempura is deep fried fish or veggies and has a crunchy outer layer.
• Yakitori is skewered grilled chicken
• Tonkatsu is A breaded and deep fried pork cutlet
• Monjayaki...