BREAKFAST ,

– Japanese tea
– banana
– natto (fermented soybeans)
– white rice
– raw eggs

▼He says, “I really love natto, so I often eat it together with raw eggs and rice!”

▼”First I mix the eggs with the rice.”

▼”Then I add the natto and mix that.”

▼”It’s highly nutritious and really delicious!”

Wow. So far, so Japanese! We doubt natto would be at the top of the list for everyone, though. What else is 

on the menu?

– fried pork with ginger
– miso soup
– white rice

Fried pork for breakfast! Very nice.

– white rice
– natto
– vegetable soup


Apparently, our fourth respondent has three different breakfasts that he often eats:
 1) Natto and a fried egg on rice with miso soup.






2) Oyakodon (literally meaning “parent child bowl”, this is chicken and eggs on rice) with miso soup




3) Healthy Japanese-style full course breakfast (white rice, natto, fried egg, cold tofu and miso soup)



These guys don’t do things by halves, do they? Certainly beats our wedge of toast and a spoonful of peanut butter while trying to find a matching pair of socks…

– white rice
– miso soup (with burdock root, carrots, and other leftover vegetables)
– sardines
– rolled scramble egg
– bacon
– sausage


OK, now we’re really hungry!

– rice with salted wakame (a type of seaweed)
– miso soup (sardine broth with Japanese yams, carrots, and cabbage)
– boiled fish (usually a threadsail filefish) with soy sauce


– convenience store bread
– convenience store coffee

▼”I usually have bread and coffee from the convenience store.”

OK. now we’re on familiar ground. It does look awfully lonely, though…

– toast (homemade bread)
– marmalade (homemade)
– mandarin orange
– yogurt (Activia)
– coffee

Extra points for the homemade bread!

– coffee with lots of sugar and milk
– yogurt with a banana in it
– mandarin orange

▼“I can’t start my mornings without coffee. And I usually have yogurt and a banana but if there are other cheap fruits at the store, like apples or persimmons, I will sometimes have those. My breakfast is really simple.”

– buttered toast
– tuna salad
– yogurt (with blueberry jam)
– corn soup


– vegetable juice (Japanese mustard spinach, celery, carrot, banana, pineapple, ginger)

▼“Every morning, I only drink vegetable juice. This morning I made it with the fruits and vegetables mentioned above, but I make it with whatever I have in the fridge.”

OK, now we feel unhealthy.

– white rice
– tofu, fried tofu and wakame miso soup
– chicken fried with curry spices
– Japanese mustard spinach, egg and daikon with soy and vinegar

Yup, that’d get us out of bed too.

– ozoni (soup with mochi)
– iyokan (type of Japanese citrus fruit)
– green tea



– soy milk

▼“Among Japanese woman, there is a popular diet where you drink soy milk in the morning or evening for 1-2 weeks before your cycle starts, and you will lose weight after it finishes.”

– fried fish
– avocado and natto
– double daikon miso soup (daikon, thinly sliced and dried daikon, fried tofu)
– white rice

Simple and classic, but with an unusual twist on the natto.



– hydrogen water and enzymes (the pink bottle is the enzymes)

Hopefully she’s having a big lunch…


– English muffin with butter
– strawberry yogurt
– coffee
– arugula
– pickled peppers
– scrambled eggs



– toast
– cabbage cooked in butter
– sausage
– fried egg
– yogurt
– coffee


– tanuki udon (udon with flakes of deep-fried tempura batter)


Yup, noodles for breakfast!

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– bread with cream cheese
– omelet with spinach
– mandarin orange
– black tea




After looking at so many delicious breakfasts, there are a couple of things that become clear: miso soup and natto are still very popular in the morning in Japan, and the Japanese have done a seriously impressive job of incorporating other cultures’ foods into their regular Japanese-style diet. Some of these breakfasts look seriously tasty.