A Look at Breakfast in Japan Good Eats! A Weekly Roundup from Serious Eats

Every week we bring you our favorite posts from our friends at Serious Eats. This week they take a look at vegetable stock, chipotle shrimp, and an array of breakfasts from Japan.

• Culinary Ambassadors: Breakfast in Japan - What does a typical Japanese breakfast look like? There's a lot of variety...

• Crisp Chipotle Shrimp With Corn And Scallions - A quick and delicious dinner.

• Equipment: I Love My Squeeze Bottles - J. Kenji rhapsodizes about his squeeze bottles.

• Endives, Apples, And Grapes - Bitter endives, sweet-tart apples and green grapes — a recipe from Dorie Greenspan's new book.

• 5 Principles of Vegetable Stock (and Why You Should Care) - A few helpful principles for making great vegetable stock.

Previous Good Eats: Warm Fig, Mozzarella, And Prosciutto Sandwich

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Comments (3)

The "typical" Japanese breakfast is nowhere near as elaborate as this or what most people believe it to be. This is what is served at Japanese inns (ryokan), bigger hotels, and possibly some posher restaurants.

The typical Japanese breakfast is soup and bread - sometimes a roll of some sort and sometimes a piece of toast. Some people have miso soup and rice, but the vast majority of Tokyoites are having something pretty stripped down and familiar to Western folks (yogurt is also popular). The main difference between the Western breakfast and Japanese one is that they don't eat cereal, and they often have some sort of soup. It's rare for modern Japanese people to have the whole shebang as pictured on this post, very rare.

http://1000thingsaboutjapan.blogspot.com/

Orchid64, if you click on the link that's pretty much what the SE post says.

Reminds me of the description of the Japanese breakfasts in David Sedaris' When You Are Engulfed in Flames.