Common Japanese Foods

3. Ball-shaped snack made of batter and octopus.
5. Thick noodles served in a soup or stir-fried.
6. Meat, seafood or vegetables cooked into a savory pancake.
8. The staple food that accompanies most dishes.
10. Skewered meat; usually chicken.
11. Thin buckwheat noodles served chilled with a dipping sauce or hot with noodle soup.
12. Battered and deep fried seafood, meat and vegetables.

1. Freshly cut up fish served raw.
2. Crumbed and fried pork cutlet.
4. Usually rolled up in seaweed and enjoyed with soy sauce and/or wasabi.
7. The most common soup noodle. Also available as instant noodles.
9. Gravy-like sauce on rice or noodles usually served with meat, carrots and potatoes.