It’s the same in China! We call it 三菜一汤 (three dishes, one soup)! You guys call it 一汁三菜 which to us means “one juice three dishes” but it essentially means the same thing! It’s so cool whenever I hear something in Japanese that I can recognize in Chinese!
I love that several cultures do this and have found that it's my preferred way of eating when I have the energy to prepare more than one dish. It stops my taste buds from getting bored or overwhelmed as dishes that are strong can be served with soothing or pallet resetting dishes. Having different textures is also great for my autism.
Absolutely, it's awesome. When I was in Vietnam, China and Laos, this was a great way to eat. So much so that I like doing this even with normal Western food.
Hi, I am from India, in the southern side, Kerala. We also have many dishes. Including a some rice, a curry, a vegetable that is cooked in some way(we call upperi), fish fry or sometimes fish is in curry and sometimes this crispy thing called papadam. This is our usual lunch. In Onam a festival celebrated here, it is taken to a brand new level. We have a banana leaf with LOADS of side dishes and rice with sambar, rasam and a lot of other curries. We even have some desert as part of Sadhya (the dish we eat in Onam). It is really amazing
ABC (American-born Chinese), same here. Carbs (probably rice), with a main meat dish and 1-2 veggie dishes. Soup is sometimes a part of the meal, or it could be an additional main dish if it's hearty enough.
ABC here (Cantonese) and agreed except Chinese style is shared using the same plate with much bigger portions 😅 Soup is a must for Cantonese so I have it for dinner everyday since my mom cooks
I can’t help but smile when I see clips of you two interacting with one another and your love and affection for each other. Truly a delightful young couple who are blessed
I am from the Bengal region of India and we too eat multiple dishes in one meal, especially lunch. We have saag (which is a leafy vegetables and have hundreds varieties), then maybe something fried with lentin soup and rice and then leading to the main dish like fish or meat. In the end we would have sweetened curd or some sort of chutney and sweet dish.
Hi, just curious how you guys prepare your food. Is it normal for you to prepare your food like how we would see it in social media where they dont usually use gloves or spoon to do it?
@@zaizai7009ok for the gloves contest, why do we even need gloves when we can wash our hands properly.(PYI: bacteria can be more happy on silicon and plastics surface than human skin) Also we don't stir hot food with our fingers (obviously),so we do use spoons and spatula.
American here, and for my family at least, we do one main dish (topically protien based), with at least 2 side dishes (usually greens for one of them) And happy Thanksgiving! (Well, to those who celebrate)
In Brazil we usually have rice + beans + meat + some type of cooked vegetable + salad and if you're at a restaurant that serves the "Brazilian style food", you'll even get a fried egg 😂 The only thing that you would eat by itself would be like idk, Italian foods like pasta, lasagna (but a lot of people eat it with rice 😅), pizza... Or maybe soup that you'll eat it with bread
Romania too,but we don't eat rice like that We eat the food with sides like raw veggies,pickles ,polenta,bread ,garlic sauce and we add sour cream on some foods and also salad
@@iwasjustfollowingorders8068 It means "Prato Feito"(Ready Plate), which is what you call a "standard full dish", so it will have your usual Brazilian meal: a bit of rice, beans salad, a type of meat and 1 or 2 side dishes. Its a way to sell a full meal for a set price, like a combo in a restaurant.
In Germany if you eat alone people often cook and put it in a bowl or a plate and eat alone on a table or wherever they want like in front of the TV or PC but if you eat with your family you often cook and put the food on the table in multiple cooking pots. Some families may even use bowls for the different ingredients and put them on the table. As soon everyone sits on the table you start to fill up your bowl or plate with all the stuff you want to eat and than enjoy eating. At the end most families would help eachother to clean their own dishes and than the pots and pans from the table, but if you have a dishwasher most stuff would just be put inside there and only the things washed that are not suitable for a dishwasher. As a person living alone I find it a waste to clean my dishes as soon I ate so I wait till I have enough stuff to clean up.
the funny thing about 一汁三菜 , is that there's more unspoken rules like this exist in China and other area in Asia , and the count does matters in some case. like China traditionally like 四菜一湯 (four dish with one soup) , kinda hate or a taboo to see 六菜一湯 (six dish with one soup , which is the last meal for death row prisoner) , 七菜一湯 (7 dishes , for sacrifice) and so , it's just interesting.
Prior to diabetes interrrupting the lives of certain family members, the rule for supper was: A meat (or some source of protein), a starch, two veg, and a leafy green. After the health changes, it became a meat, two or three veg, and a leafy green. This was the rule for dinnertime (6pm). Any other meal, any other time of the day, could be any number of things...but we always had to have at least one meal with a protein, vegetables, and greens. And though my family has shrunk a bit over time due to circumstances...most meals do still contain some sort of protein, at least two vegetables, and a leafy green. And then my mother got diagnosed with celiac disease all the way back in 1991...LONG before the "gluten free craze!" So we had to be extra careful about what starches, and ended up learning how to make a lot of East and Southeast Asian cuisines, because rice, rice flour, rice noodles, all of that became our main go-to starch just for mum's sake. I grew up learning how to make teriyaki from scratch (sauce included, since we needed to find and use tamari soy sauce) long before i ever mastered "the art of chicken-fried (anything)". And despite the fact I technically can eat wheat just fine (the only one left in my family who can), I genuinely know more about cooking with bean flours, rice flours, tapioca flour, corn flour, et cetera, than I do about how to work with wheat flour and so forth.
