Food / Style
Yoshoku — Japanese Western food
洋食 ようしょく
The Meiji-era invention of Western dishes for Japanese tastes: omurice (an omelette over ketchup rice), hayashi rice, croquettes, hamburger steak with demi-glace, Napolitan spaghetti in ketchup. Ginza and Nihonbashi's yoshoku houses have been serving them since the 1890s in rooms with white tablecloths; it is comfort food with a history, and children love it.
- How to order
- "Omurice" or the "lunch set"; the old houses serve a "grand menu" of everything if you are hungry.
- Price band
- ¥¥
- Where
- Ginza, Nihonbashi, Asakusa
The words to say are on the phrases page.