What is the typical diet of a japanese girl?
- Monday Nov 16,2009 10:00 AM
- By diddy
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What does a pretty, fashionable Japanese woman in her late teens/early 20s eat on a daily basis? Would like this answered by someone Japanese who lives in Japan, and hopefully someone who actually fits into this category. I know that there’s less traditional food than there used to be, so I don’t want to see all the blather about ‘traditional japanese breakfast’ and that kind of thing. I want to know what these girls _really_ eat.
Please, can I have an answer?
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Natto (fermented soy beans)
white rice balls with dried fish and seaweed seasoning, sometimes they have pickled seaweed inside or fish (salmon, etc..)inside ( you can make these at home or buy them at the local convenience store, 7-11)
miso soup (made from miso paste) with tofu in it
they don’t drink much water, but no soda, always drinking oolong (Chinese) tea or green tea which both have caffeine (sold in plastic bottles everywhere and unsweetened)
In the summer they drink mugicha (barley tea)
lots of seaweed salads (packaged as fast food at the local convenient stores)
dried konbu (seaweed)
also at the convenient store a prepackaged bento including steamed vegetables such as burdock root and carrots and fish such as mackeral or grilled salmon
lots of kelp
seasonal fruit (tangerines, persimmons, etc..) but only as a dessert
lots of cooked veggies
after a night out drinking many will eat octopus (takoyaki)in a grilled dumpling and baked sweet potatoes (yaki imo) , which we would call yams, both sold by street venders
bar snacks usually included fried tofu, grilled eggplant and always lots of edamame (green soybeans boiled in the pod)
The thinnest 20 something in Japan, whom I stayed with for a few weeks ate this everyday:
breakfast 2 rice balls with nori seaweed rice cooker preset the night before
one class of oolong tea
10 am green tea
lunch a huge Fujiya apple and a big block of tofu (the firm kind), water
dinner rice balls, miso soup, green tea that’s it!
buckwheat noodles (soba)
ramen with eggs and veggies and pork in it
Most people ate breakfast and no one ever ever skips lunch! Portion sizes are much smaller especially the drinks, think smaller than small size at your local American fast food restaurant.
You may not like my answers, but these are the facts.
I worked in many many high schools and junior highs with young thin 20 something women
I’ve eaten, partied and travelled with them as well. About the Japanese guy above, they want him to think that is what they eat, but those cake shops, are mostly for middle aged women with money to burn & that’s more of an image statement.
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