In Germany it is the same, fish or meat, vegetables and sort of fiber such as potatoes, pasta, rice, dumplings - at least if you cook the way my grandma and mother did - many younger people use fast food - that's mostly not that balanced 😂
I am a Hungarian and a proper big meal always was soup, main dish, dessert in my childhood. My diet changed a lot since but I am completely unable to eat only 1-2 dishes per meal, I need variety. I can skip soup most of the time (I love it but it doesn't worth the work all the time for me) but I do eat various things for every meal. Nearly all my dishes and ingredients are some kind of more or less fatty protein as that works for me but I do need variety. Whenever I visit a relative, it's meat and veggie soup, meat with side dishes (starch and pickled vegs) and often some dessert as well or at least fruit (fruit can be considered a dessert but it's in the fruit category to me, not in the dessert one. fruit has a special place in my heart and it's good in the start of a meal while we don't do it with desserts). Even school lunches had multiple dishes, I never had just one... Even when I try to eat simply, I just can't. Maybe if it's a smaller meal and a dish that has everything I normally eat :D Like a rich, meaty (3 different kinds) scrambled eggs with sour cream and cheese on top... It's often my first dish and I don't need much else afterwards but I still like to have something else...
I'm from Kurdistan and we have multiple dishes too. You'll always see an entire spread whenever we have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. If our table isn't covered with side dishes and main dishes, than it's not a real Kurdish meal. The table has to be full of options. lol
You guys are very cute. We have veggies or salad side, some sort of carbs(potatoes, rice, pasta, bulgur, quinoa {not that carby}) then or veggies in sauce with meat /fish /tofu, or beans. It's very good for your health to have a little bit of everything. ❤
how do people not know this? this is like the first thing you hear when you learn about japanese dishes. this is like me saying "hey, there's one secret japanese ingredient nobody knows about: soy sauce" XD but it's a great concept
In Italy we do the same. I'm not sure if there's a specific saying, but we call the "stages" of the meal and their respective dishes: 1. Primo (literally "first"), which is some sort of carb 2. Secondo (literally "second"), that would be the main protein of the meal, like a steak 3. Contorno (literally "surrounding"), which is one or more side dishes that consist in vegetables, some fruits (like tomatoes or cucumbers), or sometimes even more carbs (like potatoes)
That's not different from many other cultures. You're just calling them different dishes and putting them physically in many different dishes instead of on one plate. It is very common in the U.S. to have a soup or salad with any meal and one portion with be vegetables, another portion protein, another carbs.
Thank you for teaching me how to add miso after I already added tofu and vegetables. Last time I made it, the soup was bland because the miso didn't disolve.
I’m from America we have a similar concept it’s called the combo meal. You get a burger, a soft drink, and fries often garnished with ketchup. It can also be referred to as one meal all carbs.
In America we usually have multiple dishes for meals (meat, side, vegetable, fruit, dessert). Sometimes you'll have just a all in one casserole, but even that is usually paired with additional sides.
Yeah like it's cool they have a saying about well-balanced meals and everything, but it sounds like she's just describing a meal lmao. I have a ton of Japanese friends who I eat with on the regular and I'm not saying there's nothing to this (they tend to eat more like a few dishes family style IME as opposed to everybody having one big plate), but she's making it sound so exotic when it's really not.
I grew up in japan too, but I currently live in the US. Every meal i prep I do want it balanced, exactly like how ur bf prepares it. Not only it feels nourishing and balanced but the color looks so pretty too ❤
@ryanjohnson4565 what a coincidence I actually just made a veggie curry the other day. I added kabocha, zucchini, squash, carrots, and mushroom (basically the stuff that was going bad in my fridge). Turned out super good. I always have pickles on the side when I eat my curry and with the left over, sometimes I add protein like steak or chicken, or make a curry udon. With curry a common side dish besides pickles would be tamago or salad. Hope that inspires you to make something yummy.
Heyo Pato! Idk which region of China your Chinese side is from, but the soup is a huge thing in Guangdong/Canto culture! Dim sum always gets the most press coverage, but home meals always require the day’s soup which moms will start making the night before or very early morning of and is usually a bone broth. Usually takes 2-3 hours from scratch. If a Chinese restaurant does have a soup on their set menu list, more often than not that means they have a Canto chef in their mix! Northern China does do clear broths as well in fancier establishments nowadays, esp for flower tofu.
She’s half! She’s talked about it a lot I think, at least esp for a Japanese culture UA-camr, she’s made it clear that she’s half Chinese but later moved to Japan.
@meowchabob I'll try to check out more videos on this but honestly haven't heard about it. She should go more in to chinese culture videos I would love to watch that
Same in China. For us, a good family has 四菜一汤。4 dishes 1 soup. It’s very rare to have a one dish meal. Usually it is a combination of meat and veggies. So you can have some greens, some reds (meat) and some white (fish). But greens feel a must have.
Hi! I’m from Emilia, Italy, and asking about food to an Italian person is a dangerous matter, because we LIKE to talk about food XD Traditionally, our main meal of the day is lunch. For lunch we eat pasta, or risotto, or polenta (corn meal). The condiment includes some fat and protein, such as ground meat, cream, butter, mushrooms… Lunch always comes with greated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese to sprinkle on your food, and a piece of bread to “clean the plate” not to waste any sauce (in Italian that’s called “fare la scarpetta” which translates to “make the small shoe”, don’t ask me why). After, you can have some raw vegetables sliced and seasoned with salt, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar. If you are still hungry, this is the time for a piece of cheese or a few nuts. The last course is always fruit. The second meal in order of importance and abundance is dinner. A light dinner has a main course of pasta soup, or minestrone, or bean soup, and you finish with “scarpetta” and some lettuce. A richer dinner has a main protein, either meat, cheese, or eggs, with one or two side dishes of cooked vegetables, beans, or potatoes, and bread. You can finish with fruit and eventually a dessert. Breakfast is small and fast, just some cookies or bread soaked in milk with a little coffee, or a piece of bensone (a plain cake??) with red wine or orange juice. The go to for a Sunday lunch family gathering is gnocco fritto (dough sheets fried in pork fat) or tigelle (small bread-like disks) you fill as you like with charcuterie, cheese, and jam.
