Japanese Traditional Cooking - Blog Post #3

In Japan, both the current and old traditional food culture use rice in the many different Japanese cuisines. The food culture in Japan has been centered around rice ever since wet rice cultivation was introduced in Japan, more than 2,000 years ago.

One very popular dish in Japan involving rice is Japanese shrimp and vegetables meal. Along with the shrimp and rice, this meal contains rice, soy sauce, mirin, and sesame oil. It takes about 15 minutes to create this meal and is a very common meal in today's Japanese food culture.

SOURCES

1.) http://web-japan.org/factsheet/en/pdf/36JapFoodCulture.pdf
2.) http://www.food.com/recipe/japanese-rice-with-shrimp-and-vegetables-166879