Japanese “Japanese-style” meals usually consist of fish, rice, miso soup, and 2-3 side dishes. Breakfast is usually the lightest meal of the day so sometimes w

Japanese “Japanese-style” meals usually consist of fish, rice, miso soup, and 2-3 side dishes. Breakfast is usually the lightest meal of the day so sometimes we will have just rice and miso soup and pickles or natto. Japanese “western” breakfast is toast and a Japanese-style fried egg (medamayaki). Maybe bacon too. Most people I know alternate between Japanese-style Japanese, western (fried cutlets, bread, pasta, meat sauces), and Chinese (fried rice, gyoza, ramen, mabo tofu) or Korean (kimchi, yakiniku) for lunch and dinner. There are about 10-20 dishes that pretty much every Japanese person who can cook learns to cook.