Many countries, from all over the globe, every continent, have the concept of multi dish meals on the table at one time. Even those who you may think deal solely in a singular dish being the whole of the meal, tend to have accompaniments. Not unique, just unique in ingredients and presentation. Which is fine.
In France we usually have protein/ carb/ vegetable as a meal and a fruit or yogurt as a desert. We also have a « goûter » which is a 4pm snack to hold us up until dinner. Usually fruits, homemade cakes, biscuits or bread and jam. We cook a lot too and bake often as well. Usually on the weekend or when friends come over, someone will have baked something or bought it in a bakery. But most things are homemade.
Coming in from the PH, as a rice-centric country we also have something like this. Rice and two side dishes (the English word is viand but I only recently learned that's almost never used anywhere else). Side dishes might be one meat and one veggie item, but small eateries do one meat/veggie and one bowl of soup.
In Brazil the main dish most brazilians eat is rice with beans (often made with meat or pork inside), some protein (meat, chicken, fish, eggs...), some type of salad and often farofa (it's made of mandioca and it's fried with bacon or something else. It's like tasty crunchy sand)
And sadly just for a percentage of the public vegetables are common... the rest either don't need them or straight up hate them.... I am not a vegetarian but I need my veggies... otherwise it isn't a complete meal.
@@m.s.3041 Well Potatos are Veggies! But yeah, as a fellow german we also eat veggies as a side or a salad! And there are those famos german "Eintöpfe". A onepot with potatos, carrots, pork and it tastes really good!
I'm Brazilian and in here the standard meal is very balanced, consisting of rice, beans, some protein and salad/ vegetables (not that everyone eats this everyday or in every meal). Being of Japanese descendancy I'm also used to always having vegetables and an overall balanced meal. I've never been on a restrictive diet and I feel like these balanced, non restrictive are the healthiest kind of meals
In Germany we have the same and i would say that m,any countrys have the same. An example potato's + meat + vegetables + soup + beer such dishes you can eat everywhere more or less.
Same in Italy, - antipasti - primo (main course but literally "first course") - carbohydrates - secondo + contorno (second course with side dish) - proteins + fibers - cheese - fruit - coffee + dessert - limoncello/amaro But not everybody goes through all this at every meal.
In the South (US) we also have something called a “meat and three” which is a kind of meat like pork or chicken and then three sides - usually vegetables. And Korean people also eat rice with soup and banchan. And Chinese tables often have a lazy susan and tons of dishes- so lots of cultures do this!
I totally agree! I like a thick tomato soup sometimes called ketchup (probably Italian idk) along with potato rectangles fried and instead of rice we use a carb to coat some chicken in. My mom says it's called chicken vingairs (probably German) Its good and probably healthy
I’ve been to the Middle East several times and usually there I would have hummus with some sort of pita bread, a middle eastern salad with feta cheese, either a red meat or chicken dish that came with pickled veggies and rice.
Rice base, protein dish, vegetable broth is a must (sometimes with fish, meat or shrimp in it), 2 side dishes which are usually tofu, or eggs, or a pickled vegetable. That's a full meal in Vietnam!
In Vietnam, a family meal normally have 3 dishes to eat with rice, one soup, one vegetable dish ( could be stir fried vegies, or teamed/ boiled one, or mixed salad) and a main protein dish. When I first moved to the UK, it is odd to me to eat a burger without any salad in it, or fish and chips, there’s no green 😂
Same in the west - meat and two veg. Some families serve it on shared plates, some plate it up as individual plates. And Chinese - Chinese ususally share the dishes. That is why most Chinese food is in bite sized pieces - so you can grab a piece from the shared plate without needing to cut it.
I think its actually quite rare to have only one dish per meal! Italian food is one of the only ones I can think of. Resturaunts make it seem more common than it is by putting all the parts of a meal on one plate so that different people can eat different things at the same table, but in home cookery many cultures traditionally serve multiple dishes
Norway🇧🇻 we usualy eat proteins like fish, seafood, salmon, pork, lamb, chicken, wild game, whale or what you like. We always have some vegetables with it and potatos/rice/pasta/bread. Its up to you if you wish to plate it or use them seperated in small plates. At party we often have a starter, main and dessert.
In China, when it comes to fried meals, we usually use multiple dishes, too. For instance, we might fry pork meat and parrots together to make the meal double delicious, although we don't intend to attain the nutrition by one meal. But there are more people realizing that it's also beneficial in terms of nutrition. It's really good for both the flavour and the health.
In Indian culture too, the concept of making multiple mains dishes and many side dishes is very common. Almost all people eat atleast one vegetarian meal (no meat or dairy) in a day with rice and vegetables as the main. Daal, or lentils are an integral part of most dishes as vegetarians rely on it for protein. Meat eaters too, usually combine meat with rice and vegetables. For eg, most south Indians have rice with sambar, rasam and curd (i.e, each separately with the rice in 3 courses) and then a common side of two or more types of vegetables, and pickles!
Yeah, it's just that we don't use all of our plates each meal, we put it in like 2/3 at most and gather multiple things in each instead of each ingredients having their own.
This is literally how american eat, they jsut put it all on one plate lol. Main is a protein, side veggies and rice/potatos all after an appetizer (often a soup/salad). Its like the most common meal setup in any restaurant.
