Japan Eats！ An Explorer’s Guide to Japanese Food

和食のメニューや食事マナーがわかる英語絵本

日本のグルメは海外での評判がよく、訪日外国人観光客の楽しみのひとつです。本書『Japan Eats!』は、代表的な和食メニューと、レストランや旅館での基本的な食事のマナーを紹介する絵本です。すし、ラーメン、天ぷら、鍋などのメニュー、箸の持ち方や醤油の使い方などのマナーを、イラストとユーモア溢れるコメントで紹介します。また、相撲茶屋の弁当、駅弁、お祭りの屋台、おせち料理など、イベントや季節にあったメニューについても、詳しく説明されています。
※本書は『Squeamish about Sushi』の改訂新版です。

For first-time visitors and seasoned gourmets alike, Japan Eats! is an entertaining guide to the pleasures and pitfalls of dining in Japan?with hilarious insights and tips not found in other books. Whether it’s the proper technique for holding chopsticks or the etiquette of slurping soup, author Betty Reynolds reassures the bewildered and includes mini-lessons on how to read the curtains at the entrance, the menus on the wall, and even the signs on the bathroom doors!

What are uni sea urchins and how do you eat them? What are "dancing shrimp"? What is the difference between tonkatsu and takoyaki? Do you pick them up with your fingers? Which sauce to use? And just what is in that sauce? From world-famous sushi to fatally attractive fugu, it’s all explained clearly and humorously in this sketchbook filled with charming full-color illustrations and insightful texts.

So don’t be intimidated?dive in! You are bound to have endless food adventures in Japan. This book shows you how.