Category: Food

Sapporo Beer Yakiniku

The origins of this company is in Sapporo, Hokkaido during the Meiji period, where the Hokkaido Development Commission (Kaitakushi) established many businesses. Seibei Nakagawa, a German-trained brewer, became the first brewmaster of the Kaitakushi Brewery in June 1876, and the first Sapporo Lager was produced at that time. Privatized in 1886, the Sapporo brewery became the centerpiece for the Sapporo Beer Company.

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Yakiniku (焼き肉 or 焼肉), meaning “grilled meat”, is a Japanese language term which, in its broadest sense, refers to a range of grilled meat dishes, including steak.

Fujiya Scotch Cake

Fujiya Food Service Co., Ltd. is a nationwide chain of confectionery stores in Japan. Its first shop was founded in 1910 in Yokohama.

In Japan, Christmas cake, traditionally eaten on Christmas Eve, is simply a sponge cake, frosted with whipped cream, decorated with strawberries, and usually topped with Christmas chocolates or other seasonal fruit.

Mos Burger Barbeque Foccacia

MOS Burger, from the initial letters of “Mountain Ocean Sun”, is a fast-food restaurant chain that originated in Japan. It is now the second largest fast-food franchise in Japan after McDonald’s, and owns numerous overseas outlets over East Asia, including Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Hawaii and Hong Kong. It is also the name of the standard hamburger offered by the restaurant, being its first product when the restaurant was founded in 1972.

Focaccia is a flat bread topped with spices and other products, which is related to modern pizza. The basic recipe is thought by some to have originated with the Etruscans or ancient Greeks, but nowadays it is particularly known as a delicacy of the Ligurian cuisine; the best “focaccia col formaggio” (focaccia with cheese) is made in Recco, near Genoa.