American? Cause I'm starting to wonder about Americans these days because we've always eaten this way! But I'm Gen X and we were brought up with the 4 food groups in each meal, until they came up with the weird pyramid food thing. Now everyone is confused and just makes a casserole I guess.
I think this is mostly true for most of Asian countries. In Malaysia we have all different races with all different kind of dishes that represent those races. However the concept in the same ie rice/ bread + multiple dishes that normally consist of vegetables, soup/ stew, something fried, something fermented (sometimes but more commonly for malay dishes such as belacan, budu, cencalok)
so they.... they eat a few different sides with a main carb and a main protein.... thats just a proper meal? instead of some nuggets with mac n cheese bs. thats just a proper meal. im screamingggggg
We have rice/carbs, meat, vegetables, and drinks and lots of talking at meals. Like Gumbo, stuffed mirliton, jambalaya, etc. We have a multicultural food culture in Louisiana that is influenced by German, Italian, Spanish, African, French, Caribbean, Native American, English, Irish, and Vietnamese (many settled in the New Orleans area after the Vietnam War).
Very similar to Bengali meals: there needs to be a veggie dish, a meat/fish dish, and finish off with lentil soup (dhal). Everything to be eaten with rice starting with the veggies, then the meat or fish, and then finish off with dhal.
Vietnamese culture is the same. If we are to have a family meal, at the minimum we have 3 dishes, "canh, mặn, xào" roughly translate to soup, salty, stir fry = a soup dish, salty meat dish, stir fry veggie
I didn't know it's the norm in some cultures to have just one main dish. When i first went to hong kong, what shocked me was when i ordered chicken chop rice in a sauce of your choice, they served only chicken, rice, and the sauce of your choice.
Western cultures used to have more side dishes as normal, not just for holiday meals. Including things like pickles and preserves too, not to mention bread/grain porridges once being as prominent at meal times in the west as rice is in Asia. But in modern times an attitude towards fast and easy has prevailed. To the point that even the definition of fast has gotten shorter and shorter since the 1950s and many people have few or no skills at food preparation if presented with nothing but completely unprocessed ingredients.
I would love to have several meals a day in Japanese style, but find it very time consuming with a full-time job. So I usually try to make 1 dish with all of those included (e.g. Dal, chicken fried rice etc)
It’s the same in China! We call it 三菜一汤 (three dishes, one soup)! You guys call it 一汁三菜 which to us means “one juice three dishes” but it essentially means the same thing! It’s so cool whenever I hear something in Japanese that I can recognize in Chinese!
I came here to add this note too - thank you!
Our family would do a 四菜一汤 (four dishes, 1 soup) 😂 I guess we just have a bigger appetite
Vietnam is the same too, 三菜一汤 or sometimes 四菜
汁 in japanese means soup, actually.
I love that several cultures do this and have found that it's my preferred way of eating when I have the energy to prepare more than one dish. It stops my taste buds from getting bored or overwhelmed as dishes that are strong can be served with soothing or pallet resetting dishes. Having different textures is also great for my autism.
My Chinese roommates do this, it's a lot of cooking and cleaning. They're in the kitchen almost 9 hours a day, it's very annoying.
Absolutely, it's awesome. When I was in Vietnam, China and Laos, this was a great way to eat. So much so that I like doing this even with normal Western food.
He didn’t need to rub that Eggplant like that 😅
Omg! I had to go back and check again 😂
That's the only phallic shape he'll ever going to rub for tonight 😂
He gave it good luck 😂😏
LOL he was rubbing it with salt. It helps get rid of the bitterness. Hard to NOT make it look sexual xD
it's a habit of him.
Hi, I am from India, in the southern side, Kerala. We also have many dishes. Including a some rice, a curry, a vegetable that is cooked in some way(we call upperi), fish fry or sometimes fish is in curry and sometimes this crispy thing called papadam. This is our usual lunch. In Onam a festival celebrated here, it is taken to a brand new level. We have a banana leaf with LOADS of side dishes and rice with sambar, rasam and a lot of other curries. We even have some desert as part of Sadhya (the dish we eat in Onam). It is really amazing
ABC (American-born Chinese), same here.
Carbs (probably rice), with a main meat dish and 1-2 veggie dishes. Soup is sometimes a part of the meal, or it could be an additional main dish if it's hearty enough.
WHITE GIRLY HERE WHO JUST LOVES SPICY EGG RAMEN!
If you are really ABC, you know to shut up and pretend you don't exist.
ABC here (Cantonese) and agreed except Chinese style is shared using the same plate with much bigger portions 😅
Soup is a must for Cantonese so I have it for dinner everyday since my mom cooks
@@cee_el oh for sure. its like a family-style buffet lmao
@@dmhq-administration hey, nothing wrong with a good spicy egg ramen, especially with a soft-boiled egg
I can’t help but smile when I see clips of you two interacting with one another and your love and affection for each other. Truly a delightful young couple who are blessed
I am from the Bengal region of India and we too eat multiple dishes in one meal, especially lunch. We have saag (which is a leafy vegetables and have hundreds varieties), then maybe something fried with lentin soup and rice and then leading to the main dish like fish or meat. In the end we would have sweetened curd or some sort of chutney and sweet dish.
Hi, just curious how you guys prepare your food. Is it normal for you to prepare your food like how we would see it in social media where they dont usually use gloves or spoon to do it?
@@zaizai7009It’s normal for them to prepare it like you see in the video.
@@zaizai7009 We do not use gloves but we do use spoons, spatulas, ladles - whatever is necessary.
