Gov't releases English guidebook on Japanese local cuisines

Wednesday 10th June, 06:19 AM JST

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regev at 03:28 PM JST - 10th June

Save the forests: put it online.
IvanCoughalot at 10:17 PM JST - 10th June

Glad to see my tax money well spent. Might do better getting people to visit these places if there was ever any English information once you get there. You can only sit in hot water for so long, if you haven't been indoctrinated into believing it's something spiritual to sit in the nude, scalding your plums off with a bunch of naked, sweating old blokes.
Sarge at 11:32 PM JST - 10th June

"enjoy these slimy tasty beans"

Those beans are not tasty!

That guidebook had better have warnings about natto, fugu and mayonnaise on delivery pizza.
mrhog123 at 12:15 AM JST - 11th June

All I want is all of the okkomiyake recipies.
JohnBecker at 01:13 AM JST - 11th June

Okonomiyake... food of the gods, I tells ya.... Love that stuff!
toguro at 01:19 AM JST - 11th June

Natto is actually pretty good, once you'v aquired the taste for it. But it is that, an aquired taste.
Fadamor at 04:59 AM JST - 11th June

They've got robots making the okonomiyake... how good can it be? http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20090610a1.html
Sarge at 09:33 AM JST - 11th June

"Natto is... an acquired taste"

I ain't gonna ever acquire that taste.
amerijap at 09:40 AM JST - 11th June

"Natto is... an acquired taste"

You can't taste it in raw. It's super yucky without a soy sauce.
ultradodgy at 04:24 PM JST - 11th June

Mmmmmmmmm... Wanko Soba: Japan's tasty secret.

Something tells me the Brit tourists will find that amusing.
nikoniko at 06:55 PM JST - 13th June

yes but ppl have to try nattou!!

"wanko" soba ... o yah, the name alone will get ppl to eat it >.> hah

fadamor-yup .. the robots that are being created to (quoting news) "take on the jobs replacing humans" ... o yes, that helps the economy SO much! (gao)
IfeelImust at 02:49 PM JST - 14th June

I like Nattou and blue cheese or hung pheasant. I doubt the Japanese would appreciate a translation of the latter two either. Nearly wrote well hung pheasant! LOL.
Harry_Gatto at 01:39 PM JST - 15th June

Natto for the appetiser and Kusaiya for the main - wonderful!
yabits at 11:32 PM JST - 15th June

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Tuesday released an English guidebook on local cuisines as part of efforts to promote tourism in Japan’s countryside. Ten thousand copies of the guidebook titled ‘‘Japan’s Tasty Secrets’’ will be given out at Narita, Chubu and Kansai international airports as well as at travel fairs hosted in Asia, Europe and the United States, the ministry said.

We are living in the age of the Internet. Why not an electronic copy that can be downloaded from a website?
realist at 06:00 PM JST - 16th June

I ate some wanko soba once, and after that I took out some Life Insurance with the Kinki Insurance company!! Japan`s tasty secrets? What exactly is "secret" about them? Some of the "secrets" might be better remaining just that. Especially that vile natto stuff, and the equally nauseating chawan mushi - yuk.