a main dish with rice, soup, and pickles. Home cooking, tempura, tonkatsu, and unagi are usually offered this way. Teishoku sometimes is offered in three grades: nami (regular), jo (choice), and tokujo (deluxe).
Tsumami
Starters and side dishes.
morokyu
Cold cucumber served with a thick miso sauce.
itawasa
Sliced fish cake, served with soy sauce (add wasabi—green horseradish, if you wish).
sashimi
Raw fish
kinpira
Fried burdock root and carrots in a sauce seasoned with soy, sugar, and red pepper.
hijiki
Seaweed simmered in a soy and sugar sauce.
hiyayakko
Cold tofu served with chopped leeks, grated ginger, and soy sauce.
Gohan
Rice
onigiri
Rice balls (often triangular in shape) wrapped in dried seaweed. The center will be filled with ume (pickled sour plum), saké (salmon), or tarako (cooked codfish roe).
yaki-onigiri
Grilled onigiri seasoned with soy sauce.
ochazuke
A bowl of rice with tea or sometimes fish stock poured over it. Comes with saké, tsukemono (pickles), or nori (dried seaweed).
kamameshi
Steamed and seasoned rice with vegetables and a choice of chicken, crab, salmon, etc.
zosui
Rice that has been boiled in a seasoned soup, with kani (crab), kaki (oysters), egg, and various vegetables mixed in.
Shiru
Soup, usually with chopped leeks, bean curd, and seaweed.
misoshiru
Made with yellow (white) or brown (red) fermented soybean paste.
osuimono
Clear soup made with dried bonito flakes and konbu (seaweed.)
Yakimono
Fried or grilled foods.
robata-yaki
Usually, food cooked over an open grill.
sumibi-yaki
Food grilled over a charcoal hearth.
teppan-yaki
Food grilled over a flat grill.
ishi-yaki
Food cooked on hot stones.
shio-yaki
A grilling method using salt.
teriyaki
A grilling method for meat or fish that has been marinated and basted with sweet sauce.
Nimono
Usually fish or vegetables that have been boiled with soy sauce, sugar, and saké.
Mushimono
Foods that have been steamed.
chawan-mushi
Steamed egg with fish stock, similar to a custard.
-don (or -donburi)
Don means a pottery bowl, and by association any meal served in a bowl with rice. These are common lunch meals: tendon (tempura on rice) or oyako-donburi (chicken and egg on rice).
-ju
Means food served in a lacquered box, usually a small box with rice and something on top, such as tenju (tempura on rice).