@@zaizai7009ok for the gloves contest, why do we even need gloves when we can wash our hands properly.(PYI: bacteria can be more happy on silicon and plastics surface than human skin)
Also we don't stir hot food with our fingers (obviously),so we do use spoons and spatula.
Did I just hear the explanation of… SIDES… for a meal?
American here, and for my family at least, we do one main dish (topically protien based), with at least 2 side dishes (usually greens for one of them)
And happy Thanksgiving! (Well, to those who celebrate)
In Brazil we usually have rice + beans + meat + some type of cooked vegetable + salad and if you're at a restaurant that serves the "Brazilian style food", you'll even get a fried egg 😂
The only thing that you would eat by itself would be like idk, Italian foods like pasta, lasagna (but a lot of people eat it with rice 😅), pizza... Or maybe soup that you'll eat it with bread
ooooh, a PF with a sunny-side egg always hit the spot. And if it comes with a can of guaraná???? Paradise.
Nothing beats a good steak with fries, rice and black beans! Brings back childhood memories for me lol
Romania too,but we don't eat rice like that
We eat the food with sides like raw veggies,pickles ,polenta,bread ,garlic sauce and we add sour cream on some foods and also salad
@@strawbxrrypanic_ that's the first time I see "PF" in the middle of a sentence in English! Lol
I was like "what is a Pee-ef?"
@@iwasjustfollowingorders8068 It means "Prato Feito"(Ready Plate), which is what you call a "standard full dish", so it will have your usual Brazilian meal: a bit of rice, beans salad, a type of meat and 1 or 2 side dishes. Its a way to sell a full meal for a set price, like a combo in a restaurant.
It’s called having different courses as part of your meal.
Aren't courses done one by one? Like a starter, a main course, etc.?
Thank you so much for your explaining Ichiju Sansai (一汁三菜 いちじゅうさんさい)🍚
In Germany if you eat alone people often cook and put it in a bowl or a plate and eat alone on a table or wherever they want like in front of the TV or PC but if you eat with your family you often cook and put the food on the table in multiple cooking pots. Some families may even use bowls for the different ingredients and put them on the table. As soon everyone sits on the table you start to fill up your bowl or plate with all the stuff you want to eat and than enjoy eating. At the end most families would help eachother to clean their own dishes and than the pots and pans from the table, but if you have a dishwasher most stuff would just be put inside there and only the things washed that are not suitable for a dishwasher. As a person living alone I find it a waste to clean my dishes as soon I ate so I wait till I have enough stuff to clean up.
While looking at comments... i saw all over the world people are here. This channel was global channel ;;; really every world people are here 😮😮
I am practicing listening skill and I could listen to this at third trial....
Food lovers, all over the world, love food from all over the world ^_^
really really thank you for introducing Japanese culture and helping me practice listening skii❤❤❤
Really working that eggplant
the funny thing about 一汁三菜 , is that there's more unspoken rules like this exist in China and other area in Asia , and the count does matters in some case.
like China traditionally like 四菜一湯 (four dish with one soup) , kinda hate or a taboo to see 六菜一湯 (six dish with one soup , which is the last meal for death row prisoner) , 七菜一湯 (7 dishes , for sacrifice) and so , it's just interesting.
What other dishes
Three dish one soup is bad luck in China. It’s either 2 or 4 dishes.
@@Alexmlm-n6x That's so dumb
Ohhh I didn’t know… my own culture bro… I am ashamed
Prior to diabetes interrrupting the lives of certain family members, the rule for supper was: A meat (or some source of protein), a starch, two veg, and a leafy green. After the health changes, it became a meat, two or three veg, and a leafy green. This was the rule for dinnertime (6pm). Any other meal, any other time of the day, could be any number of things...but we always had to have at least one meal with a protein, vegetables, and greens. And though my family has shrunk a bit over time due to circumstances...most meals do still contain some sort of protein, at least two vegetables, and a leafy green.
And then my mother got diagnosed with celiac disease all the way back in 1991...LONG before the "gluten free craze!" So we had to be extra careful about what starches, and ended up learning how to make a lot of East and Southeast Asian cuisines, because rice, rice flour, rice noodles, all of that became our main go-to starch just for mum's sake. I grew up learning how to make teriyaki from scratch (sauce included, since we needed to find and use tamari soy sauce) long before i ever mastered "the art of chicken-fried (anything)". And despite the fact I technically can eat wheat just fine (the only one left in my family who can), I genuinely know more about cooking with bean flours, rice flours, tapioca flour, corn flour, et cetera, than I do about how to work with wheat flour and so forth.
My ADHD brain and sensory processing issues view this way of eating as heaven lol. Thanks for the education!
In Germany it is the same, fish or meat, vegetables and sort of fiber such as potatoes, pasta, rice, dumplings - at least if you cook the way my grandma and mother did - many younger people use fast food - that's mostly not that balanced 😂
in Australia we wrap a cheap sausage in white bread with tomato sauce (ketchup).
I love this food channel 😂😂
Food channels are pretty good. Reminds me of eating food. Which is even better
I am a Hungarian and a proper big meal always was soup, main dish, dessert in my childhood. My diet changed a lot since but I am completely unable to eat only 1-2 dishes per meal, I need variety. I can skip soup most of the time (I love it but it doesn't worth the work all the time for me) but I do eat various things for every meal. Nearly all my dishes and ingredients are some kind of more or less fatty protein as that works for me but I do need variety.
Whenever I visit a relative, it's meat and veggie soup, meat with side dishes (starch and pickled vegs) and often some dessert as well or at least fruit (fruit can be considered a dessert but it's in the fruit category to me, not in the dessert one. fruit has a special place in my heart and it's good in the start of a meal while we don't do it with desserts). Even school lunches had multiple dishes, I never had just one... Even when I try to eat simply, I just can't. Maybe if it's a smaller meal and a dish that has everything I normally eat :D Like a rich, meaty (3 different kinds) scrambled eggs with sour cream and cheese on top... It's often my first dish and I don't need much else afterwards but I still like to have something else...
Same in India
It's mainly Rice or Roti with 2-3 other side dishes
I'm from Kurdistan and we have multiple dishes too. You'll always see an entire spread whenever we have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. If our table isn't covered with side dishes and main dishes, than it's not a real Kurdish meal. The table has to be full of options. lol
Vietnamese food is all about balance, you have your carb (rice or noodles), protein (chicken, beef, pork, fish etc), then you have your veggies.
You guys are very cute. We have veggies or salad side, some sort of carbs(potatoes, rice, pasta, bulgur, quinoa {not that carby}) then or veggies in sauce with meat /fish /tofu, or beans. It's very good for your health to have a little bit of everything. ❤
how do people not know this? this is like the first thing you hear when you learn about japanese dishes.
this is like me saying "hey, there's one secret japanese ingredient nobody knows about: soy sauce" XD
but it's a great concept
It's refreshing to see another creator talking about real stuff in Japan. ❤
In Italy we do the same. I'm not sure if there's a specific saying, but we call the "stages" of the meal and their respective dishes:
1. Primo (literally "first"), which is some sort of carb
2. Secondo (literally "second"), that would be the main protein of the meal, like a steak
3. Contorno (literally "surrounding"), which is one or more side dishes that consist in vegetables, some fruits (like tomatoes or cucumbers), or sometimes even more carbs (like potatoes)
That's not different from many other cultures. You're just calling them different dishes and putting them physically in many different dishes instead of on one plate. It is very common in the U.S. to have a soup or salad with any meal and one portion with be vegetables, another portion protein, another carbs.
Thank you for teaching me how to add miso after I already added tofu and vegetables. Last time I made it, the soup was bland because the miso didn't disolve.
I’m from America we have a similar concept it’s called the combo meal. You get a burger, a soft drink, and fries often garnished with ketchup. It can also be referred to as one meal all carbs.
In America we usually have multiple dishes for meals (meat, side, vegetable, fruit, dessert). Sometimes you'll have just a all in one casserole, but even that is usually paired with additional sides.
Yeah like it's cool they have a saying about well-balanced meals and everything, but it sounds like she's just describing a meal lmao. I have a ton of Japanese friends who I eat with on the regular and I'm not saying there's nothing to this (they tend to eat more like a few dishes family style IME as opposed to everybody having one big plate), but she's making it sound so exotic when it's really not.
Same in Italy. Carbs, then proteins (with vegetables), fruits. I guess most countries with some respect for food and traditions are like this.
I grew up in japan too, but I currently live in the US. Every meal i prep I do want it balanced, exactly like how ur bf prepares it. Not only it feels nourishing and balanced but the color looks so pretty too ❤
What about a big pot of kabocha curry? You need multiple dishes with that? Maybe just that with some rice and pickled veggies is okay?
@ryanjohnson4565 what a coincidence I actually just made a veggie curry the other day. I added kabocha, zucchini, squash, carrots, and mushroom (basically the stuff that was going bad in my fridge). Turned out super good. I always have pickles on the side when I eat my curry and with the left over, sometimes I add protein like steak or chicken, or make a curry udon. With curry a common side dish besides pickles would be tamago or salad. Hope that inspires you to make something yummy.
@@ryanjohnson4565 oh also, I do always have a side of miso soup with most of my dishes I eat at home.
Great content on this marvelous video!
Heyo Pato! Idk which region of China your Chinese side is from, but the soup is a huge thing in Guangdong/Canto culture! Dim sum always gets the most press coverage, but home meals always require the day’s soup which moms will start making the night before or very early morning of and is usually a bone broth. Usually takes 2-3 hours from scratch. If a Chinese restaurant does have a soup on their set menu list, more often than not that means they have a Canto chef in their mix! Northern China does do clear broths as well in fancier establishments nowadays, esp for flower tofu.
She's chinese? She never talks about that side of her
She’s half! She’s talked about it a lot I think, at least esp for a Japanese culture UA-camr, she’s made it clear that she’s half Chinese but later moved to Japan.
@meowchabob I'll try to check out more videos on this but honestly haven't heard about it. She should go more in to chinese culture videos I would love to watch that
France : apéritif, entrées, plat et accompagnements, fromages et salade, desserts.
Same in China. For us, a good family has 四菜一汤。4 dishes 1 soup. It’s very rare to have a one dish meal. Usually it is a combination of meat and veggies. So you can have some greens, some reds (meat) and some white (fish). But greens feel a must have.
Hi! I’m from Emilia, Italy, and asking about food to an Italian person is a dangerous matter, because we LIKE to talk about food XD
Traditionally, our main meal of the day is lunch. For lunch we eat pasta, or risotto, or polenta (corn meal). The condiment includes some fat and protein, such as ground meat, cream, butter, mushrooms… Lunch always comes with greated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese to sprinkle on your food, and a piece of bread to “clean the plate” not to waste any sauce (in Italian that’s called “fare la scarpetta” which translates to “make the small shoe”, don’t ask me why). After, you can have some raw vegetables sliced and seasoned with salt, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar. If you are still hungry, this is the time for a piece of cheese or a few nuts. The last course is always fruit.
The second meal in order of importance and abundance is dinner. A light dinner has a main course of pasta soup, or minestrone, or bean soup, and you finish with “scarpetta” and some lettuce. A richer dinner has a main protein, either meat, cheese, or eggs, with one or two side dishes of cooked vegetables, beans, or potatoes, and bread. You can finish with fruit and eventually a dessert.
Breakfast is small and fast, just some cookies or bread soaked in milk with a little coffee, or a piece of bensone (a plain cake??) with red wine or orange juice.
The go to for a Sunday lunch family gathering is gnocco fritto (dough sheets fried in pork fat) or tigelle (small bread-like disks) you fill as you like with charcuterie, cheese, and jam.
Wow, this was such an interesting read - thanks for sharing! “Scarpetta” has always been the favorite part of an Italian meal for me!
Id say thats the norm in most parts of the world
You two are adorable I love this.
you look great with your glasses on! you should wear them more often :)
Many countries, from all over the globe, every continent, have the concept of multi dish meals on the table at one time. Even those who you may think deal solely in a singular dish being the whole of the meal, tend to have accompaniments. Not unique, just unique in ingredients and presentation. Which is fine.
It makes perfect sense, a lovely download.
In France we usually have protein/ carb/ vegetable as a meal and a fruit or yogurt as a desert. We also have a « goûter » which is a 4pm snack to hold us up until dinner. Usually fruits, homemade cakes, biscuits or bread and jam.
We cook a lot too and bake often as well.
Usually on the weekend or when friends come over, someone will have baked something or bought it in a bakery. But most things are homemade.
I completely agree. I used to live in Japan and I love how they cook meals each time. It’s more balance.❤
Coming in from the PH, as a rice-centric country we also have something like this. Rice and two side dishes (the English word is viand but I only recently learned that's almost never used anywhere else). Side dishes might be one meat and one veggie item, but small eateries do one meat/veggie and one bowl of soup.
In Brazil the main dish most brazilians eat is rice with beans (often made with meat or pork inside), some protein (meat, chicken, fish, eggs...), some type of salad and often farofa (it's made of mandioca and it's fried with bacon or something else. It's like tasty crunchy sand)
German.
Pork (in every kind of Form) with Potato (in every kind of Form) with some Brownsauce.
Auf den Punkt gebracht. 😅
Manchmal esse ich auch Geflügel. 😂
And sadly just for a percentage of the public vegetables are common... the rest either don't need them or straight up hate them.... I am not a vegetarian but I need my veggies... otherwise it isn't a complete meal.
@@m.s.3041 Well Potatos are Veggies!
But yeah, as a fellow german we also eat veggies as a side or a salad! And there are those famos german "Eintöpfe". A onepot with potatos, carrots, pork and it tastes really good!
@@justus8675 you know what I mean... potatoes are a filling side dish and in this circumstance not seen as vegetable side dish...
And bread. I know you like your bread (and your bread is delicious!!!)
I'm Brazilian and in here the standard meal is very balanced, consisting of rice, beans, some protein and salad/ vegetables (not that everyone eats this everyday or in every meal). Being of Japanese descendancy I'm also used to always having vegetables and an overall balanced meal. I've never been on a restrictive diet and I feel like these balanced, non restrictive are the healthiest kind of meals
In Germany we have the same and i would say that m,any countrys have the same. An example potato's + meat + vegetables + soup + beer such dishes you can eat everywhere more or less.
I really adopted this from time living with Chinese girls and then travelling to China. I love having multiple dishes it’s very cozy
In Sri Lanka it’s the same! Maybe skip out the soup but the rest is same.
Same in Italy,
- antipasti
- primo (main course but literally "first course") - carbohydrates
- secondo + contorno (second course with side dish) - proteins + fibers
- cheese
- fruit
- coffee + dessert
- limoncello/amaro
But not everybody goes through all this at every meal.
In the South (US) we also have something called a “meat and three” which is a kind of meat like pork or chicken and then three sides - usually vegetables.
And Korean people also eat rice with soup and banchan.
And Chinese tables often have a lazy susan and tons of dishes- so lots of cultures do this!
I totally agree! I like a thick tomato soup sometimes called ketchup (probably Italian idk) along with potato rectangles fried and instead of rice we use a carb to coat some chicken in. My mom says it's called chicken vingairs (probably German)
Its good and probably healthy
That pork and eggplant miso stirfry sounds amazing
He looks like 12, she looks like his mom.
I’ve been to the Middle East several times and usually there I would have hummus with some sort of pita bread, a middle eastern salad with feta cheese, either a red meat or chicken dish that came with pickled veggies and rice.
Rice base, protein dish, vegetable broth is a must (sometimes with fish, meat or shrimp in it), 2 side dishes which are usually tofu, or eggs, or a pickled vegetable. That's a full meal in Vietnam!
In Vietnam, a family meal normally have 3 dishes to eat with rice, one soup, one vegetable dish ( could be stir fried vegies, or teamed/ boiled one, or mixed salad) and a main protein dish. When I first moved to the UK, it is odd to me to eat a burger without any salad in it, or fish and chips, there’s no green 😂
wow ~ a Japanese man cooking. he's rare!
I promise myself that once I have my own place I will eat good food and well balance meal! Love to know more about these easy dishes to make
Same in the west - meat and two veg. Some families serve it on shared plates, some plate it up as individual plates.
And Chinese - Chinese ususally share the dishes. That is why most Chinese food is in bite sized pieces - so you can grab a piece from the shared plate without needing to cut it.
I think its actually quite rare to have only one dish per meal! Italian food is one of the only ones I can think of. Resturaunts make it seem more common than it is by putting all the parts of a meal on one plate so that different people can eat different things at the same table, but in home cookery many cultures traditionally serve multiple dishes
Norway🇧🇻 we usualy eat proteins like fish, seafood, salmon, pork, lamb, chicken, wild game, whale or what you like. We always have some vegetables with it and potatos/rice/pasta/bread. Its up to you if you wish to plate it or use them seperated in small plates. At party we often have a starter, main and dessert.
Hi I love your videos and once I saw you at Shibuya at December 1 I was drinking coffee with my friend❤
In China, when it comes to fried meals, we usually use multiple dishes, too. For instance, we might fry pork meat and parrots together to make the meal double delicious, although we don't intend to attain the nutrition by one meal. But there are more people realizing that it's also beneficial in terms of nutrition. It's really good for both the flavour and the health.
Man at this point you gotta propose to him. It'd be a great honor
In Indian culture too, the concept of making multiple mains dishes and many side dishes is very common. Almost all people eat atleast one vegetarian meal (no meat or dairy) in a day with rice and vegetables as the main. Daal, or lentils are an integral part of most dishes as vegetarians rely on it for protein. Meat eaters too, usually combine meat with rice and vegetables.
For eg, most south Indians have rice with sambar, rasam and curd (i.e, each separately with the rice in 3 courses) and then a common side of two or more types of vegetables, and pickles!
I feel like this is how it is in most cultures that arent american 😭😭
Yeah, it's just that we don't use all of our plates each meal, we put it in like 2/3 at most and gather multiple things in each instead of each ingredients having their own.
This is literally how american eat, they jsut put it all on one plate lol. Main is a protein, side veggies and rice/potatos all after an appetizer (often a soup/salad). Its like the most common meal setup in any restaurant.
@@theone6152Exactly. I don't know why this video tries to make it a Japanese thing.
*me looking at my steak with side veggies and rice after having my sppetizer salad*
"Omg, we're Japanese!"
American? Cause I'm starting to wonder about Americans these days because we've always eaten this way! But I'm Gen X and we were brought up with the 4 food groups in each meal, until they came up with the weird pyramid food thing. Now everyone is confused and just makes a casserole I guess.
That looks so good!
In Hong Kong, there is 三餸一湯 which literally means 3 dishes 1 soup word for word.
We have sambar rice, rasam rice, curd rice, poriyal, aviyal, some form of protein, pickle. And sweet at last . Im from southern India 🎉
I have been into Japanese food lately. It's so light and flavorful.
I think this is mostly true for most of Asian countries. In Malaysia we have all different races with all different kind of dishes that represent those races. However the concept in the same ie rice/ bread + multiple dishes that normally consist of vegetables, soup/ stew, something fried, something fermented (sometimes but more commonly for malay dishes such as belacan, budu, cencalok)
Display is so beautiful. I’m not saying Idd eat it. But it looks beautiful.
All sounds so delicious 😋!!
so they.... they eat a few different sides with a main carb and a main protein.... thats just a proper meal? instead of some nuggets with mac n cheese bs. thats just a proper meal. im screamingggggg
In the Philippines, we eat most things with rice, from hotdogs, fried chicken, and even spaghetti (i know a lot of people do this!) :)
We have rice/carbs, meat, vegetables, and drinks and lots of talking at meals. Like Gumbo, stuffed mirliton, jambalaya, etc. We have a multicultural food culture in Louisiana that is influenced by German, Italian, Spanish, African, French, Caribbean, Native American, English, Irish, and Vietnamese (many settled in the New Orleans area after the Vietnam War).
Very similar to Bengali meals: there needs to be a veggie dish, a meat/fish dish, and finish off with lentil soup (dhal). Everything to be eaten with rice starting with the veggies, then the meat or fish, and then finish off with dhal.
Vietnamese culture is the same. If we are to have a family meal, at the minimum we have 3 dishes, "canh, mặn, xào" roughly translate to soup, salty, stir fry = a soup dish, salty meat dish, stir fry veggie
I didn't know it's the norm in some cultures to have just one main dish. When i first went to hong kong, what shocked me was when i ordered chicken chop rice in a sauce of your choice, they served only chicken, rice, and the sauce of your choice.
Girl, where have you been hiding. It's not just the Japanese who have multiple dishes in every meal. LOL!!!
Same in Turkish culture. We usually have soup, a main course, something like rice, salad etc.
My family is from Israel and a favorite recipe is falafel with hummus fish sauce with some mashed bitter melon and yams
Yeah and we usually eat it in a way that is called 三角食べ(you eat one bite out of each dish in a triangle pattern)
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You might do that, but most Japanese don't.
@@caindarin9665 Oh I don’t too but I’m just talking about Japanese culture😅
You are so fortunate.
the Chinese also have 1 soup 3 dishes, but we call it 3 dishes 1soup
Try Sri Lankan Rice and Curry
Western cultures used to have more side dishes as normal, not just for holiday meals. Including things like pickles and preserves too, not to mention bread/grain porridges once being as prominent at meal times in the west as rice is in Asia.
But in modern times an attitude towards fast and easy has prevailed. To the point that even the definition of fast has gotten shorter and shorter since the 1950s and many people have few or no skills at food preparation if presented with nothing but completely unprocessed ingredients.
Same in most of Asia I think. Or maybe Chinese influenced ones. Including Vietnam
I would love to have several meals a day in Japanese style, but find it very time consuming with a full-time job. So I usually try to make 1 dish with all of those included (e.g. Dal, chicken fried rice etc)
multiple dishes in one meal not being the norm? is this a joke i'm too spanish to understand?
Wow, the Miso-trick with the little strainer is cool! Never seen that before.
I don't get it. Why is it unusual to have one meat and two or three side dishes?